Final 2010 regular session report
Week 7 - status report/Week 8 - List of hearings
Week 6 - status report/Week 7 - List of hearings
Week 5 - status report/Week 6 - List of hearngs
Week 4 - status report/Week 5 - List of hearings
Week 3 - status report/Week 4 - List of hearings
Week 2 - status report / Week 3 - List of hearings
Week 1 - Status report / Week 2 - List of hearings

WRPA Lobbyist, Doug Levy, provides weekly reports during session.  If there is a bill or issue that you feel WRPA should be monitoring please email  Brit Kramer at  britk@wrpatoday.org 

The Association plays a vital role in promoting and advocating public support for parks and recreation and increasing awareness of the necessity to preserve enhance and utilize leisure resources for a balanced lifestyle. 

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WRPA legislative agenda is based on the following principles:

• Parks are about helping build and sustain Healthy Communities, especially important at a time when health care costs and obesity rates continue to rise.
• Parks are about open spaces and recreation inside of growing communities, especially important with increasing population densities, and state policy goals associated with achieving Climate Change, cleanup and restoration of the Puget Sound, and livable and walkable communities.
• Parks are about connecting communities through trails and greenways, especially important at a time where population growth puts more pressure on our natural resources, and scarce transportation dollars and ever-rising gas prices are inducing more people to walk and bike as an alternative to the automobile.
• Parks are inducers of and incentivizers to economic development, urban plazas, waterfront parks, greenways, and trail connections and the like are central to tourism.