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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Calibri">Thanks, Lisa. I talked with
Brandon today and asked him where the original CIP request had
gone because I knew it had originally been unfunded for 2020
and moved to another year. Brandon told me that when updating
the proposed budget it somehow hadn't transferred over. So
that mystery was solved.</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/8/2019 12:07 PM, Lisa Larsen via
Electronic-lan wrote:<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please note that I have requested that
the Burroughs Creek Splash Pad be funded for 2021. It is
part of the recommended budget that will be presented
tomorrow night at the City Commission meeting.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I was on the 2017 Committee for the
Parks & Rec Master Plan when this was listed as a
short-mid term need. I have tried to get it in the budget
each of the subsequent years and will keep pushing for it. I
believe these types of small community gathering and play
areas are vital to adding to our healthy built environment
and addressing some of the equity issues that have been
shown in our Community Health Equity Report.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">My grandkids live and Texas and
whenever I visit, we always go to the local splash park.
These are immensely popular!</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please attend or watch our meeting
tomorrow night. This will be discussed.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Lisa
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</span>Mayor<span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">City of Lawrence, Kansas</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">785.331.9162</p>
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on behalf of daisy mae via Electronic-lan
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 8, 2019 9:21:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu">electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Electronic-lan] Eastside Splash Park</font>
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<div class="PlainText">So glad you asked. We are so frustrated
by the Parks and Rec. staff decision to postpone the
Eastside splash park/water feature planned for Burroughs
Creek Park at 15th and the trail. They budgeted it for 2023
even though it has been in the Burroughs Creek Trail Plan
for at least 10 years; in collaboration with Brook Creek,
East Law, Barker and The Woods neighborhoods.<br>
This is not a big ask. A Splash Park is simply a flat
surface with water jets squirting up from the ground and on
brightly colored poles arranged at different levels for
kids, teens and adults. The water squirts at random times to
surprise and giggles abound. It is a refreshing place for
all ages, the water is filtered and recirculated (low cost),
maintenance is minimal and parks all around the world have
had them for many, many years.<br>
When I've visited these in Topeka and KC, grandparents sit
in lawn chairs in the sprays, tiny kids with caretakers are
gleeful (water drains immediately so a lifeguard is not
required) and it is free to all.<br>
There is NO water/cooling place in Lawrence for kids from
Mass to the Industrial Park.<br>
This is an obvious equity issue. For example, Bright Star
Day Care, for the poorest little kids, takes three to five
year olds on three city buses to get to the wading pool in
South Park.<br>
The neighborhood, private pool near the fairgrounds closed
last year because donations and volunteers just couldn't do
it anymore.<br>
With global warming, there is and will be a bigger need for
cooling places especially for lower income families/seniors.<br>
The recent actions of the City Commission to require Parks
and Rec to engage their board in decision making and the
board's report emphasizing the obvious inequity issues in
the Parks and Rec budget gives me some hope. Have they sold
off the unpopular, $85,000
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plastic skating rink to some other community to raise funds?
Have they sought private/corporate sponsorships to help with
funding?<br>
We're not asking for an "aquatic center" simply a water
feature on the Eastside.<br>
Yours in 90 degree heat, K T Walsh<br>
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bring about a higher life in our American cities is that he must
take an active part in managing the affairs of his own city."</i>
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