Clean Up crew members Abel and Jorge are part of the Power Inn Alliance adopt-a-park effort to augment City maintenance of Granite Regional Park. |
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For Immediate Release 11/11/09
Contact: Dawn Carlson, 453-8888
ALLIANCE ADOPTS; CLEANS UP GRANITE REGIONAL PARK
In the face of a 50% reduction in maintenance staff and budget by the City’s Park Maintenance Division, the Power Inn Alliance has “adopted” Granite Regional Park on a temporary basis as one of its regular clean-up zones. The two-man Clean Up crew regularly drives through Granite Park and removes approximately one bag of trash and debris daily. In addition, they seine the pond for cans and paper.
“We’re going to police the park for three months and then make a determination as to value and whether or not to continue,” said Alliance Program Manager Dawn Carlson, who oversees the Clean Up and Adopt-A-Road programs. “This is the only park in our district and we’re pretty proud of it,” she said.
The effort is part of a $90,000 annual Alliance program for regular trash and debris clean up and landscape maintenance throughout the Business Improvement District. The result has been to create an area that has one of the least number of calls for illegal dumping in the City. The program is supported by funds from the tax assessed district and voluntary support of the Adopt-A-Road signs.
Granite Regional Park is the result of a public-private partnership in the ‘80s between the City, which had no money to develop another park, and Granite Land Co., Seperovich-Domich and Panattoni Development Co. Granite Land had been mining gravel at the site for years and the City was in a quandary over what to do with the hole in the ground. Enter the partnership which said they’ll build-out a first class park equaling the same square footage as their four-building development along Power Inn Rd.
To date, the development is way ahead of schedule. The first phase opened in 1997 and consisted of three soccer fields, a pond and fountain and a dog park, which quickly became the most popular in the City. Phase II added artificial turf and lights to one of the soccer fields plus a skate board park that is considered the best west of the Rockies.
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