Harmonizing Many Voices

Via Facebook (search: Keep San Carlos' Parks Open) and your email networks, this community has awakened to the imminent swinging of the city's budget axe.  Make no mistake, the mayor, council members and city staff have signaled that Parks and Recreation will bear a disproportionate burden.  In fairness, the 'competition' is public safety.  With crime on the rise, in my neighborhood too, the choices are stark.  The old paradigm of fighting over fixed resources is a loser for our side.  Our only hope is to tap the entrepreneurial vein which runs deep in our community.

Fire up the email networks one more time, to encourage two channels of organization.

(1) Facebook is the place to speak.  Its utility is unmatched.  For those who want to be heard, create an account and search 'Keep San Carlos' Parks Open'.  There is nothing to it. 

(2) For those who want an executive summary or simply don't use facebook, bookmark http://keepsancarlosparksopen.blogspot.com/ to stay up to date on opportunities for action and to follow the emerging consensus.

To the 'turf war' partisans.... Both sides have demonstrated their love of our parks.  In the next battle we are allies.  Your skills and experience are valuable.  To the newly energized, the past two weeks has encouraged me that our numbers are great, our passions inflamed and the levers of democracy in a small town available to those with a unified voice.