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Colorado Springs Utilities Community Focus Fund has approved a grant for $1,000 to be used for our Sustainable Parks Initiative. The Community Focus Fund is a community outreach program that provides financial assistance, used computer donations and employee volunteer hours in support of local educational and nonprofit organizations. TOSC will use the money to move our Sustainable Parks Initiative forward. We are conducting regular meetings with elected officials, stakeholders and neighborhood groups as we seek to find the right "park district model" for our community.
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The Trails and Open Space Coalition is leading a citizen effort to determine the need and support for a regional solution to address parks and recreation funding and service level issues. There are several options being studied and TOSC has developed a short survey to gauge community awareness and opinions about this issue. The link provided below will take you to the survey. If you would fill out the survey and provide your opinion on this issue it would be greatly appreciated. www.surveymonkey.com/s/BYGRSVB
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The Trails and Open Space Coalition has sent a letter to Colorado Springs Utilities raising concerns about their "recreation concept plan" for the south slope of Pikes Peak. In the letter, TOSC said the plan should "state CSU’s commitment to helping complete the Ring the Peak trail, especially since the concept was first envisioned in public form in CSU’s own Pikes Peak Multi-Use Plan (Sept. 1999)."
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 Amazing what nearly a century of unregulated dumping can create!
Phyllis and Jeff Cahill are the main motivating force that has greatly improved the look of this old farm dump site.
They continue to lead volunteers each Sunday, from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. in the clean up effort. The farm dump is adjacent to Corral Bluffs.
To date they've recycled 6 tons of metal, 2 1/2 tons of wood, 1 ton of tires, 3 tons of concrete and numerous large boxes of glass and plastic.
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With trash cans gone in most neighborhood parks due to budget cuts, volunteers are coming forward offering to help. Local resident Steve Immel is trying to get neighbors to pitch in and contribute a little time and "elbow grease." He has set up a website - "Proud of our Parks" to give potential volunteers a way to donate their time and energy. Immel hopes the idea catches on and all of Colorado Springs' neighborhood parks can be adopted. For more information:
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