Welcome!
Welcome to the Metropolitan Parks Task Force Web site. The links from these pages will provide you with information on our members, meetings and objectives, along with detailed information on King County’s 2002 budget shortfall and data on the parks system in King County.
Parks and recreation opportunities are key to the quality of life we enjoy here in King County, but as a non-mandated service, remain threatened due to the county’s budget shortfall. In March of this year, King County Executive Ron Sims and King County Councilmembers Carolyn Edmonds and Larry Phillips asked us to assemble a team of individuals who could provide recommendations to King County concerning how its parks and recreation facilities and open space should be owned, operated and funded in the future, and how to eliminate the reliance of these parks and facilities on the County’s diminishing County Current Expense (CX) revenues.
The Metropolitan Parks Task Force is a sixteen-member group comprised of business and community leaders from around King County. We are reviewing all aspects of parks funding mechanisms and will present our preliminary recommendations to the Executive and Council in mid-June for consideration in the 2003 budget cycle.
We hope that you will find the links attached useful and interesting. Further, we encourage you to use the contact page to provide input to the Task Force. We are seeking ideas and input from the citizens of King County through letters, emails, a special hotline and this website. We encourage you to visit the ‘Contact MPTF’ link and share with us your ideas for sustaining parks and recreation opportunities in King County.
Thank you for your interest in this important issue.
Bob Wallace, Task Force Co-Chair
Gene Duvernoy, Task Force Co-Chair
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