[Mpls] People4Parks

[wmmarks]

Addendum: My post to the list was carbon copied to People$Parks. It 
bounced back as undeliverable. ;-)
WMarks, Central

wmmarks wrote:

> Council Member Barbara Johnson's People4Parks is the saddest local 
> political development I've seen lately. *Less than five weeks until 
> the election, *several DFL council seats wobbly, *the Park Board in 
> complete dissarray, *the NRP in tough straights, *the library board 
> with a huge burden, *the school board unable to contend with its 
> failures, *two DFLers going at it for mayor.
>
> It's significant that Barbara Johnson, daughter of Alice Rainville, 
> related to John Derus, decades close to Walt Dzeidzic began this 
> push--or is that putsch? They are intimately involved in the life of 
> De La Salle High School. Still, it looks like Wiley Coyote trying to 
> grab for the last tuft of grass while he's already off the edge of the 
> cliff.
>
> The text of CM Barbara Johnson's email to me has me asking the musical 
> questions: 'what does independent park board' mean to Ms. Johnson? 
> What does strong mean?
>
> There are a few terribly earnest souls out there willing to sit 
> through contentious park board meetings and take notes. They post them 
> on this forum. Some responders get their feathers all ruffled (I've 
> been accused of this, though not necessarily in terms of the parks) 
> and quack around, some provide useful commentary to a thousand people 
> who can vote in a city of how many registered voters?
>
> It would be hard to deny that the MPRB has behaved shabbily towards 
> the populace in providing meeting minutes, budgets, plans they are 
> working through, progress made. The park system is much too big to 
> wing it with the paper/internet work.. This, in turn, requires that 
> the park board be able to define the logic behind initiatives. From 
> Ms. Johnson's post I get the idea that insisting that the park board 
> clean up its reporting system would be a bad thing. I also get the 
> feeling that justifying how public money is used on a day to day basis 
> would be a bad thing.
>
> Have a it, CM Johnson, but no matter who gets elected, it's still 
> incumbent on them to clean up the park board's act.
>
> WizardMarks, Central
>
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