When the Trexler Trust funded Parknership was announced in May with much fanfare, I raised my hand immediately. However, it has been moving at a snail's pace. The board, which consisted only of Matt Tuerk and Jamie Musselman, just added their third member and board director, Simon Moore. Moore, like Tuerk, is a cyclist and runner. With the spandex recreation component well in place, there still is no advocate for the traditional park system, much less someone to speak up for the WPA. While Tuerk seems to be picking the team, I haven't sold him on me yet. He balked and said that I was a reporter. While I replied that I would respect the board's confidentiality, he must decide if he's looking out for the parks, or just looking for more flattery.
In Cedar Park some of the invasives blocking the creek banks have grown into saplings, ten feet tall and an inch in diameter. Shown above is the foot bridge by the Rose Garden. There are miles of unattended creek banks in Allentown, the creek by the rose garden in Cedar Park need not be one of them.
While I believe the Parknership needs my institutional knowledge of the parks, the parks meanwhile need me to continue pointing out the neglect masquerading as environmental conservation.
Mike designed neglect is a micro management team of experts feeding the public propaganda. These people are made up of swimmers from the east river blending outlet.
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to go in there and cut those inch-thick weeds down with a large pruner. That's insane, along with the rest of the weeds the city has allowed to grow.
ReplyDeleteMike, I gave up hoping something good would come from city government years ago. Matt turns out to be more of the same, placing his personal agenda ahead of what residents want. He has big plans for Allentown, unfortunately those plans appeal only to a select few. Again, blame the voters for this, apparently they believe the city can run itself, the truth however is the city is being run into the ground do to their neglect..
ReplyDeleteIt's a jungle out there!
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