This Thursday: Please Say NO to Privatizing Botanic Garden & Nature Center

IF YOU CARE, BE THERE!  

Dear Friends,

At 6: 30 p.m. this Thursday, May 12, 2011, please go to a public meeting in the Fort Worth City Council Chamber at the north end of City Hall; and say just NO to privatizing the Botanic Garden and Nature Center.  Both should continue to be controlled by the City Council, not by some corporate hierarchy where we have no influence.

Please do sign up to speak!

Here is a notice with details from the Fort Worth League of Neighborhoods asking you to speak up at the meeting.  The good news in all that is that privatizing the Public Libraries is off the table for now.  The League’s letter links to a long slide show from government employees. It seems that if you must arrive late, you may still get to speak.

Many of you share my lifelong love of the Botanic Garden and the 3621 acre Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge. There is just too much land and gas wealth there to give up control to a private corporation. It you look at the details, you can tell that it is up to all of us to make certain that our best loved parks do not get privatized.