May 6, 2008
THE CITY OF MEMPHIS PARKS DEPARTMENT INACTION?
I received the following email recently from Walter Broadfoot who has an office next to this City of Memphis Park. He has tried to purchase this property in the past but the City will not give him the time of day. Finally he and his neighbors took some action which the City has refused to do for years. He sent this email to the City Council members. Please note the pictures.
Here are a few before & after pictures of concerned neighbors cleaning up at the park at the corner of Madison, Belvedere & Lockett. The Park Commission has never done anything but cut the grass. Trees, weeds & bushes had taken over our park which gave the homeless a place to drink, shoot up & sleep it off. As you can see now there will no where for them to hide. We have removed the bushes, trees & the stumps have been ground out. All paid for by the concerned citizens living in our neighborhood. Our next project is to kill the weeds & plant Bermuda grass & some flowers. This park has been in this condition for decades & if private enterprise was responsible for its maintenance it would have been maintained properly. We will be keeping you updated as the improvements continue.
PS - The cutting of the trees, weeds & bushes & grinding the stumps out took a total of 2 hours at a total cost of $1,580.00 which we paid for. Please do not feel that this must be paid back, we would not want to burden the city or WW with any more debt.
Thanks,
Walter
Walter M. Broadfoot, Jr.
THE CITY OF MEMPHIS PARKS DEPARTMENT INACTION?
I received the following email recently from Walter Broadfoot who has an office next to this City of Memphis Park. He has tried to purchase this property in the past but the City will not give him the time of day. Finally he and his neighbors took some action which the City has refused to do for years. He sent this email to the City Council members. Please note the pictures.
Here are a few before & after pictures of concerned neighbors cleaning up at the park at the corner of Madison, Belvedere & Lockett. The Park Commission has never done anything but cut the grass. Trees, weeds & bushes had taken over our park which gave the homeless a place to drink, shoot up & sleep it off. As you can see now there will no where for them to hide. We have removed the bushes, trees & the stumps have been ground out. All paid for by the concerned citizens living in our neighborhood. Our next project is to kill the weeds & plant Bermuda grass & some flowers. This park has been in this condition for decades & if private enterprise was responsible for its maintenance it would have been maintained properly. We will be keeping you updated as the improvements continue.
PS - The cutting of the trees, weeds & bushes & grinding the stumps out took a total of 2 hours at a total cost of $1,580.00 which we paid for. Please do not feel that this must be paid back, we would not want to burden the city or WW with any more debt.
Thanks,
Walter
Walter M. Broadfoot, Jr.
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1:59 PM
1 Comments:
To those that did the improvements to the park, thank you very much. I live in the area and have thought about just taking action in spite of the city before myself. I wish I would have known this was going to happen and I would have come and helped.
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