Why is the Medford Parks Foundation working to acquire land when it is a challenge for the city to maintain current properties?
Maintaining public land whether it is open space, or a developed park area is always an issue in growing cities.The Parks Foundation and Parks staff are looking at creative ways to ensure that all of Medford Parks facilities are clean, safe and well-maintained. One example of this is establishing an Endowment Fund that would help defray maintenance costs for all new projects and revisiting past projects to implement maintenance endowments for these as well. These endowments will help span the gap with private dollars when there is a shortfall in city budgets. On the other side of this issue is the quickly disappearing greenspace in Medford.
