HomeMy WebLinkAbout6-15-2020 Public Comment - E. Sieger - Toilets in ParksFrom:Chris Mehl
To:Agenda
Subject:FW: condition of toilets in Parks
Date:Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:08:02 AM
Chris Mehl
Mayor, City of Bozemancmehl@bozeman.net406.581.4992________________________________________From: emilysieger01@gmail.com [emilysieger01@gmail.com]Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:34 AMTo: Chris MehlSubject: Re: condition of toilets in Parks
just as a followup: Tom from the City Parks Division told me 1) they don’t have enough money 2) the previous citymanager decided to close the toilets as a budget savings 3) he doesn’t have any college kids to hire, since they’ve“all” gone home 4) no one wants the job because homeless people are fouling the toilets 5) the police won’t enforceany laws in the parks.
That all seems very untenable, if true.
thanks,Emily
> On Jun 15, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Chris Mehl <CMehl@bozeman.net> wrote:>> Thanks Emily, appreciate your points and asked city manager to look into it.>>> Chris Mehl> Mayor, City of Bozeman> cmehl@bozeman.net> 406.581.4992> ________________________________________> From: webadmin@bozeman.net [webadmin@bozeman.net]> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 2:12 PM> To: Chris Mehl> Subject: condition of toilets in Parks>> Message submitted from the <City Of Bozeman> website.>> Site Visitor Name: Emily Sieger> Site Visitor Email: emilysieger01@gmail.com>> The toilets in the Parks have been closed since the shutdown. Porta potties were installed as a replacement. Thosehave not been, and are still not, serviced sufficiently. They are disgusting and virtually unusable. The one I had touse today, near the Main Street section of the Bozeman Pond Park behind Ace Hardware, was almost overflowingand filthy>> A Parks employee told me there are no plans to open the toilets. I have asked her to have the Supervisor contactme to explain this.
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> You CANT open parks and have hundreds of people using them (including older people and children who tend to
need ready access to toilet facilities) without providing safe sanitary options.>> I hope you as Mayor, or with the entire City Commission, will direct whomever made this decision to change it,and open (and maintain) the toilets>> Thanks> Emily Sieger> 1017 S Tracy> 539-8195> City of Bozeman emails are subject to the Right to Know provisions of Montana’s Constitution (Art. II, Sect. 9)and may be considered a “public record” pursuant to Title 2, Chpt. 6, Montana Code Annotated. As such, this email,its sender and receiver, and the contents may be available for public disclosure and will be retained pursuant to theCity’s record retention policies. Emails that contain confidential information such as information related toindividual privacy may be protected from disclosure under law.