Parks at what cost?

In this week’s Courier Herald the commentary by Laurie Carter is a jewel. This is known as the parks Commentary. She is the one that taped every meeting that she ever attended so that she could give you all the great commentaries about the parks over the years that she has lived here. She is truthful to a point. She never tells the cost of these wonderful parks that have come into our city #1 Did she tell you how we got the CedarView park? How Council member Swatman had been president or treasury of the park and had not been about to collect HOA dues. How he had lived in the park and saw why he couldn’t collect the dues. How he tried to get one person that lives on Hwy 410 to pay the dues, and wound up finding out through a lawyer he couldn’t collect the dues. So instead of the people that lived in Cedarview getting sewers to help them he decided to get the HOA to give the park to the city. With that done, how much of our tax money paid for the refurbishing of the park and now the maintenance of that park. Did she tell you those costs???? #2 Did she tell you how much the Morairty park cost the city and how much it cost the city to remove the home on the property and how they haven’t done anything for that park other than to use it as part of public works, storing plants, and parking boat trailers and cars???? Why hasn’t that park been finished for ball parks and etc.??? #3 How the WSU forest has acreage for a park and how they wanted to pass a bond called the forever tax to make a Metropolitan Park District. Did she tell you about the $10 million councilmatic bond that the council passed and used to buy up houses in the Civic Area and built the red barn city hall? Did she tell you how they used part of that money for the Ehli hill storm water drain? Did she tell you if they ever paid that back to that bond that we are still paying for in our water and sewer bill? And yet she did tell you how we all should pass the forever tax. All Laurie Carter cares about is the Fennel Creek Trail. That is all she has ever cared about because that is what she wants for this city. She helped those with the park at Lake Bonney because that gave her notoriety for wanting trails and parks for the city. She went to then Mayor Young and he scorched her on something to do with the parks; therefore all she can think about and all she wants in this city is parks at any cost. That is her goal. Now along comes an article about San Francisco about the gnomes and fairies in the parks. How delightful for the small children in our city. At what cost???? Oh a councilman builds a door or two and puts them at the base of a tree. Our young teens find the doors and break them and/or steals them. So was it said they nailed them to the tees. Don’t nails kill trees???? In our wonderful Councilmember Hamilton Tree city??? Then at a council meeting the council discusses Fairies, gnomes and little houses. Sounds like the park in Canada that went bankrupt. Councilmember Lewis asks about permits—are we going to have these fairies and gnomes pay for permits?? Question was never answered or reported. Even the Mayor of our fair city falls into the disruption of a meeting to discuss fairies and gnomes. Where are the pink elephants???? How much drinking was going on at that council meeting??? I think Council member Watson and ex council member Carter should form a non-profit and build their own little gnome city on the Morairty property – that way they will be near wetlands for the fairies and the gnomes to have water and perhaps we can plant fish goldfish so they can go fishing. Of course they will all have to be permitted as that would be under the ordinances of the city. Am sure all these people that go to the webpage would be willing to donate money for the playful city. After all we have a dog park we should have a park for the ones in their 40’s and 50’s that like to play and get down on their knees and build a city within a city. Please don’t forget the pink elephants and the Smurfs and the Mushrooms. Also contact ex-councilmember King to help build a railroad around the city. And if you want you might want to bring some wine to create more imagination as you continue building your city.