CTA: The Five Year Plan
The 5-year plan is no longer just for remedial students who have just gotten way too comfortable with the status quo, and fearing the work it takes to actually make progress, try to prolong their free ride by sleepwalking through another year of symbolic ritual. The Seattle Parks Department is undertaking a 5-year planning process to try and scope out what they should be putting scarce resources into over the next half-decade, and they want you to be a part of it.
It’s no secret that funds for new park development will be minimal without the Pro Parks Levy, which ends this year. It’s also very possible that this planning process is a step toward documenting the need for a new Levy and what it might pay for.
From the Parks Department Strategic Business Plan website:
The Strategic Business Plan will identify emerging issues and policy questions relating to Parks’ current strengths, challenges and opportunities. The purpose of the Plan is to focus Parks’ activities to ensure the most efficient and effective use of public tax dollars.
I dunno…can you think of something that the Parks Department has found challenging over the course of the last decade?
Here’s what you need to do:
- Complete this Parks Department survey and write “skatepark” wherever you see fit.
- Go to one of the over 30 meetings they’re holding to gather input, and ask for skateparks.
This is a very simple way to make sure that the Seattle Parks Department has skateparks on the Radar for the foreseeable future. Duty now for the future!
