This week in the office i was working n finding parks AGAIN, and I noticed something. In the city of Phoenix there is no charge to reserve picnic areas in the parks but in the city of Tempe there are fees. I dont know about you guys but I have noticed a dramatic difference in the quality of parks between the two city's and maybe its not a bad idea to charge fees because it goes towards the up keep of the parks. If you visit the parks in these two place you would probably think the same thing.
One the job site this week we started two more houses making it a total of nine houses being built right now in the Phoenix Ora Vista community. Now, I'm not sure if it was a full moon or something but it was the wierdest day Saturday. I just don't understand why you would volunteer and come out at 6am to build house and be a jerk about it. If you dont want to be here don't because we don't want to have to deal with you. Also we get a lot of churches around the valley that sponsor a house and its amazing but they always bring too many poeple to their site which is a saftey issue for us and its too hard for our skilled leaders to manager that many unskilled volunteers. We have tryed numerus times to explain this to the church groups but it never changes anything, how do we change this ?
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Do you know what the "fees" are with the City of Tempe? There are different classifications for parks, especially those that feature picnic areas or ramadas. It is difficult to get residents to approve of paying fees, especially when it is for a PUBLIC park....many residents cannot afford to pay a fee for using a picnic area. These are public areas, and I don't believe residents should have to worry about having to pay to use it, they already do through their taxes. Perhaps, donations could help with the upkeep of parks, but given the current budget crisis, we're all going to see its effects on our cities, especially our parks.
ReplyDeleteI think you should take advantage of all those extra volunteers and plan ahead to have extra volunteer oppotunities to put those volunteers to work.
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