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 Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: Spokane Park Board Downsizes Bond |
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*** Spokane Park Board Downsizes Bond ***
Spokane, Washington -- 08/10/2007
The Spokane City Council has less than a week
to approve a revised park bond measure before
it goes out to voters on the November ballot.
There are two major changes. That means there will
not be a $26 million indoor aquatics pool and an $11
million promenade at Riverfront Park.
The promenade was supposed to be a nice little walkway
at the park. But with an $11 million price tag and the disgruntled
voices at Monday night's council meeting, the promenade, along
with an indoor aquatics pool, are out.
The Spokane Parks Board scaled down the bond measure
from $78 million to $40 million at a meeting on Thursday.
City councilman Rob Crow, a big supporter of parks and
recreation, was at that meeting. He says it was a sensible
move to take out the promenade and the indoor aquatics
pool, at least for now.
“I think they heard a lot, both personally calls they had
received and discussions they had with citizens,” Crow
says. “There was a lot of sentiment heard at the council
meeting on Monday.”
With very few details on either project, Crow didn't think
the bond measure would pass with voters, even though there
was a lot of support on Monday night for what could've been
the first ever indoor aquatics pool in Spokane.
“Frankly, many of the park board members were not
even today aware of what it would entail,” Crow said.
Crow doesn't expect any further changes. The council
will now have to approve or amend the bond measure.
That measure now includes adding softball and soccer fields,
a BMX track and a skateboard park at Joe Albi Stadium.
That will cost $7 million.
The plan also includes improving youth baseball
fields at city parks, which will cost $3 million.
Improving pools are a big part of the plan. That includes
replacing the five existing neighborhood pools in Spokane,
making room for 10 new splash pads in various city parks
and building a new pool in northwest Spokane. That will
cost $30 million.
If the city council gives it the go ahead Monday night,
voters will get to vote in November to decide whether
these projects are definately necessary.
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