Park Maintenance Funding and Possible Bond

Your emails are needed! Tell the Council to allow Parks staff to develop a proposal for increased park maintenance for the spring budget hearings and a project list for a park bond measure. The Council will hear a report on Park Maintenance this Tuesday Feb.28, Item 5.1,  There are two memos asking for council action. 

The first memo asks staff to develop a detailed budget proposal for adding $3.5 Million to Park Maintenance budget for consideration in this spring's budget process. The council must vote to allow this. Here's a link to the memo written by council members Jimenez and Rocha:

http://sanjose.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&event_id=2673&meta_id=619604

The second memo asks staff to begin preparations for a park bond for 2018 election cycle. Here's a link cosigned by the Mayor and Councilmembers Rocha and Jimenez:

http://sanjose.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?meta_id=619606

Write an email to the Mayor and Council members. Tell them to authorize Parks staff to develop a budget proposal and a list of projects for a future parks bond.  Send your emails to:

mayoremail@sanjoseca.gov
District1@sanjoseca.gov
District2@sanjoseca.gov
District3@sanjoseca.gov
District4@sanjoseca.gov
District5@sanjoseca.gov
District6@sanjoseca.gov
District7@sanjoseca.gov
District8@sanjoseca.gov
District9@sanjoseca.gov
District10@sanjoseca.gov

Attend the meeting if you can.  It starts at 1:30 pm, but this item 5.1 is not expected until after 3 pm.  They meet in City Hall's council chamber. Free parking underground!

For the parks,
Jean Dresden