INC PARC (parks and rec committee) met November 20,2018 at 6:00pm-7:30pm at Brookdale U.Park,2020S. Monroe St. Present were co-chairs Maggie Price and Cindy Johnstone, Katie and Steve Fisher,Ronnie Crawford,Ean Tafoya,Helene Orr, Greg Sorensen Our guest speaker was Deborah Turner from Denver Public Works Capital Project Management. Deborah Turner gave a presentation on Denver CIP sidewalk Gap Program. It is available … Continue reading →
INC PARC (parks And Rec Committee) met October 16 at 6 p.m. at Brookdale UPark, 2020 S. Monroe St. Present were co-chairs Maggie Price and Cindy Johnstone, George Mayle, Marlene Johnson, Ronnie Crawford, Ean Tafoya, Diana Helper, Katie and Steve Fisher, Jay and Kathleen Rust, Nancy Francis, and guest Leslie Twarogowski from Denveright. An outline for discussion of Denveright’s Parks … Continue reading →
INC PARC (Parks and Recreation Committee) met September 18, 2018 at Brookdale Univ. Park. Present were: Co-chair Maggie Price, Diana Helper, Ronnie Crawford, George Mayle, Helene Orr, Ean Tafoya, and Kailyn Lamb. Maggie called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. Guest speaker: Jennifer Williams, Sr. Engineer Public Works, working with the US Army Corps of Engineers on a feasibility … Continue reading →
Dan Goldhamer an expert horticulturist, gave an illustrated talk including information on the physiological effects of drought, types of soil, plants that do best with less water, best way to water –deeply and infrequently, to mulch thinly farther from trees (not a clump at the base), and said CSU Extension is a source of help for answers to many questions we may have.
Removing City Council from vote on DPR park use issues seemed easy a few years back, but putting the vote back in City Council is harder. Still, it is a necessary move, to give citizens a local elected voice. INC and PARC & ZAP are persevering. Also the public needs to know details on park budget expenses.
Proposed dedicated parks tax floated by CM Jolon Clark. Clark’s proposal would increase the city’s sales tax rate by 0.25 percent, or 2.5 cents per $10 purchase. That would bring the effective sales tax to 7.9 percent on regular purchases.
Harriet described the process and importance of creating the Conservancy for this 71-mile-long historic canal which dates to the 1880s and was originally an irrigation ditch for agriculture. It begins at Waterton Canyon and ends at the S. Platte, north of DIA. Today it runs through four jurisdictions each of which has signed on to the Conservancy project and takes an active part. The water it receives from Waterton is regulated by Urban Drainage and Flood Control engineers
INC PARC will introduce a resolution concerning Park Hill Golf Course at the May 2018 meeting. The resolution calls upon the public officials of the City and County of Denver to take all actions necessary to preserve the perpetual Park Hill Gold Course (PHGC) land open space conservation easement protections that the City acquired in 1997 from Clayton for $2 million
