Instead of playing soccer games in Cosmo Park, how about playing your games in Purina Park or maybe on the 3M Athletic Complex? It may not happen here in Columbia, MO but it could happen in Suffolk County NY.
As discussed in the Newsday.com website: "Lou D’Amaro (D-Huntington Station) has introduced a bill that would raise revenue by allowing businesses to sponsor suitable locations within county parks. Sponsorship would give business owners an opportunity to increase their exposure and involvement in the local community, while at the same time providing additional revenues for county parkland protection, management, and maintenance without raising taxes."
Considerations such as the type of business, sponsor amount and specific location are all critical to the success of such a venture. For example, many communities wouldn't want an adult bookstore as a sponsor but may be fine with sponsorships from alcohol products for adult sports leagues.
Not everyone is okay with this proposed legislation. In a blogger response, "Dale" states: "The trend of corporate sponsorship for civic spaces is very very troubling and simply plays to the fear our elected representatives have for responsible taxation, the short-sightedness of voters who want something for nothing, and the willingness of corporations to get inexpensive promotion."
Who knows what will happen down the road with this issue of corporate sponsorships? So maybe next spring, instead of planting your garden at Paquin or Fairview, you could be planting at Steel Reserve Park!
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Nobody really has a sense of humor when you have to constantly put up with those undesirable people pissing in the corner of a garden shed,scattering trash and beer cans or bottles all over your garden,panhandling money,invading your building to sleep in the stair wells or when and if you find used syringes or drug paraphernalia around a place where they should not be located and especially with in spitting distance of a school.
We the residents of Paquin Tower do not think any of the above is funny from any view point.
Can we change the name of Parks and Recreation to this too:
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored Parks.
I think it goes along with being green friendly and your seemingly ongoing mission to acquire land no matter what the cost to build more parks in our community.
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