[Mpls] Peavey Park closing

Sun Nov 6 16:16:40 CST 2005

The dismantling of Peavey Park should be a call to action for
Minneapolis citizens!  Yes, it is true that the School Board closed the
Four Winds school which provided the gymnasium but that should not
necessarily lead to transferring Peavey park staff, programs, and
equipment to Stewart or other area parks.  

The process stunk! To take this action without letting the folks in the
Peavey Park neighborhood have their say and try to find alternatives is
despicable.  The notion that no immediate solution exists so therefore
you effectively shut down the park is one that would not be tolerated in
wealthier neighborhoods in our city. There are ways to keep Peavey Park
open - it is as much a matter of will as it is of money!  

The real tragedy is that the current Park Board majority (Fine, Olson,
Hauser, Kummer, and Dziedzic)together with a failed superintendent seem
to be a lot more concerned about finding a way to hand over park land on
Nicollet Island to De La Salle to build a football stadium than finding
a way to keep Peavey Park open and vital!

This election is about priorities!  Keeping parks open, keeping park
land for the public, keeping green space, keeping focused on the needs
of citizens and neighborhoods, keeping the parks maintained and safe,
and keeping developers at bay! To preserve our parks it is imperative
that we vote for reform!

Jim Bernstein
Fulton
Candidate, Minneapolis Park & Rec Board, District 6

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From: mpls-bounces at mnforum.org [mailto:mpls-bounces at mnforum.org] On
Behalf Of Pat Bohn
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 2:07 PM
To: Barbara Lickness
Cc: Shawn Lewis; mpls at mnforum.org
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Peavey Park closing

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.
>
> Barb Lickness
> Whittier
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