One of Washington’s premier parks celebrates its new feature with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The celebration of the improved, all-inclusive playground at Havens Gardens includes city officials and representatives of Trillium Health Resources.

“It is a great enhancement to the whole Havens Gardens area because it allows all children of all abilities to come out there and play together,” said Kristi Roberson, the city’s parks and recreation director.

In February, the Washington City Council approved spending $264,055.42 for the improvements at the waterfront park. An initial $225,000 grant from Trillium Health Resources provided the money for the Play Together project. The project’s contract was amended to $280,555.42 to complete all amenities and walkways related to the project. Also, the city received a $3,600 private donation for the project.

The new playground equipment includes, but is not limited to, a Liberty Swing (for children and adults using wheelchairs), a rocking boat, double ramps and a custom-made sign to identify the waterfront park. Area Boy Scout troops donated money for the Liberty Swing.

The new playground is part of an ongoing effort to improve Havens Gardens. Some proposed improvements include a new fishing pier, a kayak launch, loop walking trail west of the parking lot, a shelter on the west end of Havens Gardens so it overlooks the Pamlico River, a fenced-in play area for small children and adding facilities for a splash park, bocce and beach volleyball.

The new pier, if built, would include cutouts from which handicapped people could fish, according to a city document.

“By managing Medicaid funding and services locally, we’ve been able to achieve cost efficiencies that allow us to reinvest savings into programs that increase resources and community engagement opportunities for the individuals and families we serve,” according to the Trillium website.

Trillium is using “reinvestment” dollars to help communities in its 24-county service area develop playgrounds that allow people — with disabilities or not — to come together, according to an email sent by Trillium spokeswoman Kristin Day to area media outlets. The Havens Gardens playground will be one of 30 such playgrounds Trillium plans to open.

The consolidation of East Carolina Behavioral Health and CoastalCare formed Trillium, which manages mental-health, substance-abuse and intellectual/developmental disabilities services in eastern North Carolina.