It's perhaps worth pointing out around now that this entire country's governmental system is based on criteria other than "avoid duplicating services." The whole notion of checks and balances inherently forces us to duplicate services. After all, to pick a real strawman, we could just have the executive branch arrest you, sentence you, and throw you in jail. Similarly, the founders of our country specifically chose to create an inefficient duplication in our representative body. The inefficiency of adding the Senate to the House was considered to be a *feature* of the system, not a bug. The founders WANTED the system to be inefficient, to avoid having an overly efficient system that could rush to a dumb decision.
So I'm with the people who are saying that a FEATURE of the independent park board is that it makes it hard for the city to rush to a short-term expedient decision to toss away our lovely parks, just to pay off our pension obligations or what-have-you. Now, this doesn't mean that we mightn't want to consolidate some of the organizations that perform Park Board work (Park police, public works department, etc.), as Aaron Klemz has suggested. But for decision-making, let's keep the inefficiency, thank you very much! Best, R -- Robert P. Goldman ECCO [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
