Editor,
The Parks Commission, while outsourcing their bookkeeping and to approve their quarterly financials for 2019, also pledged three months ago to “step back” to create a process in their “2020 Vision Plan – Master Plan” for “Discovery” to “focus on gathering information” including existing plans, for analysis to “evaluate existing conditions,” and for “idea generation” to “brainstorm a wide range of ideas.”
Critical to gathering information might include addressing the current status of the Lake Leatherwood City Park Master Plan from 2014, approved by the city council in 2014 with an Executive Summary stating, “It will, therefore, be reviewed and updated annually by the commission.”
Yet not only has Parks sidestepped this responsibility, they’re yet to review or update their Trails Master Plan from 2014, and have also not updated the “Lake Leatherwood Park 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan 2016-2021” document since September 2017.
All of these planning documents have been in place for years, and none of this information accounts for the extensive changes in Parks development, funding, and operation of the new Gravity Trails facility in the Miner’s Rock area of Leatherwood Park.
Please Parks, it’s time to do some deep homework, focus on obvious Discovery gathering, and look back to the existing annual promises in need of fulfilment.
Christopher Fischer