CORINTH — The parks board and the City Council will meet jointly Tuesday night to decide the future of a disc golf course built last year in Corinth Community Park using volunteer labor and donations.

The city staff will present the costs associated with two options — shutting the course down or finishing the course for play — during a workshop session that begins at 7 p.m., according to interim City Manager Jim Berzina.

“They’ll have to decide from there,” Berzina said.

City leaders decided during their regular meeting Thursday to allow park staff, for safety considerations, to cut any remaining tree stumps to the ground.

Paul Leslie, director of the parks, said that crews wanted to do the work now, before the spring growing season. He also asked for a $1,000 allocation to rent a chipper so that crews could also process the underbrush that had been removed and left in piles.

Last month, the parks board voted to pull the plug on the course and restore the area. Work on the nine-hole course wasn’t finished, but it was far enough along that disc golfers were playing there.

Some residents claimed that the project had damaged the existing multiuse trail, and park neighbors said that removal of the trees and brush had affected drainage in the area.

When the measure went before the City Council earlier this month, members asked for more time to evaluate the situation before voting on the park board’s recommendation.

Among those looking at the area, known as Pacman Hill, was the city’s engineer, Berzina said. Generally, the city staff disagreed that drainage problems in the area could be attributed to the addition of the disc golf course.

Trail-users claimed construction of the disc course had damaged the multiuse trail, and both trail-users and park neighbors said too many trees and too much underbrush had been cleared from the hill.

While city staff agreed that more trees than necessary were cut down, volunteers who built the course said most of the trees they cut down were already dead or dying.

Leslie told the council Thursday that crews would not grind any stumps because, if the city’s final decision is to restore the area, cutting to the ground will help encourage new growth.

Fans of the course remain hopeful the city will vote to keep it.

The tree-covered, hilly terrain pushed the short-lived course to the top of the list among disc golfers, according to Aaron Quisenberry, who spurred the volunteer effort to build it.

PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881. Her e-mail address is pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com.

IN OTHER ACTION

On Thursday, the Corinth City Council also:

* Approved $134,000 from economic development funds to upgrade the Corinth Parkway extension to concrete pavement, curb and gutter.

* Awarded a $43,000 design contract to Freese and Nichols from a $188,000 grant that will pay for a pedestrian bridge and other improvements to the Elm Fork Trail.

* Approved a request from North Texas Nissan to add a paint and body shop to its operations.