FX Winkler wrote:
Could somebody who was at the meeting let the rest of us know why the motion to create a dog run failed to progress?
I would be interested in knowing the positons of the FoCP Board members towards the creation of the park. Maybe next year someone will have to create a Dog Pak slate of board candidates
I don't recall all of the details, but one of the reasons was that the motion would have been an end-run _around_ the existing Dog Committee and the Board's review of its proposals.
The Dog Committee was charged to evaluate suggestions from the community. It did so, weighing different proposals, and at the last Board meeting they'd presented four possible avenues of action. (I haven't received them to put them onto the Website yet.) The Board was going to evaluate these, and perhaps decide on which actions to take. One of them was, BTW, a dog park.
Simply introducing a motion, and demanding a vote, may be a way to Get Things Done. However, it sidesteps any kind of real debate on the issue, and in this situation, it amounts to sweeping away all of the work the Dog Committee did.
Remember, people, creating a Dog Park isn't a simple matter. Let's say this motion passed. Now an area of the park has to be fenced off and dedicated for dog use _only_. This isn't something that everyone wants. And which area? Dog owners are fond of the Bowl, but we can't fence _that_ off. There are other areas of the Park which might make for decent Dog Runs, but will everyone agree on which one to use? Then there's the cost, which someone provided at the meeting where we created the Dog Committee. In fact, someone can make a very strong argument that a dog run wouldn't be needed, because it's against the law to allow dogs off their leashes.
Personally, I have no vested interest on the question: I have no dogs, and I have no kids to worry about. But the Dog Committee spent a lot of time looking at the various proposals very carefully, bringing in many viewpoints. The motion would have ignored all of this work, and pretty much avoided any real debate on the matter.
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