And we have not even discussed if we could get some money out of the Legislature to take on our devastating Tree Emergency.
These are examples that we refer to often times as the backroom antics and I am never sure how they get brought forward or get twisted around from what I thought were our tip priority issues. These will be the types of actions I will be fighting for in my re-election campaign to the Park Board - Open up the dialogue, no more backroom deals, provide all the information to all the Commissioners and more. And since I sit on the Legislative Committee I would even love to know when we are going over to make requests that I be included in the who, what, where and when info. I seem to never know when they are going over to the Capitol.
Yes, running for the Park Board again is still on my platter even though I am exploring some other options as well.
Even though I have sat on this Legislative committee for a long time I seem to be the last to know. A few years back I didn't lobby for the Park Board because I was lobbying for some things in my own neighborhood and didn't want legislators confused. But those days are done and I am still on the committee and still don't know when we are going over to St. Paul.
Miss left-it-the-dark, Annie Young citywide Park Commissioner
At 11:56 AM 1/12/05 -0600, Elizabeth Wielinski wrote:
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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