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LOREM IPSUM DOLOR
CONSEQUAT VENIAM NOSTRUD
ASHLAND RECALL
Parks and Recreation Commissioners
Mike Gardiner
Jim Lewis
Rick Landt
RECALL
Lithia Park Threatened
The #4 Reason for the Recall of Ashland Parks Commissioners
With disregard for public concern, APRC voted to spend $230,000 for a Portland consultant to decide the fate and future design of Lithia Park, threatening specific historic sites in our beloved crown jewel.
Begun with only eight acres in 1892, Lithia Park now boasts 93 acres and is the “crown jewel” of Ashland. According to Don Robertson, former director of Ashland Parks and Recreation until his retirement in 2014, “Without Lithia Park, Ashland wouldn’t be Ashland. It is literally the heart and soul of our town.”
APRC Director Michael Black has hired a Portland consultant for $230,000 to create a plan that will affect Lithia Park for the next 100 years. According to a Tidings article (Aug. 17), Michael Black calls it “a ginormous plan,” citing the historic Perozzi fountain as the first project. Black says, “We want to restore and ensure it perseveres,” yet in the same article he states that it might be moved inside or replaced with something new; that it will be based on what the consultant recommends. How about basing it on what the people of Ashland recommend? (Other areas: the bandshell, “neglected” rose garden, Japanese garden, tennis court, walkway system, century-old log cabin, etc. (http://www.dailytidings.com/news/20170817/council-oks-230k-lithia-park-study).
After seeing how APRC mis-used the 2016 Performance Audit to make harmful Senior Program changes with little public input, how confident are you that APRC will protect our crown jewel?
Go to AshlandSOS.com to read more about what APRC did to the Senior Program.