JayDee
Look, we all agree (I think) that the Parks have been getting the shaft in terms of maintenance funding.
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That being said, the process that led here means little: what we are voting on is a funding and independent governing mechanism with no public input after we approve it: No buyers remorse allowed. Sure, we can vote the City Council out, but frankly, we won’t. A city council seat is near a life-time appointment in Seattle.
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So we have no guarantees that the Park District won’t tax to the limits of it’s authority and nor what they will spend it on.
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Why not a new levy, designed to address the maintenance backlog, with a 6 to 8 year period? Sticker-shock? Sure, but at least it would be an honest way to get the funds and we would vote on what was to be paid for.
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IMHO