Neighborhoods that squabble and bicker are the
ones that get cut out of the game.
-- Tony West
Neighborhood associations that tell public lies and call their council
person a liar, get cut out of the game too.
Glenn's report is false. John Fenton has not been fired. His employer, Lewis
Wendell stated that clearly at the meeting Glenn attended. Seventy people
heard him say that.
-- Tony West
How is the investigation of Committeeman 7 shaping up?
The Wanker
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From: "Anthony West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "UC List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] Infrequently asked questions
This notion betrays an unfamiliarity with budgeting for Recreation
facilities in neighborhoods beyond our own.
The city has been drifting away from swimming pools across the city. Pools
are increasingly costly to maintain and since Rec budget has been frozen
for many years now, and since the user population of the city is falling,
Rec has been looking for ways to reduce the number of pools. But I see no
class or income pattern to Rec's pool distribution. A new indoor swimming
pool was opened up in North Philadelphia within the last 12 months.
Meanwhile, the only new pool I've seen in Clark Park are the increasingly
flooded patches caused by drastic soil compaction.
Across West Philadelphia in recent years, parks and recreation centers in
working-class neighbors such as Kingsessing Rec and Carroll Park have
received substantial infrastructure investment. Since Clark Park may be
the most intensively used community park in the entire city, and is large
in acreage, it may even be lagging in City investment relative to its user
base.
In general, the "wrong side of the tracks" has received ample
infrastructure goodies from City Government over the last eight years. The
electoral base of the Street Administration owes little or nothing to
"wealthy neighborhoods". And one of the striking feature of University
City is how little political power it wields, compared to more typical
Philadelphia neighborhoods.
In general, neighborhoods that unite politically, whether rich or poor,
are the ones that get the juice. Neighborhoods that squabble and bicker
are the ones that get cut out of the game.
-- Tony West
I believe that once the good areas have separate service districts, the
budgets for less powerful, less wealthy neighborhoods will be slashed.
I gave a good example of this with our local sprayground. While Clark
Park is about to have enormous resources including city resources
lavished on it, the swimming pool so important to the kids that can't
afford all of the private privleges was paved over at 47th south of
Woodland. That Rec. center is on the wrong side of the tracks.
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