the Police
Department to take the time to go through this facinating experience.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
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From: David Shove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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o give the Parade grounds park to the Guthrie.
> It was the independent Park Board and independent members of the
> council, who saved that park for us. Let us continue with our balanced
> system. The idea to merge the Park and Library Boards with the City
> Council is simply absurd.
> Clark Griffith,
> 7th Ward,
>
>
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Subject: Boards.
It appears to me that one of the great strengths of our city is the
balance of power that exists. If the Park Board were to be merged into
the City Council, there would be no parks after the first decade.
Remember the Parade/Guthrie fiasco of
to give the Parade grounds park to the Guthrie.
It was the independent Park Board and independent members of the
council, who saved that park for us. Let us continue with our balanced
system. The idea to merge the Park and Library Boards with the City
Council is simply absurd.
Clark Griffith,
7th
>I'm with Jan that we should take a very serious look at eliminating the Park
>and Library Boards; concentrating the decisions under the city council.
>
OK, I'll admit that I like democracy, a lot of democracy, a noisy
democracy. But why do we want to eliminate these boa
he same day. All of these
boards represent the same constituents, thus the same interests.
One only needs to look as far as St. Paul to see a Park System that is part
of city government, in their case Public Works. The combining of similar
duties in the park system and city government can on
