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9 <br /> Related Questions: <br /> 1. Should the Council seek an answer now to this problem of the future, or <br /> must the future take care of itself? <br /> 2. Is the problem one which could be met by an investment or set-aside program <br /> begun now? Is there a useful model of a "public trust" which could be <br /> adapted? <br /> 3. Should the Council and the commission take a pro-active role, working with <br /> other levels of government to find a solution? <br /> ISSUE 9. Is there a need for guidelines for service levels for development and <br /> or operation and maintenance in regional parks? <br /> Metropolitan Council staff, working with staff from implementing agencies, have <br /> developed draft guidelines for service levels (GSL) for both development and <br /> for 0 & M. The GSL delineate both the quantity and quality of service which <br /> facilities in regional parks will provide (development) , and the quantity and <br /> quality of service which they can sustain through the maintenance they receive <br /> (0 & M) . The documents are working drafts, to be tried and adjusted in use. <br /> Ultimately, proponents feel that GSL offer a way to measure and predict the <br /> quality as well as quantity of service returned from investment in regional <br /> recreation open space. Opponents say the measures may be so imprecise at the <br /> • outset as to be meaningless, therefore, misleading to persons attempting to use <br /> them. Some view GSL as undue infringement on implementing agency prerogatives, <br /> feeling that, as owners and operators, the implementing agencies alone should <br /> set service levels in the regional parks for which they are responsible. <br /> A draft suggests the definition of appropriate level of service as follows: <br /> A level of service which meets all health and safety needs, provides an <br /> aesthetically pleasing environment, maintains the quality of both natural <br /> and built resources, and permits a satisfactory recreation experience up to <br /> the facility"s designed capacity and lifetime. <br /> Both Policy 22 and the 1980 text get to "levels of service" in the areas of <br /> development and 0 & M. However, the current plan has no definition nor are any <br /> levels set. <br /> Related Questions: <br /> I . Is it important that the regional system meet minimum acceptable service <br /> levels throughout? Who (and how) decides what they are? Is the suggested <br /> definition (above) appropriate? Adequate? <br /> 2. Is the difficulty of developing usable service level guidelines such that <br /> they are worth pursuing or not? <br /> 3. If usable GSL can be written, should they become part of the policy plan? <br /> • (The Council has other separate guidelines which are not part of policy <br /> plans. ) <br />