Annie wrote that as she understood it "in the service redesign the Park Board got all the trees in the City while the City got all the sewers."
Not being a member of the Park Board I might be incorrect so rather than making a statement I will ask a question. I understood that the Park Board transferred responsibilty for capital replacment as well as maintenance of not only the Park Board sewer system but also the Parkway streets. I recollect the Parkway light fixtures were included as well. If I am correct the total replacement value of all assets passed from the Park Board to Public Works was approximately $170,000,000. The total annual capital savings for Park Board on these items was estimated by the Park Board to be about $4,400,000 per year and the estimated maintenance savings was estimated at $1 million per year. The annual savings for the Park Board should be about $5,400,000 per year. Any Park Board members out there let me know if I am wrong. For those of you worried about the Park Board infrastructure remember that they were also scheduled to have their stated infrastructure gap closed by an increase from $1,920,000 per year for capital programs to $7,420,000 per year (A 386% increase over a three year period). I've always been supportive of the Park Board and their need for greater capital investment to maintain our parks at the high level we expect in Minneapolis. I have never understood however the previous administrations aggressive approach to funding the Park Boards infrastructure gap compared to their approach to the Public Works gap. In the same three year period Parks recieved a 386% increase Public Works gap spending is scheduled to go from $18,200,000 to only $21,800,000. If budgets are a little tighter now than everyone expected I would rather be in the Park Boards situation than Public Works when it comes time to trimming budgets. My concern for this Park Board is that they remember they are called to not only be stewards of our Parks, but stewards of our dollars as well. Bob Gustafson MMM __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
