QUESTION
How can parks be made more self-reliant with equipment and trained staff?
4:56:09
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Council Member Vickie Paladino suggests supplying smaller parks with necessary equipment like mowers, blowers, and edgers, and training staff to operate them. The commissioner acknowledges the practice of donating equipment for park workers' use.
- Paladino proposes making parks more self-reliant by providing equipment.
- She suggests training park staff to operate the supplied equipment.
- The commissioner confirms council members have donated equipment before.
- This approach is presented as a potential solution in budget-tight situations.
Vickie Paladino
4:56:09
I'm talking about for my district.
4:56:11
We've got bound Park.
4:56:12
We've got Francis Lewis Park, Crocheton is gigantic.
4:56:18
But if we go with us smaller parks, and we supplied the parkies or those that are qualified to drive.
4:56:25
And we give them the mower, the the ride on.
4:56:28
We give them the blowers.
4:56:30
We give them the edging.
4:56:32
Everything they need.
4:56:34
Are we allowed to do that?
Sue Donoghue
4:56:36
We do have comes from members who have donated equipment, I believe, in the past, that can be used by our workers.
4:56:45
Yeah.
Vickie Paladino
4:56:45
Because when we're in a crunch like we're in, we gotta cut that pie up.
4:56:49
We gotta figure out different ways to do things.
Erik Menjivar
4:56:52
Mhmm.
Vickie Paladino
4:56:52
And I think making a pie more self reliant
Sitra Bowman
4:56:54
Mhmm.
Vickie Paladino
4:56:55
And training those that are there to work the equipment, and perhaps they could go to more than one park if need be.
4:57:03
I think that may be one solution to purchasing the equipment
Justin Green
4:57:07
Mhmm.
Vickie Paladino
4:57:08
Teaching him out of fish, and they eat forever.
4:57:11
Right?
4:57:12
So I think if we were to do something like that, that would certainly help our situation where our parks go.
Sue Donoghue
4:57:17
Mhmm.
Vickie Paladino
4:57:18
Just a thought.
Sue Donoghue
4:57:19
Yep.
4:57:19
Thank you.
4:57:20
Okay.