The following was received from Helen Liggett, Chair of Aesthetics.
Parks Board Meeting,
Tuesday, September 28, 2010, noon,
City Hall,
Committee Room 103,
1625 13th Street
The Aesthetics Committee for the Neighborhood Association will be on the Agenda of the Parks Board meeting to update the Parks Board before it makes a decision on the Pavilion at Wagner Park.
Parks and Recreation is planning to spend $65,000 on a pavilion at Wagner Park. The current plan is to demolish the historic pavilion and construct (such as seen in South Lubbock parks) a concrete pad with a metal peaked roof and no walls, no bathrooms, no storage and no acoustic features. The Neighborhood Association has overwhelmingly voted to plead with the City to spend that money instead on enhancing the current asset of the pavilion with bathrooms.
The Parks Board is quite resistant to the request of the Neighborhood Association, as it would mean Wagner Park users would continue to benefit from the highly valuable asset of the bathrooms, when the City does not have the funds to confer this benefit on other parks. In other words, every park wants bathrooms, but the City can't afford to build them in every park, so their solution is to demolish bathrooms in the few parks that are lucky enough to have them.
Please attend and show your support for Wagner Park and its current pavilion. Make no mistade, the City will demolish this asset unless we show them that users of Wagner Park are not apathetic and will demand to be heard. Folks from all over Lubbock love and use Wagner Park. Don't let the city take away your assets because of political lethargy!
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