Myrtle funds moved, Delridge gets $250K

Last night the Parks Levy Oversight Committee voted unanimously to shift the $250K allocated by the Parks For All Levy to the Myrtle skatespot, to help fund the Delridge project.  Which, pretty much completes the funding picture for the Delridge project.

The downside of this is that the angry neighbors who called skaters “degenerates”, “drug dealers”, “thieves”, and even accused them of defacing a monument to fallen soldiers in Olympia in a public meeting, were successful in keeping a neighborhood skatespot from being built.  The kids in the Myrtle neighborhood will now have to travel all the way to Delridge to skate.

The upshot is that no kids will have to enjoy their healthy recreational sport of choice in the vicinity of adults that clearly fear and despise young people so much that they’re willing to demean them to their faces.

Thanks Myrtle neighbors!  I hope you enjoy your new homeless camp/cell tower farm/jungle gym #5000/place where teenagers are going to have nothing to do so they’ll be doing all the things you don’t like them doing anyway.

You win at life.  Congrats.