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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015 Dog park: It probably won’t happen without mayor’s support Continued from Page 1A Linhart says it’s an at- tainable goal. Many Wash- ington communities have successfully established parks, often with help from community coalitions and grants. In 2011 and 2012, Lin- hart did research and visited a dog park in Warrenton to learn more about how to set one up. To make it happen, city officials would need to purchase, lease or trade for a suitable property, Linhart said. They would also have to pay for fencing and a source of fresh water. City Administrator Da- vid Glasson says finding a location is the main obsta- cle. In 2012, the city identi- fied a school district-owned lot east of Culbertson Park as an ideal site. But district leaders were wary — in the event that the district need- ed to reclaim the land, it would surely prove compli- cated and unpopular to de- commission a dog park. In summer 2014, a local man offered to sell the city his property near the dog shelter. But council mem- bers said the asking price was too high and it wasn’t in the budget. “Where is the next spot? That is the issue. We hav- en’t really come up with a next spot,” Glasson said April 24. A reluctant council Frustrated with the lack of progress, Perez in Sep- tember 2014 made a motion to add a line-item for the dog park in the 2015 bud- get. That might have gotten the project back on track by setting aside dedicated funds, but his effort fell flat. “The mayor did not ask for a second, so I asked the council and no one second- ed, not even Steven, who is DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group DAMIAN MULINIX — EO Media Group Sam, a standard poodle, drew lots of attention at the 2014 Doggie Olympics on the Long Beach (Wash.) Pen- insula. Piper, an oversized papillon —which means butterfly in French — competed in the baseball toss and retrieve event at the 2014 Doggie Olympics. ‘The mayor’s the CEO. He’s the bottom line on who does what with what.’ — Steven Linhart councilman on the shelter board,” Perez said in an April 23 email. “So the issue is dead in the water if it has no council support.” When asked why he didn’t second the motion, Linhart said he feels that Perez has a history of stir- ring up conflict, so he was reluctant to align himself with Perez, even for a cause he supported. “It’s because of the blood between Mark Perez and myself,” Linhart said. “That was small of me … I shouldn’t have done that.” Councilman Jerry Phil- lips, who plans to run for mayor later this year, said he didn’t second the mo- tion because there wasn’t adequate time to discuss it during the council meeting, which lasted about seven minutes, according to city records. “It would have been bet- ter to bring it up in a work- shop,” Phillips said. “We need to have the staff do research … that’s not some- thing you can do in the mid- dle of a council meeting.” N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 An ambivalent mayor Linhart and Perez do agree on one other thing — the park probably won’t happen without support from the mayor. “The mayor’s the CEO. He’s the bottom line on who does what with what,” Lin- hart said. He says when he has tried to broach the top- ic, Mayor Bob Andrew has never specifically said “no.” “He just didn’t say any- thing about it,” Linhart said. When asked whether he favored building a dog park, Andrew declined to answer PLEASE ADOPT A PET! Harrington Sen ior N ew fie/L a b blen d — this d ea r com pa n ion w ill d a ily tell a ha ppy story to you r hea rt. W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Phillips says he supports the dog park, “if it can be built in the right location at the right cost.” But he says the city needs to pay for other projects, including street and water system mainte- nance before setting aside money for the park. the question directly, say- ing that responsibility for the dog park lies with the council. While the council does have to vote to approve new projects and policies, the mayor is expected to provide leadership by sug- gesting goals and policies for the city, proposing the annual budget and making sure city staff implement policies, according to “The Mayor’s Handbook,” a pub- lication of the Association of Washington Cities. “I don’t think the City Council has made up their mind what they want to do. It’s not been on the front burner,” Andrew said April 24. “At this particular time I haven’t seen the interest level of pushing forward.” Andrew said, “There are plenty of places in Long Beach where people can take their dogs with- out having a dog park.” For example, he said, “the beach.” However, the new city policy requires leashes anywhere but private prop- erty. At an April 20 city workshop, council mem- bers and staff noted that with a potentially volatile mix of vehicle traffic, pe- destrians of varying ages and abilities, no fences and few waste receptacles, the beach is not an ideal place for dogs to play off-leash. When asked where else citizens might take their dogs, Andrew said, “A fenced area,” but couldn’t name any such areas that are available to the public. 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