Interested in future funding for Seattle Parks (and thus possibly pools)?  We’ve all been invited to a forum that will address future directions for investments in parks and green infrastructure.  Here’s the invite:

Seattle Great City Initiative’s "What it Takes" Forum Series:

Post Pro-Parks: What is Seattle’s Next Round of Green Infrastructure
Investments?

Thursday, January 17, 5:30 - 7:00
Seattle Public Library
1000 4th Avenue

Seattle is known as a ‘green city’ for its environmental leadership and for its natural beauty. As our city grows, and as the magnitude of our environmental challenges increases, it becomes ever more important that we incorporate more "green" into our planning—parks, open spaces and ecological restoration. But we know that money is always tight, and even more so with  the expiration of the Pro-Parks Levy in 2008.

Join a distinguished panel of local experts for a close look at "what it takes" to define and fund the most important new investments in parks, boulevards, and green infrastructure to ensure our city grows more beautiful and more environmentally sustainable.

Guest Panelists:
Council Member Tom Rasmussen, Chair of the Parks Committee
Bruce Blume, local property developer and board member of Seattle Parks Foundation
Jack Tomkinson, Neighborhood Parks Advocate, Director of Urban Sparks and founder of Fremont Peak Park
Nancy Rottle, Director of the UW’s Green Futures Lab, Co-director Open Space Seattle 2100

Moderator:
Brice Maryman, Landscape Architect, co-leader of Open Space Seattle 2100, and board member of the Seattle Great City Initiative.

We are proud to have the following cosponsors for this forum: Sierra Club,  Groundswell NW, Futurewise, Feet First, AIA Seattle, Friends of Seattle.

Seattle Great City Initiative is bringing together environmentalists, neighborhood advocates and business leaders to advocate for Seattle as a great place to live and work, and a model of economic and environmental sustainability.

The Seattle Great City Initiative is a program of the Cascade Land Conservancy and the Cascade Agenda. To learn more visit: www.greatcity.org