CP Blog #6

The San Mateo County Department of Parks attempts to encourage legislative process by advocating to local law makers to increase the funding to the Parks department. Budgets are passed by legislating bodies such as Congress, city council and county board of supervisors. This could manifest itself in many ways such as e-mailing, calling or meeting with certain elected officials in order to make their case as to why their budget should be increased. Other times the Department of Parks will advocate for certain lands to be restored and turned into parks. For example the San Francisco Department of Parks devised a plan to restore a coastal golf course to its natural habitat and make it a park. The Department of Parks must be careful to not get too involved into politics, as it is a partisan government entity like the I.R.S. or Highway Patrol.