2024/04/17 Council Agenda Packet

From: Cameron Allen <cameronallen112@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:42 PM To: DL‐Council Subject: [EXTERNAL] Excalibur (silver lake) disc golf CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello council, My name is Cameron Allen and I am emailing you in support of passing Fund 354, Program 096 (CIP‐3). I live close to the course and have been playing there for over 10 years now. It's such a great way for my family and I to get outside and get some great exercise while playing a fun game. I have been playing there from where it was not to common to see alot of people playing there to where the sport and course has seen a huge increase in players and traffic. According to udisc in 2023 there were 1.4 million people that used the disc golf app worldwide.That's an increase of 200,000 (17%) people from 2022! That's not including the people that don't use apps but are just out playing the game. The sport is growing at just an incredible rate My family and friends love to get together and use the course and have always heard of the possibility of the expansion for 9 more holes across the street in the unused woods. I've walked back there to check out the possibility of adding more back there and without a doubt it would be a great addition to the course and park. It will help to add more room to players while being able to really utilize unused park space. I know alot of disc golf players that have always wanted the parks department to be able to add and use that space. Lynnwood recently added a course for gold park where there has been so much positivity for the park and community around. It used to stay mostly unused and empty because people were using the park for drug use and that crime in that area was high, the police were routinely called out to investigate the activity in the park. This dissuaded people from using the park for its intented purposes. Skip to today(just a short 3 months since the official opening) the amount of drug use and crime happeing there has dropped significantly while seeing a huge increase in family's and disc golfer's using the course. There was also alot of volunteers to help install the course there. If the funds go though and is passed there will be alot of disc golfers that will for sure volunteer to help install the new course area in whatever way is needed. In closing I hope that this email shows some support to help pass the funds. Thank you , Cameron Allen