HomeMy WebLinkAboutAC 12-06-2017 Cooper - Item 3 (3)
Purrington, Teresa
From:Allan Cooper <allancoope@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday,
To:Stanwyck, Shelly
Cc:Advisory Bodies; Mudgett, Melissa; Hyfield, Devin; racouillat@charter.net; cc mc lean;
Kit Gould-Himelblau
Subject:Re: Public Hearing Item #3 - 2017 Annual Report: 2020 Parks and Recreation Strategic
Plan
Dear Shelly -
Thank you for your reply. It is helpful to those of us who are interested in a seeing a park site
procured in the North Broad Street Neighborhood that we could read the October 18, 2017 email you
sent to both the Council and to “neighborhood leadership”. This is because it appears that neither Kit
Gould-Himelblau nor Greg Robinson (the individuals representing “neighborhood leadership”) shared
this correspondence with the rest of us.
You mention that park site procurement activities were omitted from the Annual Progress Report
under Goal #4 “Expand Parks and Facilities” because it was neither a completed project and there
were no tangible results. However your meeting with “neighborhood leadership” could have been
mentioned under the category “group and community activities”. This would be akin to your mention
of the Dog Park survey results.
Also, please amend the "Summary of Goals and Objectives" Goal #4 "Expand Parks and Facilities"
on page 3-17 of the draft "2020 Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan" to include Objective 4.3.2.
On another note, I, at this point, would like to know how much money remains to fund the
procurement of a park site. I see the minutes of the City Council meeting of June 1, 2017 stating that
Council consensus was “to take the Park and Recreation Element funds ($160,000) from the
$900,000 and leave the remaining money for the park…” The minutes went on to assure the
continued funding of the Safe Routes to School and the Broad Street Bike Boulevard. The implication
here - though it was not stated explicitly - is that these expenses would come out of the General
Fund. However the July 1, 2017 Adopted Budget states on page A1-24 under Budget Highlights (see
below) that only $260,000 would remain in the Parkland Development Fund to pay for the
procurement of a site for the North Broad Street Neighborhood Park. What happened between June
1, 2017 and July 1, 2017 that would result in this $380,000 discrepancy? Thank you!
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2017-18 Adopted Budget
July 1, 2017
Page A1-24
PARKLAND DEVELOPMENT FUND
The proposed Financial Plan proposes to transfer $640,000 from the Parkland Development Fund set aside as part of the
2016-17 Supplemental Budget for potential use toward funding of a park north of Broad Street (original set aside
amount was $900,000). This allocation will fund an update to the Parks and Recreation Element in the amount of
$160,000 and two Capital Improvement Projects (Bishop Peak/Pacheco Safe Route to School and the Broad Street Bike
Boulevard) in the same geographic area for a total of $480,000. The remainder amount of $260,000 is proposed to remain
in the Parkland Development Fund.
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Stanwyck, Shelly <sstanwyck@slocity.org> wrote:
Thanks Mr. Cooper –
Here is a link to the correspondence to the PRC on this topic.
From: Purrington, Teresa
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 1:55 PM
Subject: Agenda Correspondence for 12-06-2017 PRC Meeting
Hello all,
Linked below is correspondence received for the 12-06-2017 Meeting.
Item #3: Stanwick - http://opengov.slocity.org/weblink/1,1,1/doc/69405/Page1.aspx
Bcc: PRC and staff
Teresa Purrington
Process Improvement Analyst
City Administration
City Clerk's Office
990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3218
E tpurrington@slocity.org
T 805.781.7105
slocity.org
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From: Allan Cooper \[mailto:allancoope@gmail.com\]
Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 11:42 AM
To: Advisory Bodies <advisorybodies@slocity.org>; Stanwyck, Shelly <sstanwyck@slocity.org>; Mudgett, Melissa
<mmudgett@slocity.org>; Hyfield, Devin <DHyfield@slocity.org>
Cc: racouillat@charter.net; cc mc lean <ccmslo@att.net>; Kit Gould-Himelblau <kit.gould1@gmail.com>
Subject: Public Hearing Item #3 - 2017 Annual Report: 2020 Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan
Dear Shelly, Melissa and Devin -
I am attaching below a revised letter regarding Public
Hearing Item #3 and I hope you will kindly replace the
previous letter with this one. In this letter I
am again stating that there is no mention in the 2017
Annual Progress Report of your, Kit Gould-Himelblau's or
Rick Racouillat's hard work searching over the past year
for a suitable park site. In fact there is no mention of the
proposed North Broad Street Neighborhood park anywhere
in this report (i.e., the 2017 Annual Progress Report) far
less a description detailing the progress being made.
Moving on to the Draft 2020 Parks and Recreation
Strategic Plan, there is no mention of Objective 4.3.2 on
page 3-17 where the Goals and Objectives first appear. I
belatedly discovered that Objective 4.3.2 does indeed
show up 14 pages further on - on page 3-31 - seemingly
as an afterthought (and I apologize for being remiss in
catching this).
Nevertheless, I believe my point is still very valid in that
there is no exposition whatsoever about how the
$740,000 appropriation is being handled nor is there any
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clarity coming from the P & R Commission regarding the
following:
"...greater clarity in pursuing a particular site in collaboration with
the Safe Routes to School, and...there be some type of articulation to
pursue a time frame for a park in the North Broad Street area."
Shelly Stanwyck informed New Times back in June 15,
2017:
"We'll be looking and talking to any large-property owners to see if they have an interest in either
a sale or lease,"
Note my emphasis on the word "We'll" meaning that it is not solely up to the
neighborhood to do the heavy lifting...it is also up to the P & R Commission to
do much of the heavy lifting, per direction from the City Council. And I believe
the public has a right to know what has transpired up to this point. I hope this
might help clarify my position. Thank you!
- Allan
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