Funny you should ask...
It sounds like we might not need a petition after all because our Community Board is already on our side. I spoke with Craig Hammerman today, the District Manager for our Community Board, and he said (note: Craig, please correct me if I'm wrong) that if we get him an official proposal for what we'd like to see done, he will ask the Park's Department for an estimate for how much it's going to cost. Then he will join us in lobbying our local representatives to provide the money (Bill DeBlasio, Marty Markowitz). He says that as long as we have a way to finance a project, the Park's Department won't have a problem with it. He also says that in Brooklyn we rarely have to raise a lot of money ourselves because our local representatives really help out. This is great news - for those who weren't at the meeting, we met several people at other dog runs in Manhattan who have been asked to raise as much as $100,000 on their own to get a run resurfaced!
From communication with other dog run members and a meeting with NYCDOG, Andrea and I have received a great deal of background research on various surfaces for dog runs. We are going to meet with the Resurfacing committee and decide on the best options and then post them to the blog when they're ready. Then we'd love if people would leave comments telling us if they approve of them or not, or if they have anything to add. I hope that sounds good to everyone.
If anyone would like to join the Resurfacing committee and have some input at our meeting, please let us know.
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