Corinth Disc Golf Course-Local Politicians follow National Strategy: Much easier to Divide than it is to find solutions

Corinth City officials turns a bad decision into an embarrassing debacle. It began when a Corinth city official unilaterally authorized volunteers to create a 9-hole Disc Golf Course at the Corinth Community Park in an area referred to as PacMan Hill. Let me break it down for you:

Paul Leslie, City Parks Director, approved a volunteer's request to build a disc golf course without any planning, or collaboration from other departments, boards or city council.

The volunteer, without much city supervision, uses chainsaw to create disc golf course and wrecks havoc on nature area and existing trails.

When the damage is discovered, the citizens get angry.

• Citizens are angry live trees were cut down, nature area badly damaged.
• Nearby homeowners are angry that erosion and flooding issues were worsened by tree and brush removal.
• Corinth's Trails and Park Board members are angry that they were not consulted and the existing use of the trail system is disrupted.

After the citizens spoke out at City Park Board meeting, the Parks Board recommends to the city council the Disc Golf Course at Pacman Hill be closed. All agreed that a Disc Golf Course could be of value to the City Parks, EXCEPT PacMan hill is not the suitable location.

Disc Golf course volunteers still want a disc golf course.

Now, let's stop right here. You may be thinking this is a no-brainer, right? Simply ask the Parks Board to determine if there is another location suitable for this activity and develop a plan. This issue can be easily resolved by our City Leadership and put to rest, right? wrong!

Not in the City of Corinth where EVERYTHING is political and May elections are right around the corner! The City Council voted to send it back to the Parks Board to study further. Four months is apparently not long enough to gather all the facts. Sure, let's stretch it out further. In the meantime, newspaper articles

and humorous

editorials shine a light on this embarrassing lack of leadership and the anger between the citizens grow as they divide into camps and prepare for a fight.

This is the exact same Republican strategy seen at the national and state level. And now we see it here at our local level.

It is much easier to DIVIDE people in camps and fight than it is to solve problems. We MUST get out of this cycle.

Get involved. Demand our leaders stop with the self serving politics and lead!

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Volunteers inflict permanent damage to Corinth Park's Nature Area

A beautiful trail for hikers and cyclist gracefully winds through the nature area known as Pacman Hill at Corinth Community Park. It was built with Federal Grant funds specifically awarded to the city for trail development over the last few years.
Disc Golf volunteers cut hundreds of trees and removed underbrush inside this wooded area while building their 9-hole course. The trail committee was not notified of the Disc Golf course plans. When members discovered the destruction, the Disc Golf course was quickly shut down until meetings could be held to determine the best course of action.

Last night's Park Board meeting was heavily attended by many citizens. Paul Leslie, Director of Community Services for the City of Corinth, admitted his department failed to seek Parks Board approval before they authorized the Disc Golf course in the 'Pacman Hill' nature area.

Angry about the destruction, many Corinth citizens expressed their opposition to the Disc Golf Course in this location. No citizen spoke in favor of the Disc Golf course. The Park Board recommended the Disc Golf Course permanently removed from packman hill.

This issue will be discussed at the February 4th Council Meeting at City Hall

Read the Denton Record Chronicle report, Click HERE

DCDP Chili Supper Saturday January 23

Chili and Politics! It will be a Gas! Join the Fun Saturday!
Annual Chili Supper and Candidate Forum
Saturday, January 23 2010, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
This annual fundraiser for the Denton County Democratic Party will be the perfect kick off to the 2010 election for our Democratic candidates and will be held at the Center for the Visual Arts near Downtown Denton, on Saturday, January 23, starting at 6 p.m.

Your $20 ticket entitles you to sample Texas chili generously provided by the Jimmy Meredith family, along with beans, cornbread and brownies lovingly prepared by volunteers. Tea and water are provided, but you also can purchase adult beverages to enjoy with your meal.

If you’d like to bring food, or if you can help with the set up or the clean up, please let us know.
RSVP by return e-mail, by phone, or by mail to:
Chili Supper - DCDP
815 Ector St.
Denton, TX 76201-2426
Marsha Keffer 940/387-9068
DCDP Headquarters 940/566-1165

Location : Center for the Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory St. 76201
Contact : Marsha Keffer 940-387-9068, Denton County Democratic Headquarters 940-566-1165