[Mpls] Peavey Park closing

[Pat Bohn]

The only meeting the school district's reuse group has set up for the Phillips School (Peavey Park) site isn't until Dec. 5th.  I think it's interesting that the Howe and Cooper sites each have 3 meetings set up so far, but the Phillips, Willard, Hamilton and Holland sites only have one each so far.  I again have the feeling that those of us in poorer neighborhoods don't matter as much to most of this school board.  Here are some email addresses I hope you all find helpful in registering your frustrations wiyh the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Buzzy Bohn
Folwell

School Board:

Judith.Farmer at mpls.k12.mn.us
Joseph.Erickson at mpls.k12.mn.us
Colleen.Moriarty at mpls.k12.mn.us
Peggy.Flanagan at mpls.k12.mn.us
Lydia.Lee at mpls.k12.mn.us
Audrey.Johnson at mpls.k12.mn.us
Sharon.Henry-Blythe at mpls.k12.mn.us

Head of Facilities Dept.:

Dan.Hambrock at mpls.k12.mn.us

The KKE group in charge of getting community input on what to do with the closed sites:

MpsReusePlan at mpls.k12.mn.us



Barbara Lickness wrote:

> This is a travesty folks. Both the School Board and Park Board members should be ashamed of themselves. Of all the parks in Minneapolis to close-down, Peavey isn't one of them. The surrounding neighbors worked very hard to stablize this park in a very fragile area. Parents in this neighborhood compete regularly with the drug dealers for control of their children. When kids can play at the park or be engaged in postive activities, they are less likely to turn to drugs and gangs. Well, now the kids around there have fewer choices for engaging in positive activities.
>
> Asking parents to send their kids to Stewart Park through all the traffic and dangerous "human obstacles" they could encounter is just plain wrong. Remember, among a list of serious problems that area has also been saturated with released sex offenders. There is no way I would let me child wander through that geography.
>
> There has to be a different solution to this problem. There are many resident activists who are willing to roll up their sleeves and find a way here. Give them a seat at the table.
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> Barb Lickness
> Whittier
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