Mr. Holmes,
Now that the City has some new parks funding from breaking free of metropolitan district (as you indicated to me regarding park toilets), can we pretty please:
-return Marshall comm ctr to 5 day/wk schedule? (Now 2 day)
-take over/fund Hough Pool to reopen as it was?
-refurbish Esther Short lawns?
-Plant trees along new Jefferson st ext?
-pave walk from City Hall to Phil Arnold Wy?
-finish park off on 9th/Columbia block?
-reopen Marshall community garden and/or work with nonprofits n churches to open their gardens to all or put some in?
-buy out 20 acre midcentury modern estate botanical garden out Old Evergreen Hwy at 120th SE block (forget name, its on garden tour, private old money estate right on river, they wanted to sell when I toured it 2 yrs ago)? Vancouver has no arboretum/botanical/public garden to speak of, save greenways, Esther Short rose gdn, and Fort. Tacoma and Spokane each have botanical gardens and zoos. Yes, we're same size as them. Bellevue, 2/3 our size, has great botanic gdn and a petting zoo. Crikey, SeaTac, pop 50K, has a great botanical garden. Idk, maybe offer to annex Heritage Farm from County lol. They need the $.
-and possibly (altho this last one is faint hope): get together a public art gallery space, say in our fancy dance City Hall, by putting together city, peacehealth, college, pvt n corp collections in city? Tacoma, same size, has 3 great art museums. We have a Carnegie Library. And Portland.
And yes, Im addressing you directly. Youre the man Council trusts to hold the powers of getting things done here. Forward to Council if you like-Im not going to. (-:
No, I dont expect it all done at once. But these little things a livable working city doth make. And we arent working on all gears yet.
Thanks for listening.
Semi-regular musings, rants, and occasional raves, as well as constructive critique, about politico-economic goings-on and needs in Vancouver, USA and surrounding area. O Vancouvria! seeks to point out problems that need redress, bear witness to issues otherwise ignored, and start dialogue that brings the ear of public needs and wants back to movers & shakers in our community.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Re: Reopen Hough Pool & Return Marshall to 5 Days a Week
Thanks for your thoughts - I will forward this on to Julie Hannon, Parks and Recreation Director for consideration.
Just to be clear, though, I did not indicate that we had more funding as a result of the recent independence from the County, but rather had a new found ability to focus exclusively on City of Vancouver parks. As with all of our core service areas, we will do the absolute best with what resources we have, but cannot at this stage promise new and additional assets and programs.
Regards -
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