For the first time, the proposed revision to Josephine County’s ordinance on parks that includes enforcement of it the county’s $2 user fee was brought before the public for the first time in a first reading this morning, and opinions from all sides of the issue came out.

From members of the County Parks Advisory Board who gave full support of the enforcement plan, to citizens who said the enforcement component represents increasing taxation and expanding government, the commissioners, already divided through early deliberations over the ordinance, had even more sides to consider from the 10 who spoke today.

A second reading of the ordinance is scheduled for the Commissioners’ September 15 meeting, at Anne Basker Pavilion, at 9 a.m.

The text of the ordinance is available on the County Commissioners’ website. Here's the link: http://www.co.josephine.or.us/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=104