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A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy

Setup: 22-Feb-2012 [1037]

• Possibly, a better way to govern public space

The conservancy ideas enumerated here have had no support from City Councillor Ana Bailao. Failing that, no such experiment can take place at this time.

See Conservancy News for August 2012

What do we want a parks conservancy to foster?

The basic idea of the Ward 18 Conservancy is to conserve the lessons learned by the staff operating certain Ward 18 parks (Dufferin, MacGregor, Campbell, Wallace) over the past decade or so.

These lessons include:

  • work together
  • support one another
  • make do with what's available if possible
  • stay in close touch with your co-workers and community
  • always work towards supporting community involvement, fairness, and equity
  • make welcoming places

These staff used to work as a semi-autonomous collective. This has now been stopped.

The benefits were: great results for the community (variety, efficiency, effectiveness), and a great working environment for staff.

What is at issue in the bureaucracy of cities

"Of course it is important to the political and social sciences that the essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of people, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is."

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Postscript.

For more detailed information, review the items in this topic (see the Contents page tab above).

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Kids in the sandpit at Dufferin Grove Park
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Ward 18 Parks, Recreation Centres, and Wading Pools, Toronto

Parks with wading pools have blue markers. The two ward recreation centres have fucia markers.


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A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy

Setup: 22-Feb-2012 [1037]

• Possibly, a better way to govern public space

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·2· Proposal: Ward 18 Conservancy  One office for Ward 18 parks and community centres

Description: The basic idea is to give control of Ward 18, with the current consolidated Ward 18 budget, to a supervisor (or team of supervisors) and give the supervisor latitude to run the ward a little differently

Part of: A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy

Date: 13-Aug-2012 [1616]

·3· Background: Ward 18 Conservancy

Description: While the city has been centralizing, some ward 18 parks have been operated by local staff with initiative. It's worked, and the conservancy would like to keep that going

Part of: A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy

Date: 18-Jul-2012 [1602]

·4· User View: Ward 18 Conservancy

Description: Programming would be a continuation of the patterns set over the past two decades. All the good things that will happen for the locals, based on what's been happening for years at Dufferin, Wallace, Campbell, MacGregor

Part of: A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy

Date: 18-Jul-2012 [1611]

·5· The Basics: Participatory Decision Making for Productive Outcomes

Description: A core lesson from the recent past is that giving everyone a say is very productive

Part of: A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy Management: Ward 18 Conservancy

Date: 20-Sep-2012 [6752]

·7· Regulatory View: Ward 18 Conservancy

Description: There is lots of enabling regulation to provide the flexibility that the conservancy seeks

Part of: A Ward 18 Parks Conservancy

Date: 18-Jul-2012 [1605]

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