We Get Mail: The Missing Planters
FFFF received an email yesterday from one of our readers. I reproduce the text below:
FFFF, I was at the UP Park “community event” on the 13th. I read your post about the event and I have to say it brought some things into focus. Why were we doing the last thing first? It seemed cooked up.
Anyway, what I want to find out about is the status of the wooden raised garden bins built that day. They were supposed to be used for a community garden and now they have completely disappeared from the park.
Why?
Did the City take them away? Were they stolen? Where are they?
Hey, the Friend is right. Here’s the area where the alleged “community garden” is supposed to be. I took the picture yesterday afternoon.
And here’s the image from the Big Party.
The answers to the questions are unknown. I imagine the bins were removed by the City. But why? To protect them from graffiti? From theft? Geez, that would be a bad omen for the success of the park.
Were they in the way of the contractor now that the “Volunteer Futility” is over? That speaks volumes to the insincere quality of the community event.
You have to wonder about the sincerity of the City toward the idea of a community garden, especially from the Parks department people who would have to deal with the managerial headache with no extra budget, no extra manpower, and zero upside for them.
Anyway, if I can find out where the bins are, I’ll let our reader know.
Just make-work organized for photo-ops. I would not be surprised if we never see those “bins” again.
You’re right. Parks people do not want something they can’t get paid for.
If it made sense it wouldn’t be Fullerton.
There should be some sort of law about fooling the ignorant into being props in your photo-ops.
A community garden is a 100% guaranteed failure. Who runs it? Who gets a planter? What’s the fee. Who collects it? How do you keep vegetable thieves out?
Where does the water come from? Who has a key to the water outlet? Who pays for the water?
Who monitors upkeep and maintenance?
Who the Hell is repsponsible for anything?
Pave paradise and put up a parking lot.