Community Relations and Recreation Committee

We believe the borough government should establish a community relations and recreation committee. The committee would be responsible for communicating with the community about the affairs of Borough government and planning community activities. It will be chaired by a council member and will be made up of members of the community.

Communication with Residents

the Borough of Parkside as lead by the current council does a very poor job of communicating with the residents of our community. A print newsletter has not been distributed in over a year (despite the fact that Borough paid to publish them). The website is not updated on a regular basis. The website does not include basic information like the annual borough budget, the date and time of the borough council meetings and community events, the dates of trash collection, and detailed instructions on how to dispose of household waste. If the Democratic candidates are elected to borough council we intend to dramatically improve the website and keep it updated regularly. We will send out periodic email information to any one who would like to join the email list. Drop boxes with printed versions of the email newsletters will be set-up at both the fire house and the borough building. The website will include detailed information on how to dispose of every type waste a household may create. The budget and the amount of money spent to date will be kept up to date on the website at least monthly. All relevant documents for the monthly council meetings will be posted in advance of the meetings and all documents seen by Council members during the meeting will be available to all community members at the meetings.

Community Activities

We would like to continue holding three or four community wide events each year. We believe the current events are well organized but there is also room for improvement. Having an entire committee working on events will allow work more work to get done by distributing tasks among many members of the community. A better use of the funds allocated to the holiday decorating contest would be a community wide holiday open house at the borough hall.
We would also like to see this committee grow strong enough that it can organize programs for youth and seniors. A model to pursue would be programs implemented by the seniors of the community for the youth of the community