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Partnerships with Trust for Public Land and other organizations
0:41:28
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Council Member Krishnan and Parks Department representatives discuss the department's partnerships with Trust for Public Land and other organizations.
- Overview of Trust for Public Land's involvement in the Schoolyards to Playgrounds program
- Discussion on different approaches to opening school playgrounds, including 'turnkey' sites
- Exploration of potential for expanding partnerships beyond the current program
Matt Drury
0:41:28
Trust Republic Land is obviously an important and helpful sort of advocate for open space.
0:41:33
So I think there's been a variety of fashions in which we've worked with them over the years and will continue to do so, we certainly hope.
0:41:40
I think in this context, their primary involvement working by and large through projects routed through the Schoolyards Playgrounds program where they provided some funding, privately raised funding, and is also advising helping provide design.
0:41:53
And those were for instances in which capital improvements were being made to a given site before it became open to the broader public.
0:42:01
But that's not the only approach to Schoolyards Playgrounds.
0:42:04
As the mayor noted, those 11 new sites are what you might call turnkey sites where I believe they're essentially just going to they are good, solid, great, safe, wonderful sites that are just going to open as is.
0:42:14
So is TPL, as I understand it, has been involved in a certain mode of this program or initiative.
0:42:21
But there are lots of other ways to engage with them and other park advocates and open space advocates.
0:42:26
And we're always open to those conversations.