I have a really wild speculation, I mean a really daring and challenging idea. There are legitimate disagreements about many Park issues that have been discussed on the list and many choices that involve priorities of how our limited dollars should be spent. Please tell me if you disagree, but I think I can come up with 3 things that everyone on this list would agree should be changed at the Park Board: Protect the taxpayers from commercial failures on Park Land. As an example: "The Fort", the extreme sport complex at Fort Snelling that was a private commercial operation that went belly up leaving the Park Board (us taxpayers) on the hook for 2.5 Million dollars of unpaid contractor fees. With the benefit of hindsight, this was a huge legal mistake- yes? Evaluate and make decisions based on the actual cost. Protect the taxpayers from cost overruns. What needs to be changed? The thing that really bothers me is not the fact that there are changes or additions to cost estimates. What bothers me is some of the biggest decisions made are being made and voted on because at a specific level of funding these decisions make sense, but if the actual cost were known, different decisions would have been made. At a minimum, at least factor in the usual percentage of cost overrun to any new proposal. Tell us what you are doing and why. Publish or make available online an itemized annual budget for how our money is being spent and list all the fund balances of Park Board accounts. Provide an email address for sending an email to the board. Provide the same agenda to the public that the board receives. Publish minutes. Do we agree about these changes? Thanks, Scott Vreeland Seward Candidate for Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board District 3 REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list.
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