Essex Dog Park News

Hello,

The Essex Dog Park committee plans to speak at the upcoming Essex Town Meeting Day,  It is this coming Monday, March 4th at 7:30pm at the Essex Community Educational Center (The High School). Members of the Essex Dog Park Committee are planning to speak during the open floor time and will ask to increase the town budget to allow funding for the Essex Dog Park. This ONE action if approved at town meeting will allow the Essex Dog Park to begin construction as soon as we could line up contractors to due to work, most likely this would be Spring 2013. Essex Dog Park will be at the informational period before the meeting (starts at 6:30pm) handing out information and answering questions.

We NEED you at town meeting to show your support for the dog park. If you wish to also speak at town meeting expressing your desire to increase the budget to allow for a dog park please do so. If you are able to attend, please send an email to admin@essexdogpark.org so we can get an idea of the kind of support we can count on at  Essex Town Meeting day. 

Some information: Last monday night we gave a presentation to the Selectboard requesting these funds, due to timing we were too late to get it added to the 2014 budget, this is why we are going to Town Meeting Day. We are planning to request $15,000 to supplement the fundraising we have already done. We have spoken with the town and they have indicated that this amount will affect the average homeowner's taxes by approximately 15 cents for one year.

I would like to thank you for the support the community has given us over the past 5 years, and hope that we can count on your support again so we can begin construction immediately. 

Additionally, Saturday, March 2nd, Essex Dog Park will be serving food to raise money for the dog park at the Annual EJRP / EPR Winter Carnival from 10-3pm at the ADL School. Come down and get some food while attending this free event, and help support the dog park as well!

Thanks Again, and please remember if you can attend Town Meeting Day to send us an email so we can get an idea of the support that will be in attendance.

Matthew Reed
Essex Dog Park

I just wanted to send out a meeting reminder for our meeting on Monday, February 20th, at 7:00pm at the Essex Junction Recreation and Parks building (75 Maple Street, at Maple Street Park). Hope to see you all there!

Matthew Reed
HuskyOwner
 

 
Hello Everyone!
I have exciting news regarding the Essex Dog Park, On January 5th, 2012 the Agency of Natural Resources Land Director signed the license agreement with Essex Junction Recreation and Parks to allow for the use of a dog park on West Street in Essex Junction! I want to thank everyone that has been involved over the past three and a half years to get to this point, it is a very big step in building this dog park.