At the second City Council meeting I attended, as with the first, the study session provided the interesting topic of park use and reservations in Greenwood Village. Some recommended changes to the current policies not allowing droppers-by to reserve parking lots and allowing residents to rent parks further in advance than non-residents. Presumably, the idea behind these changes would be to allow the taxpayers who fund the parks have the best access to them.
Because I am technically not a resident of Greenwood Village (although I do almost everything in Greenwood Village), I am naturally somewhat resistant to these changes, but I certainly understand the reasoning behind them. If I were a resident of Greenwood Village, I would certainly want greater access to the parks that I would be paying for than someone who wouldn’t be paying for them.
Alec Camhi
My name is Alec Camhi, and I'm a junior at Cherry Creek High School.
I have been deeply involved in politics for as long as I can remember: back in Connecticut, where I grew up, my grandmother was a member of the city board of education for twelve years, the chairwoman of the Democratic City Committee for twenty-eight years, a member of the state board of education for the final three years of her life, and a DNC super delegate for about three decades.
Unsurprisingly, I have thus grown up with politics and government around me for my whole life, and I have a great deal of admiration for those who serve us in the government everyday. I have been raised to understand the value and importance of every level of government - not just the ones that are constantly in the spotlight - because I have always been so deeply involved with local races and news. The workings and activities of municipal and other local governments are often overlooked, but they often have at least as an important impact on the daily lives of those under its jurisdiction.
I am excited to carry the tradition of local involvement with which I grew up in Connecticut out to Colorado!
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