Madison Park Business Association and Community Council | Seattle WA 98112

The Madison Park Community Council organized the Emergency Snow Brigade Program last year to assist people in need should there be a tough winter snow season.  The program was designed to serve the neighborhoods represented by the Council: Madison Park, Washington Park, Denny Blaine and Broadmoor. This program is being offered again this year.  Volunteers are prepared to drive neighbors to critical medical appointments, deliver groceries if someone cannot get to a store, pick up critical prescriptions from a pharmacy, get help to shovel walks and stairs, find emergency shelter if someone does not have heat and help walk a dog or care for pets if someone cannot do so.

People with emergency needs should contact: 
Liz Brandzel:  (206) 249-9230

There are many volunteers willing to help, by car or on foot. 
If you wish to become a volunteer, call Liz 

The Board of Parks Commissioners voted at their Dec. 8, 2011 meeting to recommend that “the entire fence be removed, combined with an implementation and vegetation management plan, with the Superintendent conferring with the community.” Acting Superintendent Christopher Williams has indicated his intent to follow a process of community involvement comparable to that used by the Parks Department in other similar situations, and has committed to completing that process before any action to remove the existing fence is taken. Several community members (Madison Park Community Council President Gail Irving, Lake House Condominium residents Sam Smith and John Pettit, and resident of the condominium at the northwest corner of 43rd and E. Lynn Shan Mullin) met with the Acting Superintendent and several of his staff on January 9 to discuss the Parks Department’s plans for how the community process would be organized:
A working group will be formed consisting of the following:
1. four community representatives who opposed the original proposal to simply remove the existing fence (the four individuals noted above),
2. four individuals from the Madison Park community who expressed support for the fence’s removal, and
3. two Parks Department staff members (not David Graves) who will facilitate the group’s efforts
The group will meet several times over the next couple of months, and those meetings will be open to the public.
We are hopeful a reasonable resolution can be found that responds to the concerns that have been raised by the community and results in actual improvements to the park.   Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.