Barbara:
In fact, the Park Board and Public Works did come to an agreement last year
or the year before whereby Public Works does maintenance on Parkways and the
Park Board does maintenance on certain green spaces owned by Public Works.
Also, the few sewers that are below parkways are now maintained by Public
Works. There are a few other details to the agreement. However, the Park
Board has absolutely no intention of giving up its police. In our
management system, teams are formed from various departments. So, for
instance, when putting together an event like the 4th of July celebration in
Powderhorn Park, a team will be assembled including people from Recreation,
Maintenance, Permits, and Police. Such team work would just not be possible
if the PB had to work with police that were not under its control. While it
may appear to a casual observer that there is duplication by having two
police departments, in fact the two departments play significantly different
roles.
Dean Zimmermann
Commissioner District 3
Mpls Park and Recreation Board
Candidate for Mpls City Council, Ward 6
612-722-8768
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wizardmarks
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 1:40 PM
To: Barbara Nelson
Cc: Carol Becker; Minneapolis Issues
Subject: Re: Strib not Covering Park Board FT was [Mpls] Full time Park
Board
Barbara Nelson wrote:
> I'd like to question Carol Becker's assumption that Minneapolitan's don't
know
> that there is a Park Board (another government as so many have put it)
> operating.
> They are supposed to be the Fourth Estate.
Estate is the operative word here, what does it conger up?
> The reason we buy newspapers is for NEWS
> (and the comics and Ann Landers)
AND Ms. Manners, she cracks me up!
Carol Becker's assertion that there are duplicative services is the real
issue. Is
it possible to combine the duplicative efforts without removing the Park
Board? For
example, can payroll be handled by the city payroll office?
I'd hesitate about the police because the city police department is almost
always
operating from a shortage of staff power, so were they to staff the parks,
would
officers be pulled out of the parks for street duty?
Could public works take over the roadways and not cause a dysfunction in
getting the
work done?
Annie, Dean, got any thoughts on this one?
WizardMarks, Central
>
>
> Barbara Nelson
> Seward
>
> >
> > I also would argue that many people in Minneapolis (the vast number of
> > people who don't do things like post to public policy lists) don't
> > understand that there is a second city government (the Park Board)
making
> > policy on streets, police, garbage, etc. Accountability for the Park
Board
> > is difficult when no one knows that the Park Board exists.
Accountability
> > may actually increase if the City Council took over some of the Park's
> > functions because visibility of those actions would increase. I think
that
> > the Star Tribune's decision to not spend a lot of time covering the Park
> > Board speaks volumes to this part of the question.
> >
> > Carol Becker
> > Longfellow
>
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