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Crane Against Penny for Parks
Monday, November 03, 2008
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IS PENNY FOR PARKS A SMART CHOICE? By Michael Crane, NPA Steering Committee Member - Ward 4
Sat, 01 November 2008
Penny for Parks is poorly planned, unnecessary, and unaccountable. This November voters will be asked to approve or reject a change in the City Charter that will permanently increase our taxes to pay for capital improvements in city parks. This resolution should be rejected for the following reasons.
1) This is a dedicated tax that is not specifically dedicated. At the October Ward 4/7 NPA meeting a Parks Commissioner stated that there was no capital budget, no list of repair items and their associated cost. The most they have are photographs.
2) A permanent tax is an unconventional way to pay for capital repairs. Capital repair funding typically comes from voter approved borrowing (bonds) which are eliminated after the loan is repaid. With Penny for Parks, voters will be taxed even after all repairs are made. This amounts to a tax and spend policy with no specific goals and no end in sight.
3) The Commission currently controls or significantly influences several dedicated taxes already. The city’s Annual Report shows the Conservation Legacy Fund at $313,000; the Parks Greenbelt Dedicated tax at $58,000; the Goss Court/Leddy Park Capital Fund with $499,000; and the newly created Waterfront TIF district that is budgeted to generate $957,768 this year. These funds are restricted to these specific purposes but they can be used for capital improvements at these sites which should, with careful budgeting, relieve some of the repair pressures in other areas. In fact, two of these funds can be used for the two priority areas they identified, the waterfront and parts of the bike path.
4) Careful budgeting does not appear to be evident in the Parks Department. The City budget shows the Department’s 2009 revenues at $3.1 million, the largest it has ever been, yet they still can’t live within their means. If we gave a private sector recreation company Leddy Arena, North Beach, the bike path, the waterfront, Perkins Pier, and the Community Boat House, I believe they would be able to make ends meet. The voters should ask the Parks Department to make ends meet.
5) During the NPA meeting, the Parks Commissioner stated that they are going to the voters directly because the relationship between the Department and City Council “isn’t a great one.” That raises a red flag. I believe our Council representatives are there to represent us, and in turn, the public has the opportunity to hold them accountable during the election process. A city charter change to allow the unelected Parks and Recreation Commission to permanently tax us every year for unspecified expenses amounts to unaccountable taxation.
6) The Parks Commission has demonstrated recently on several occasions that they do not represent the will of the general public. In the south end’s Baird Park they made significant changes to its use without informing the closest neighbors who played there most often. In the Old North End the Commission voted unanimously against using Conservation Legacy Funds to buy a pocket park and small community garden. The Commission’s decision was so out of touch with public opinion that the City Council overruled them and the purchase was made. In the New North End, the Commission voted to not allow landowners who border Leddy Park to join a working group that will analyze the impacts of a new project that may alter 5-10 acres of woodlands and trails. Taxing the public is not a right but a responsibility and this Commission has not demonstrated that it deserves this privilege.
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