The balance between built and green happens when people envision, plan and act. For decades, Olympians poured work into planning for our city’s parks. Today, with a click of a button, one can read the current city parks plan with lofty goals and detailed needs, yet there is insufficient funding to make it happen. That will change with the passage of Proposition 1.

​The MPD ordinance and inter-local agreement is the result of careful planning and excruciating attention to detail. It answers all the questions about accountability, the restoration of the 2004 parks and sidewalks tax, and assurances that our tax dollars will be spent for parks alone.

​The City of Olympia fact sheet is available here.

Read our responses to the statement against Prop-1:
Opposition Unmasked
​Accuracy

Accountability

In an unprecedented action, the citizens who worked to pass the 2004 measure, a broad coalition of park advocates and the City’s Finance Committee met multiple times this summer to create legal and practical language to propose to City Council for the creation of a Metropolitan Park District that has accountability as a Foundational Principle.

Opposition Unmasked

The opposition to Prop-1 is organized by the notorious Freedom Foundation.

However, we recognize that voters may have serious concerns, so we have put together a point-by-point rebuttal sheet that addresses the points raised in the con-statement of the ballot.
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Accuracy​

There have been a number of mis-characterizations of the City budget, the City process and the scope of Olympia's proposed Metropolitan Park District.

​In this fact sheet, we address many misleading statements and we back our claims up with hard facts.
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