PEABODY — Community members gathered at City Hall in Wiggin Auditorium to share their opinions and ultimately influence how Centennial Park will be improved and utilized.

Mayor Ted Bettencourt explained that Peabody received a $65,000 grant from MassDevelopment to do a master plan review of Centennial Park.

“We don’t have some new business or new plan or anything like that in place,” Bettencourt said. “This is just something that we’ve got a grant, and we wanted to take that opportunity to utilize the grant funds to review Centennial Park and to look at different opportunities to make some improvement over there.”

He added, “This is just an opportunity to really get people’s opinions and to do a review… We might not make changes. We might make some small changes. We might make large changes. But we want to get everybody’s input to see if it’s something that works for the City, see if it’s something that works for Ward 1 (and) the South Peabody area.”

Andrew Julian, project manager with R&D Consultants, noted that the community’s feedback will be taken into account in the finalized report, which is projected to be finished and provided to the public within the next two months.

The community members in attendance were given three activities to complete to relay their thoughts to the project leaders.

The first activity was for attendees to place stickers on the four maps in the room. Green stickers meant the person loves that area of Centennial Park, the yellow stickers meant that area needs improvements, and red stickers located barriers and problems that need to be addressed. Community members then placed sticky notes along with their colored stickers to provide explanations.

The next activity was similar. Attendees were asked to use blue dots to point out where there could be future opportunities for redevelopment and use one star each to showcase a key site where more activation should be prioritized. Sticky notes were also used during this activity to provide explanations.

The third activity was to fill out an index card with a description of their most-desired initiative based on these four categories: physical improvements, programming, economic development, and policy changes.

“All the feedback we hear here tonight is going to be used for this plan,” said Drew Levin, senior planner. “We do not want any decisions that are made in Centennial Park to happen in a vacuum. We want to make sure that they’re vetted and that they’re ideas that we heard from the public, so we really thank you for being here this evening.”

Bettencourt noted that anyone who has concerns about or ideas for Centennial Park can reach out to his office directly.