PARKING: Hurts families with kids

I am not in agreement on the recent CDA city council decision to increase the parking fee at McEuen Park from FREE for the first 2 hours to $2 for the same time frame. Families with young children are already challenged to make ends meet.

This fee amounts to several hundreds of dollars a year for families who use the park a few times a week. That is a lot of money when 31 percent of our children in CDA live in poverty.

This new parking fee at McEuen Park is not good for children and young families. I encourage the City Council to rescind this new parking fee or provide a FREE parking pass to families with children under age 12.

MARYJO KRINGAS

Coeur d’Alene