In the article about Cooper, Keller and Rempp, it's mentioned they want the City of Salina to focus on the basics, it fails to mention our parks, recreation, history, arts and culture that is also apart of our city's infrastructure. What is their approach to these areas?

My approach to parks, recreation, history, arts and culture is to maintain what we have and insure its continued support. But the question associating parks and rec with infrastructure isn't correct.

Infrastructure includes: The city transportation, utilities, public services, city communications and waste management. Infrastructure is the main part of any level of government and is governments primary function for its city to be safe and healthy.

I believe that parks and arts and recreation opportunities are very important to community growth, but we have to make sure we are maintaining the things we have and taking care of them before building new things.

Regarding Parks and Rec, I think we can slow down expanding these options and focus more on maintaining what we have. Sometimes I wonder how we lived in our City in the decades gone by.