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Clark County and Vancouver outline regional parks task team to study sustainable funding and system gaps
Summary
Clark County staff and Vancouver Parks officials told the council they will form a countywide task team to evaluate regional parks needs, benchmark systems elsewhere, and recommend sustainable funding models. The process will include data collection, outreach and a six-month task-team phase followed by community engagement.
Clark County and City of Vancouver officials on June 2 outlined a new, countywide effort to evaluate regional parks needs and funding options and asked each city to participate in a task team that will assess gaps, study national models and propose sustainable approaches.
Speakers from Vancouver and Clark County described rapid population growth in the region, the countywide mix of large regional parks and local city parks, and the need to consider the park system in a regional context rather than strictly within jurisdictional lines.
“People don’t think about jurisdictional boundaries when they go to a park,” Vancouver Parks Director Dave Perlick said. “We have an opportunity to…
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