From: Jennifer Cline
Sent: Thu Oct 01 10:47:04 2015
To: Dan Huff
Subject: RE: # questions to answer
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Jennifer Cline, P.E. | Public Works Director
Licensed in OR, WA
117 N Molalla Ave. | PO Box 248 * |Molalla, OR 97038
O: 503.759.0218 | F: 503.829.3676
From: Dan Huff [mailto:dhuff@cityofmolalla.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:15 PM
To: Heather Penni <hpenni@cityofmolalla.com>; Sadie Cramer <scramer@cityofmolalla.com>; Jennifer Cline <jcline@cityofmolalla.com>
Subject: FW: # questions to answer
From: Russ RIGGS [mailto:riggsruss@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 2:59 PM
To: Dan Huff <dhuff@cityofmolalla.com>
Subject: Fwd: # questions to answer
Hi Dan,
One person living in town and never used the pool, answered the following three questions for our cohort 3 home work. Most people had one line answers. We got answers from 10 different families. The following is from one family.
Just passing it along as FYI.
Have a great rest of your day,
Russ
Sent from my iPad
My answers to questions in a survey by the newest Forld Family Foundation cohort (cohort 3).
What do I love about Molalla?
1. Ivor Davies Park, a spacious natural area offering opportunities to observe wildlife in the city with handicap and bicycle access through it.
2. People I know who are working to make Molalla better.
3. A beautiful pool and community garden space now closed that could be a center for health, well-being, and community spirit.
4. Our library, spacious, convenient hours, friendly, helpful staff, vital community meeting space, with programs for children and adults, and its active, enthusiastic Friends of the Library.
5. The other parks: Clark Park with its grove of giant oaks and huge grassy area for recreation and events, Fox, Long, Skatepark for children and families.
6. The Molalla Adult Community Center, carried on by churches and community donations after the city closed it.
7. Being close to an incredibyl beautiful river canyon.
What I would change:
1. Renovate the inadequate and poorly functioning sewage treatment system by
a) Removing the long accumulated biosolids in a timely manner. The recently settled lawsuit against the city prescribes $50,000 per year to be spent in that effort, but according to the firm who is doing that work, Heard Farms of Roseburg (who also does the city of Canby's biosolids removal) 4 times that amount needs to be spent over each of the next 5 years to adequately remove it.
b) Much more effort also needs to be spent to fix the groundwater leaking into sewer pipes, which causes unneeded extra burden on the sewage system. The lawsuit settlement prescribes I think $75000 per year to be spent on inspecting the sewer pipes, but pipes will need to be replaced.
c) The city needs a better use for the treated effluent than spraying it and sometimes overspraying it on fields not adequate or suited for it, or school or park grounds where it could pose health hazards. Ideas such as poplar groves, which could be harvested for paper pulp and other ideas nearby cities are using to use effluent safely could be examined and solutions could be found which would be safe and environmentally responsible if we worked together on this problem.
2. The pool shouldn't have been closed and should be opened again.
3. No more dwelling units should be built until the sewage treatment problems are fixed and until the community as a whole including school district families determines what our housing, schools, transportation, and parks needs are.
4. The city should help fund the Molalla Adult Community Center. The churches and community donors are doing a great job, but it's a continuous struggle to raise the funds to keep going, and the city has an ethical responsibility to help adequately serve our treasured seniors.
5. More parks need to be built in the northwest section of the city as the Molalla parks plan has laid out.
6. The goals of leadership of the city need to change from--- ignoring infrastructure, sacred burial sites, traffic, fire protection, and schools in its pursuit of thoughtless development toward ---making quality of life the paramount goal in Molalla.
What I'm willing to spend time and resources on and am doing at present:
1. Help keep the Molalla Adult Community Center going as a healthy institution for serving seniors.
2. Help get the pool open again.
3. Help stop thoughtless, damaging development in Molalla, help get the sewage system healthy again, and help keep our river clean and healthy..