Which is also posted to our website.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release August 27, 2013 Sacramento, California
Open Letter to Sacramento County Board of Supervisors
This letter is to express our strong support for increasing the size of the park ranger force in the American River Parkway.
Over the past year, you have conducted a dedicated response to the long-term and wide-spread illegal camping by the homeless in the North Sacramento area of the American River Parkway, for which you are to be heartily applauded.
However, the work is ponderously ongoing and more needs to be done, and—as you well know—more rangers on the ground are needed to do it, as well as to solidify the gains already made.
Fortunately, there has been some improvement in the local economy and we assume this means there will be more funds available for important local issues.
Other than being known as the state capital of California, the American River Parkway is arguably our next best claim to fame from a tourist’s perspective; and should further encourage your action ensuring it is safe and beautiful from the confluence to Folsom Lake.
The most important reason is to finally provide a safe and beautiful Parkway experience to the adjacent and long-suffering communities of North Sacramento.
While our organization still feels the permanent solution for the Parkway is to have an independent nonprofit organization be responsible for daily management and philanthropic supplemental fund raising modeled on the Central Park Conservancy managing the globally renowned Central Park in New York City, we are very gratified by your work improving public safety in the North Sacramento area of the Parkway over the past year.
We respectively urge you, during your upcoming budget hearings, to provide more funding for park rangers in the American River Parkway to enhance that work.
Organizational Leadership
American River Parkway Preservation Society
Sacramento, California
August 27, 2013
Contact Information
David H. Lukenbill, Senior Policy Director
American River Parkway Preservation Society
2267 University Avenue
Sacramento, CA95825
P: 916-225-9087 E: Dlukenbill@man.com
W: www.arpps.org B: http://www.riverparkwayblog.wordpress.com
