Author: Miguel de Campos

ACTION ALERT

The Bellevue City Council is currently seeking candidates for its Parks & Community Services board.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a pickleball player on this board? If you are interested or you know a pickleball player who would be interested in this position, please apply online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2021BoardComm. Applications are due by 5 p.m., Monday, April 19, 2021.

ACTION ALERT

The City of Mountlake Terrace is working on a new Master Plan for its parks and open spaces that will will guide recreation and park improvements for the coming 20 years. City staff and the project team will incorporate feedback from their online open house into a draft plan for Recreation & Park Advisory Commission review and comment by mid-2021. The City Council will review and approve the final plan by the end of 2021.

Please visit their online open house and ask them to plan for more pickleball opportunities.

Make sure you ask them to add lines for 10 pickleball courts on the existing tennis courts at the Evergreen Playfield Complex.

Feel free to ask for indoor pickleball as well. Tell them that asking pickleball players to play on a racquetball court (the current indoor situation) is like asking football layers to play on a basketball court.

And of course, ask for whatever else you’d like.

• If you only have 2 minutes, start here: https://mltparks.infocommunity.org/rpos-master-plan/…, and focus on the first two pages.
• If you have 10 minutes, start here: https://mltparks.infocommunity.org/

The open house closes on April 28. But why wait? Do it now!