[Mpls] Park Board Agenda /Eloise Butler

[Pat Bohn]

    Is this the same land that the "Save Anwatin Woods" group is working on?  They have a website: www.SaveAnwatinWoods.org.  I grew up on 4th and Queen Av N and spent a lot of my childhood in and
around Eloise Butler and Glenwood(now Wirth) Park would hate to see anything harm that area.

Buzzy Bohn
Folwell

Svattheriver at aol.com wrote:

> My neighbor brought over a flyer about how the Park Board Planning  Committee
> will be meeting July 6th to eliminate the buffer of natural  plants around
> the  Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden. As a functioning bird  sanctuary, a green
> buffer around this part of the park seems essential.
>
> If this is true, this is an extraordinary example of both poor  planning and
> poor communication.
> My neighbor asked me what was going on so I went to the website to see what
> was on the agenda.
>
> There are no agenda listings for the committee meetings or the regular
> meeting on July 6. This is an organization with a $49,786,332 annual budget but
> unable to post board agendas.
> _http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=37&calid=309_
> (http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=37&calid=309) .
>
>  I used to get the Mpls. Park and Recreation Board Agenda mailed to my  house
> before each meeting.
> In a cost cutting move the MPRB stopped mailing out agendas. The plan was  to
> post the agenda online and post the agendas at Park buildings so those
> without computers could find a published agenda. There are no agendas posted at  my
> neighborhood park. There are no agendas online.
>
>
> So now in addition to a Parlimentary body that does not follow  Robert's
> Rules of Order and  approve the minutes its previous  meetings, now there is no
> way to find out what is on the agenda. I would be  interested in a legal opinion
> about this.
> As President of the Seward Neighborhood Group, for both our Audits and for
> NRP funding I had to provide an initialed copy of approved minutes to document
> actions of our board. That is a proven way of making sure that there is an
> accurate accounting of board actions.
>
> I love our parks, and realize that park commissioners are working to make
> our parks better, but it is really time to open up the process and straighten
> out some of this mess.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Vreeland  Seward
>
>
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