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Mound council says parks-review workshop aimed at strategy, denies plan to sell parks
Summary
City leaders told residents at the Sept. 9 meeting that a recent parks workshop was a high-level strategy session, not a plan to sell parks; council scheduled a public workshop Oct. 23 to clarify next steps for a handful of small parcels.
Several residents raised alarms this month after a parks workshop aired on local media and was described online as discussion of selling parks. At the Sept. 9 Mound City Council meeting, Mayor Holt and other council members said the workshop was meant as a high-level strategy conversation about how to use and maintain small parcels the city currently owns, not as a directive to sell public parks.
The council said the workshop—initiated earlier this year by two council members to get ideas on long-term strategy—identified a short list of small, little-used parcels and open spaces for further study. "It was a workshop for us to just chat about because we…
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