Save San Mateo County Parks
Posted May 13, 2003 / Updated June 26, 2003

• Why this is important
• What's happening   UPDATED!
• Read our Parks Funding Fact Sheet
• Read the May 21, 2003 article in the Half Moon Bay Review
• What you can do   UPDATED!


The future of our San Mateo County Parks is in jeopardy. Because the park system has no dedicated funding source, the severe budget cuts have hit the parks hard. Please act now to help qualify a ballot measure that will secure funding for our parks.

The San Mateo County Parks system contains the widest variety of habitats and the most endangered species of any County parks in the Bay Area. We must act now to ensure that this important public open space is maintained and protected.

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What's happening
Several dedicated citizens have been working with Committee for Green Foothills and Supervisors Jerry Hill and Mike Nevin to solve this problem by putting a tax measure on the ballot to get a dedicated source of funds for County parks. County staff are fully supportive of this effort, and surveys indicate that this San Mateo County voters will continue their long history of voting for parks funding.

On June 25, 2003, we presented to the Board of Supervisors a petition signed by more than 6,000 citizens urging the Board to take action as soon as possible.

Thank you to everyone who helped collect signatures on these petitions -- this made a huge impression on the County and helped underscore the breadth of community support for parks.

The next step is to conduct a poll, likely in fall 2003, to determine voter support for a ballot measure.

To learn more about this issue, read our Parks Funding Fact Sheet.

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What you can do

1. Write to the Supervisors.
Please ask the Supervisors to proceed expeditiously with this issue and give San Mateo County voters the opportunity to vote for dedicated parks funding. We are asking them to put this issue on the ballot.

President Rose Jacobs Gibson and
Supervisors Mark Church, Richard Gordon, Jerry Hill, and Mike Nevin
400 County Center, Redwood City, CA 94063
Fax (650) 599-1027

Your letters are important! As always, mailed and faxed letters are best, but emails are also helpful.

2. Support Committee for Green Foothills.
Become a CGF member or make a donation.

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