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Founder recounts Ton Dolly Park and Trail grants, endowment and restoration work
Summary
Cheryl Petty, who said she founded the Ton Dolly Park and Trail project, told the council about the project's 1990s grants, $14 million Southern Pacific Railroad payment to the state, $780,000 in additional fundraising she secured, and an endowment that has grown from about $250,000 to $350,000 to help pay for maintenance.
During public comment, Cheryl Petty described her long involvement with the Ton Dolly Park and Trail project and detailed the funding and stewardship arrangements that shaped the site. Petty said that "After this bill in 1991, the Southern Pacific Railroad paid $14,000,000 to California who turned around and granted those funds to the affected areas," and that she wrote a trustee-council grant in 1999 to restore riparian vegetation along the Upper Sacramento River at Upper Soda Springs. She told the council she served as the project's manager and, besides the main trustee-council grant, "I wrote all other grants and obtained $780,000 from public foundation and private sources."
Petty also described an endowment "started with about $250,000 and has grown to about 350,000 while paying out annually to the city of Dunsmuir for maintenance." She offered to return for a fuller presentation, and several commenters — including an online resident and a Main Street business owner — thanked her for the work and urged the council to support continuing park and downtown revitalization efforts.
