Governor to Close State Parks

I am writing to inform our citizens about an online petition that Illinois residents can sign to let our governor know that we do not agree with his most recent decision to close many of our state parks.

http://www.gopetition.com/online/21603.html


As most of you know who live in our area, the state parks are one of the best features we have. Their closing will cause us to not only lose one of the few tourism attractions left to us, but the lack of maintenance on the parks will cause future problems.

Closing the parks is like you walking away from your house for two or more years and then trying to move back in after absolutely no maintenance has been done on it during that time. Think of the time, energy, and money that you would need to put into your home and yard after all that time to be able to bring it back to a move-in condition. Would our future politicians even deem it worthwhile at that point?

And the lack of tourism will only serve to further decrease any revenues upon which our local communities rely. We already have had a significant decrease in revenue from the state and now we face further cuts from these actions.

I have chosen to use this blog to push out this message because these decisions affect our city, our revenues, and it is a poor engineering decision on the part of our governor to close off this asset to our citizens. Please let me know if you agree or disagree with our community taking this stand.