This measure renews funding for more than 250 parks, playfields, swimming pools, and hands-on learning destinations, in every city and across rural King County. Your vote will fund essential maintenance, update restrooms and playgrounds, expand ballfields and sport courts, provide programs for families, and improve safety with additional park rangers.
Healthy and Safe Places to Play and Learn– For All: Our parks, playgrounds, ballfields, trails and swimming pools are essential places for kids to play, learn to swim, and for our communities to gather, recreate and enjoy nature.
Protecting our Forests, Water, and Climate: As our region continues to grow, it is essential that we act now to preserve and protect our last forests, farmlands, open spaces and waterways. This levy protects these treasured landscapes, and provides a model for regional climate action.
Equitable Investments in Trails and Parks: Your Yes vote will expand our regional trail system, improve access to popular hiking and biking areas, and provide direct resources for parks and playfields for cities large and small.
Accountable and Impactful: This measure builds on over two decades of successful levies, and will cost an average homeowner around $2.50 more per month than the current, expiring levy - a small investment in our health, environment, and quality of life. Levy investments are independently audited for accountability with annual public reporting from the Parks Oversight Committee.
This renewal is endorsed by Executive Braddock and Mayors countywide, city and county council members, The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, WA Trails Association, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Mountains to Sound Greenway, League of Women Voters, Seattle Parks Foundation, SplashForward, KC Play Equity Coalition, unions, and more!
Submitted by: Rod Dembowski, Tracy Myers, Susan Pappalardo, www.yeskcprop1.com
