Thank you Craig Cox for the link about a stadium controversy,
www.mplsobserver.com. I was shocked to read that MPRB Superintendent
Jon Gurban was at the legislature (with I am sure the legislative
committee chair Walt Dziedzic and lobbyist Brian Rice) asking for money
to rebuild Parade Stadium. Thank you Councilperson Goodman for asking
if they had approached the community. The MPRB needs to increase their
forestry budget by $2.5 million a year to get Dutch Elm under control
and they are asking for money for a STADIUM. Commissioner Kummer and
Commissioner Fine are also on the legislative committee and this is
what they think ought to be their legislative agenda? I would be
willing to bet neither Annie Young or John Erwin (also of the
legislative committee) were apprised of this turn of events, and if
they were I'd love to see a post justifying this. I guess Bob Fine was
just giving lip service to the idea of an independent park board in his
editorial in the Southwest Journal,
http://www.swjournal.com/articles/2005/01/10/opinion/opinion02.txt
because this is the type of thing that will get everyone on board make
the parks department a division of city government.
Liz Wielinski
Columbia Park
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