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Volunteers urge committee to clarify parks’ plans for environmental‑education levy funding
Summary
Two public commenters who work or formerly worked as Urban Nature Guides told the committee they are concerned parks may not use levy funds to preserve the program’s nine positions and asked the committee to request a parks presentation on how levy money will be spent on environmental education.
Maggie Johnson, a volunteer Urban Nature Guide with Seattle Parks’ environmental education program, told the Parks, Public Utilities & Technology Committee on July 23 that volunteers and program supporters are worried parks administration may not follow through on levy‑backed funding for staff positions.
"We are so grateful to you, the council and to the mayor's office for deciding that our program is critically important for the youth of our city and must be saved," Johnson said. She said the mayor's office included funding for nine staff positions in the school levy but that Parks had instructed a program manager to prepare a work…
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