From: Danny Horovitz <danny@...>
Subject: RE: [bones_dog_park] FW: Annual Membership Meeting and Work Day
To: bones_dog_park@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 8:58 AM

Sherette:

 

I agree.

 

Parks doesn't have the money to have staff open and close all year round. We have a large vandalism problem in the County Parks and Island Lake's bathrooms were destroyed and it cost many $10,000's to make repairs not  to mention park's staff time and effort to deal with the problem.

 

On the other hand I've proposed we have volunteers lock and unlock the bathrooms but that has not been a proposal Parks wants to consider right now. They are trying to just keep our parks open. When there are budget cuts, Parks is considered discrentionary spending and they are one of the first departments to be cut.

 

If you are interested in putting together a volunteer group to lock and unlock the toliet, I've got a few names from the last work party that are interested and I can put you in touch with Parks Staff …

 

thanks,

Danny

 

 

 

From: bones_dog_park@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:bones_ dog_park@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Sherette Main
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:16 AM
To: bones_dog_park@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: [bones_dog_park] FW: Annual Membership Meeting and Work Day

 

I don't think the schedule for the rest rooms is realistic. Dog parks are used all day - every day of the year. A dogpark is not seasonal! Sherette Main --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Danny Horovitz <danny@inkitsap. com> wrote: From: Danny Horovitz <danny@inkitsap. com> Subject: [bones_dog_park] FW: Annual Membership Meeting and Work Day To: danny@inkitsap. com Cc: "'Ginny'" <ginnyfitch@comcast. net> Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 8:25 AM Update on the bathroom at Howe:   from Lori Raymaker, volunteer coordinator Kitsap Parks,   The restrooms still need to be approved by the Kitsap Health Department, per Dori. Once they are approved, the park staff will handle opening, closing, and cleaning. These restrooms will follow the same schedule as the rest of our park restrooms which are open to the public from April through September. At the end of September, they will be "winterized" and closed for the winter along with the rest of the park restrooms.     and …   Please see the below about the board. We would like to have another member who primarily uses Howe on the board..   We are relatively painless as far as meetings go, once a year a board meeting (an evening), and once a year a membership meeting at Bandix. Other activities are by email and at the parks.   Danny   Bandix Dog Park Newsletter March, 2009   Hopefully winter is behind us and we can begin to really enjoy our park again.  With that hope in mind we have planned a work day and our Annual Membership Meeting and membership drive for April 4, 2009 at the park.  Attached is the notice about both.   With the opening of Howe Farm and the closure (if only for a couple of years) of Burley Olalla Road we hope we are not losing many of you from active membership in the park.  Your yearly membership donation is what allows us to keep the park open and operating.  Please try to renew your membership during April so we have a working budget for the next year. A membership renewal form is attached.   At the work day on April 4th some of us will be sporting the new Bandix tee shirt and sweatshirt.  Hopefully these will be available for sale on that day. Tee-shirts will be $12 and sweatshirts will be $35.00.  The design is very cool and the quality of the shirts is excellent – from the same folks who do the Tides shirts.   Even if you cannot attend the work day on the 4th in the morning, please try to attend the membership meeting at 11:00.  We need a quorum of members to conduct business and we need to elect two members as two board members terms are up for renewal or replacement.  If you are interested in serving on the board, please let Ginny Fitch know ASAP at ginnyfitch@comcast. net so she can add you to the ballot.   If you do not want to continue to receive Bandix news please let us know by responding to this e-mail so we can remove you from our lists.