Letter: Vote Leigh Harrod for Three Rivers Park District

To the Editor:

Many people may not take the time to look into or compare the two candidates for Park Commissioner for Three Rivers Park District, but they do so at the peril of their parks. 

Just compare the two, and take a good look at the website of Leigh Harrod, www.harrod4parks.com

She is amazing, having spent a lifetime working with natural resources. She did not just become a recent convert to the environmental cause so she could run for this office. Her opponent is a former government employee seeking big name endorsements and donations from others to finance his political campaign. Leigh Harrod will not do so, and she remains independent in her grass roots effort. 

First, as a knowledgeable and experienced natural resource manager, Leigh Harrod is clearly the most qualified to be elected to the board of Three Rivers Park District 4.    

Second, she has a proven ability to manage financial decisions involving public funds, as well as the monetary needs necessary to maintain our parks without going overboard.  Over the past 4 years, she was instrumental in developing a very conservative-leaning Financial Reporting and Long Term Planning ordinance for the City of Excelsior.  She is both a resource manager that makes a lot of good economic sense.

Third, Leigh Harrod has a great passion and love of the parks. I know Leigh Harrod would be the most knowledgeable and the most devoted pubic servant.  

Janice Leafer, Excelsior