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To: Jim Johnson CC: Andrea Riner, Phil Richardson RE: Spring Blvd Trailhead, Ridgeline Trail 2 October 2001 Dear Jim: On Friday Sept 21, at 5:30 PM, I was sent a copy of an email sent to you on August 29 purporting to clarify facts about the Ridgeline, and specifically, the destruction of the trailhead at Spring Blvd. The August 29 email contains gross misstatements of fact of which I take extreme exception. Specifically: 1. I contacted Parks Dept in December about the destruction of the Ridgeline Trail Spring Blvd Trailhead that had occurred months earlier in the summer. Other citizens and city staff had also attempted to alert the responsible managers for that public resource, but were eventually given my name because I was the person who wrote the grants and coordinated the 1400 volunteer labor hours of work clearing poison oak, cutting brush, cutting in trail and hauling gravel to build the trail and trailhead. 2. The sign, a custom built 2" thick board 5 ft long, anchored with 4x4" posts in two feet of concrete, was ripped from the ground and tossed in the brush for the better part of a year (Not "soon replaced "). Specialized auxiliary signage and the sign roof were destroyed and not replaced. The signage, now warped, was reinstalled without any oversight with cracked post, across the Spring Blvd right of way, without regard to existing specifications for trailhead design. The sign stood alone - the Ridgeline Trail no longer came to it. 3. The Dillard Rd to Spring Blvd section of the Ridgeline Trail was not built in "the 1980s "" as Ms Riner asserts. It was built in 1995. Mayor Bascom cut the ribbon. As mentioned, I coordinated the fund raising and citizen work that built it. 4. Contrary to Ms Riner's letter to you, Phil Richardson and I did converse by email and then telephone last December. Our conversations came to end when he told me that he could meet me to look at the site in one day, a workday, during midday, but that was it, he was leaving town for two weeks. I could not take off from work at the one specified opportunity. I was never contacted again.