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After spending over $6 million in 2002 to purchase and renovate a new headquarters building in order to centralize staff and save money, the Park Board is now decentralizing staff and adding a new layer of governance to the Park Board administration.
Pulse: Minneapolis Parks, Inc. -- Recent Commercialization Effort Draws Criticism
by Elaine Klaassen
Anyone who has been to the South Dakota Badlands and Black Hills realizes that it's one of the most beautiful areas in the country. Anyone who has been there also has noted that it's horribly commercialized, from signs in the roadways to cheap souvenir stands to fees just for driving down the highway. You leave the area with two thoughts: one, this is a special place, and two, it didn't take us long to ruin it.
Star Tribune: Park Board Headquarters Is Over Budget
Park Board headquarters is over budget The newly acquired building on the Minneapolis riverfront is costing $400,000 more than expected - so far. Published on May 10, 2003 By Rochelle Olson
Staff Writer
Sept. 15 Park Board Meeting Highlights
The September 15 meeting of the Park Board was more notable for its parliamentary and political maneuvering, than for outright fireworks.
At 5:00pm, the Administration and Finance Committee met and approved a variety of items with little discussion, except the purchase of 4 parking pay station machines. After some discussion about malfunction, ticketing, profitability and the public's uneasiness with the newer technology, this item also passed with comr. Walt Dziedzic voting no with the comment that there were "too many complaints."
August 18 Meeting Highlights
The meeting started at 5:00pm with the Planning Committee. Comr. Dziedzic is chairing it in Comr. Bob Fine's absence.
Request For Information About The New Park Board Headquarters Building
At the Wednesday, May 5 meeting, during open time for public comment, Arlene Fried made the following statement:
- When the new Park Board building was purchased in 2002, money was borrowed from both the Park Board's land acquisition fund and the self-insurance fund to help finance the purchase and rehabing of the new building. When and how will the Park Board begin repaying the land acquisition fund and the self-insurance fund for the money borrowed in 2002?
2002 Superintendent's Report Published
The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board's Superintendent's Report 2002 was distributed this past week.
- Yes, this is March 24, 2004 and the report is for 2002. There is no error in that date.
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