Take 2 Minutes to Save Flood Park on Bay Road

Help me save Flood Park! If you live in Menlo Park you probably have driven by the park this year and noticed that it is closed due to pipeline repairs. HOWEVER, Flood Park is slated to REMAIN closed after the repairs are completed in September 2011. This means no playground for local kids and no baseball, volleyball, tennis or bocci ball games in Equally as important, a fenced and locked park (21 acres) without regular police patrols or ranger presence may become a draw for criminal activity!

Please take 2 minutes to help Save Flood Park in Menlo Park! Sign our online petition by clicking this link Save Flood Park and then see more details below.

NO DONATION IS REQUIRED! We will be presenting this petition to San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and Menlo Park City Council Members in May.

San Mateo County staff have made a recommendation to the San Mateo County board of supervisors that Flood Park remain closed indefinitely to save $200,000 in annual maintenance costs (the costs not covered by park use fees). This neighborhood park receives 75,000 visitors a year according to county staff and is a treasure to the neighbors who walked to it daily when it was open! Flood Park is the only park in San Mateo county slated to be closed due to budget cuts! My neighbors and I have spoken with county staff and they believe that the County Supervisors will accept their recommendation to close Flood Park indefinitely and will make it official by voting on the issue in late May or early June. 

I understand that Menlo Park city officials have received information about the finances and operation of Flood Park from the county and that the city is using this information to form a point of view about whether the city should take over ownership of the park form the county (the current owner). A group of neighbors, including myself, have created an online petition to show our support to take over the park (the county is willing to sell it to the City of Menlo Park for $1 if they agree to keep it as a park). Please join us and show your support! Click the link at the top of this blog and sign! NO DONATION REQUIRED.

Here are the other efforts we have taken to help save the Food Park:

1. We have started a letter writing campaign to city elected officials which has already generated 83 letters to the Menlo Park City council. See how to write at quick email at www.savefloodpark.org.
2. We have created a SaveFlood Park Web site which has received visits from 996 absolute unique visitors. Visit us at  www.savefloodpark.org
3. Being in Silicon Valley, we have also created a save flood park Facebook page where 586 visitors have “liked us”. Visit us and hit “like” on Facebook.

Thanks for your efforts to help save Flood Park!