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Aug 5 Original notice: Our Park is Broke
posted August 5, 2004
Announcement: OUR PARK IS BROKE (sign posted in park August 5, 2004)
Wading pool closed until further notice. Programs, most pizza days, clubs, cancelled.
The Farmer's Market is NOT cancelled.
Our park staff budget is all used up because:
- too many people come to the park and it has gradually turned into a community centre without the budget for that (compare: Dufferin Grove Park: $80,000 year-round; Kew Gardens, twice our size, $414,533; Wallace-Emerson and McCormick Community Recreation Centres together, $1.27 million)
- we hired more workers to staff the park-as-community-centre-without-walls
- the workers were not high school students
- we paid the workers twice the minimum wage because they had to do so many different things (but still less than the park litter staff)
I couldn't do as much free work because of writing my book
- The summer's rainy weather reduced our food income, which would have helped pay for the workers
- We used too much of our pizza money to pay workers to fix broken picnic tables, paint benches, and weed gardens, for which there is no budget in the city
- People, including little kids and youth, talk to the recreation staff too much and that keeps the staff from just attending to their chores
- We have too many free permits and free picnic paces
IF THIS TROUBLES YOU, COME TO FRIDAY NIGHT SUPPER AUGUST 6, BETWEEN 6 p.m. TO 8 p.m., TO TALK ABOUT THIS PROBLEM.
Pay what you can (more is better).
If you can't come, give your ideas on our park web site discussion forum: community.dufferinpark.ca (find a forum called "The Park's Financial Troubles") or on the dufferingrovefriends list serve, or call the park at 416 392-0913 to leave a message, or e-mail us at info@dufferinpark.ca.
Jutta