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To: Johnny Medlin <br />Carolyn Weiss <br />Carrie Peterson <br />Renee Grube <br />Andrea Riner <br />Cc: Mayor and City Council <br />Trevor Taylor <br />From: Mary O'Brien, for Citizens for Public Accountability <br />Date: 21 November 2003 <br />Re: Publicly Accountable Process for Amazon Park Decisionmaking <br />Citizens for Public Accountability recommends three publicly accountable steps to be <br />taken to arrive at decisions about recreation and restoration in Amazon Park, given that <br />there is so much division of opinion regarding the wisdom of intensification of <br />development of Amazon Park. These steps, none of them requiring extensive time on the <br />part of Parks and Recreation staff, would open the process to invite innovative thinking <br />beyond tinkering with a single staff proposal. <br />1. Collate critical existing information useful for development of a range of <br />reasonable options for Amazon Park, within the context of the City as a <br />whole. All information should be made readily accessible publicly, and <br />assumptions used in generating estimates should be transparent. <br />Key information- collating efforts would address such topics as: <br />a. Usage <br />(i) Determine Amazon Park acreage and building space <br />devoted to different types of activities and approximate <br />annual hours of usage of these spaces. Both organized and <br />informal, active and passive recreational activities should <br />be accounted for. <br />(ii) Estimate vehicle presence associated with different usages. <br />(iii) Estimate lighting power (e.g., height, brightness) associated <br />with different usages <br />b. Costs <br />(i) <br />Estimate costs of construction and maintenance of Amazon <br />Park areas devoted to different recreational activities. <br />(ii) <br />Determine approximate expenditures on these different <br />areas during the past 10 years within Amazon Park. <br />(iii) <br />Show approximate income to Recreation and Parks <br />associated with different recreational activities. <br />C. Ballfield data <br />(i) Create a map of current soccer, base /softball fields on <br />school and City properties and an inventory of ball fields <br />