Winslow Park

City was awarded $500,000 from the Feds for Winslow Park and has committed another $125,000 of City monies for the park.

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Watching the City Council meeting tonight and City Manager O'Brien was talking about some city resources in particular the Parks Department. Some weeks, due to vacations/sick time/etc, all the parks are being cleaned by 6 people. Many of the councilors complained about the status of various parks, some only 4 or 5 years old.

I am not against parks, but if we are having a hard time cleaning the parks we have, should we be creating more parks especially when Elm Park is closeby. Add the fact that this has lots of commercial potential (Tax Revenues), which we need to maintain our fiscal stability (Manager's 5 year plan_.

In the end I simply do not see this making alot of sense.