Can You Run Parks Like A Business?

If King County, Seattle, wants to keep its parks, it needs to make money from them, a task force says.

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June 13, 2002, 3:00 PM PDT

"If King County wants to keep its treasured parklands open in a money-parched future, it must operate like a business, raising user fees for ballfields, adding restaurants to some parks and shedding the burden of others to local cities, a task force said yesterday. But parks are not a lucrative business, so the county should ask property owners next year to increase the property tax to keep the system financially stable in the long run, the report said."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: County told to run parks like a business

Thursday, June 13, 2002 in The Seattle Times

Government / Politics Washington

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