Posts tagged Dpr
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DC DPR wants feedback on parks. Give them yours
Do you use your local park, rec center or pool? Have you encountered any problems? If you don’t use them, why not? The Department of Parks and Recreation needs to hear from you to make its facilities better. Most complaints I hear about DPR facilities concern upkeep or the attitude of park employees. But there are a lot of parks and a lot of staff, many short-term, running… Keep reading…
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Parks, including downtown, get attention and funding
DC’s budget for next year has some great news for fans of parks, including people clamoring for better parks and playgrounds in the growing, and increasingly residential, downtown area. The DC Council Committee on Libraries, Parks, Recreation and Planning, which Tommy Wells chairs, unanimously passed its budget this morning and gave funding to several key priorities,… Keep reading…
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Talk DC parks with the Park Service on Saturday
Do you have thoughts about how your local federally-controlled park could be better? Have you tried to organize any activities and run into a bureaucratic brick wall? Or does your park just not serve the needs of your community? Chances are, if you live in DC, your local park is run by the National Park Service. It’s an agency that makes few efforts to reach out to local communities,… Keep reading…
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Who will stand up for recreation center users?
DC’s Department of Parks and Recreation is getting a lot of attention from top city managers at the moment, but it’s all about a grass cutting contract and not about the real issue: DPR is severely underfunded to carry out its mission. DPR’s operating budget for 2012 cuts nearly $5 million (14.1%) and 69 full-time equivalent staff (12.0%) from DPR. That’s… Keep reading…
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The difference between DPR and NPS: responsiveness
After my article yesterday on the DC Department of Parks and Recreation’s maintenance problems with parks, both grounds manager Derek Schultz and director Jesús Aguirre reached out to talk further. This stands in stark contrast to the National Park Service, which hasn’t engaged with parks advocates despite frequent efforts. Schultz wrote in an email… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trouble with nonprofits
Not that type of service; Tighter rules for nonprofits?; Bikeshare in Bethesda?; Improve a small triangle; New faces around Gray; Georgetown ANC drama continues; Greater Washington is majority minority; And…. Keep reading…
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It’s parks AND recreation, not just recreation
The National Park Service lets down DC residents in many ways when it comes to managing the many neighborhood parks in DC. However, unfortunately DC’s Department of Parks and Recreation hasn’t yet shown it can do a lot better when it comes to maintaining parks. In some ways, they certainly do better. DC-run parks are often far better designed for the needs of residents,… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Getting serious about parks
Tourmobile’s end “likely”; A tale of two parks; Numerology of bus transit; DC’s gays live closer to downtown; Maryland and counties duel on Smart Growth; Floridians run for their lives; Suburban poverty rising; The ultimate environmentally destructive highway; Capital cities unfairly reviled; And…. Keep reading…