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| civilian2b |
 Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:23 am |
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On Thursday November 4th the Seattle City Council will hold their final Public Hearing on the Mayor�s proposed budget for the City of Seattle for 2005. In that budget is $330,000 to build a skatepark at Lower Woodland just west of the ballfields near the BMX mounds. This is the conceptual drawing.
With just about 40,000 skateboarders in Seattle and almost no place to skateboard we need this skatepark and we need the City Council to keep these dollars in the budget.
If you could please make time to go to this hearing, your presence, and if you are able, your testifying will make a difference as to whether this money stays in the budget or gets cut out. It�s a pretty painless way for us to help ensure that we get the money. Just go downtown on Thursday afternoon, enter City Hall on 5th Ave between James and Cherry, and go upstairs and to the left to the Council Chambers. Lines will begin to form at about 4:00. Sign in for speakers is at 5:00. Meeting begins at 5:30. If you get there near 4:00, sign in at 5:00ish (but don�t be amongst the first 10 or so speakers because not all councilmembers get to the meeting on time and we need the ear of all of them), you will have a chance to speak in the first hour or so.
You are allowed to speak for 2 minutes. Even if you can not personally speak, your presence will be very helpful if you can offer you support in the way of applause when someone from this cause finishes speaking. It sounds simple and it is. It�s much harder for electeds to slash this line item if say a hundred folks or more show up and support the money for this park. We lost the state grant by not showing them enough need and enough support, but we�re smarter now. Let�s get this City money in the bag.
Parents For Skateparks is working on a 6 year citywide skatepark building program which we will look to the City to fund. The plan calls for 4 larger sector skateparks in each quadrant of the city, 8 larger high density neighborhood / urban village skateparks, and 16 smaller lower density neighborhood skateparks. Our goal is safe, accessible skateparks in every neighborhood.
If you speak it would be great if you could state your support for the funding of Lower Woodland Skatepark and your support for the Parents For Skateparks 6 year plan that will distribute skateparks across the city. Bring kids to the meeting if you can. It�s a great way to involve them in civics and it�s good for councilmembers to see kids involved in public process.
This is the map that shows the City Hall location:
This is the mapquest link for finding the Seattle City Hall:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?...ountryid=US&a ddtohistory=&searchtype=address&cat=&address=5th%20Ave%20% 26%20Cherry%20St&city=Seattle&state=WA&zipcode=98104&s earch=%20%20Search%20%20&searchtab=address
Please forward this to your skateboard supporting neighbors and friends.
Thank you for your support of public skateparks in Seattle.
Kate Martin |
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| carveNgrind |
| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:58 pm |
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Location: the 805
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Ya know what's funny is I went to the local indoor skatepark owner this weekend because he mentioned something about building a bowled structure when he starts renting a new building. Me being stoked on the prospect of this he says he intends to build a street oriented park again with "bowled features". When I asked if he intends to build a single standing bowl he said "no, because I think that's boring".(the guy don't even skate)Not that what he described sounded like an entirely bad idea, but I guess 95% of the skaters here have it all wrong?
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