The Quincy Park District Board met in a retreat session in July. According to the minutes of the meeting they plan to make some major changes in the properties the Park District owns.
The Women’s City Club at the corner of 16th & Maine may be sold. The Lorenzo Bull House was donated to QPD and left in their care. The property has not been kept up nor repairs made as needed through the years. Now they want to investigate selling it. Where will this leave the Art Center? The Quincy School District just sold the property down the street to land developers from Dallas. Will the Women’s City Club have the same fate?
Lenane Park is to be sold or traded. Where is Lenane Park? A search of the QPD website brings no answers.
The southwest portion of South Park is being looked at to be a dog park or traded for park space in southeast Quincy.
The Quincy Park District has a history of having very valuable items and properties donated to it and giving their word that these things will be taken care of and then they claim they don’t have the money. A current example is the Quincy Park Band stage. This very expensive item was donated to the Quincy Park Band. The Quincy Park District then took possession with the assurance they would maintain it and the reports are it has now fallen into disrepair.
The log cabins on Quinsippi Island are to be brought up to “code” or they must be removed. These cabins were donated to the Quincy Park District with the understanding that the QPD would maintain them. Years later when they were in disrepair a group of concerned citizens was formed to save these parts of our history. These folks have put thousands of dollars, not to mention thousands hours of labor into the revival of the log cabins. Friends of the Log Cabins have met all the recent requests of the QPD but every time they jump through one hoop, another hoop appears. It seems that a group that was formed to aid the Park District has become their foe.
Most Quincyans have fond memories of visiting the log cabins as children. Now, if the Quincy Park District has its way your children will not have the same opportunity.
Our taxes continue to rise but we can’t afford to keep up the properties we have? Something needs to be done…..any suggestions?
Quincy Tax Payer Said:
on August 20, 2011 at 12:00 am
If they can’t maintain the properties with the existing tax rate, then why not look for someone else to take care of them? I don’t see a problem with the Park District exploring options.
quincy citizen Said:
on August 21, 2011 at 11:32 pm
That would be an understandable opinion if the sites they were looking at were not being run and worked on by private groups. The “Freinds of The Log Cabins”, the Antique Car Museum and the Womens city group raise their own funds and do not use taxpayer money.