I Must Apologize Profusely to the citizens of Wildomar

All this time I have been railing against the city council for giving up Quimby Fees in exchange for Private Parks and Open Space for Recreation. I was wrong, you can’t give up what you don’t collect.    The City of Wildomar COLLECTS NO QUIMBY FEES.                                         Why you ask.
Apparently when Wildomar accepted 3 parks from the County of Riverside and the LMD 2006-1 funding mechanism for said parks on July 1, 2008 6.4.2 Resolution #08-41 they removed themselves from the County of Riverside Parks and Open Space District and failed to update whatever General Plan they might be using with a Master Plan for Community Recreation and Parks (despite what one councilwoman claims as seen below) thereby designating an entity to accept these funds and determine how they would be spent as required by 
Quimby Act 66477 (a) (4) The legislative body has adopted a general plan or specific plan containing policies and standards for parks and recreation facilities, and the park and recreational facilities are in accordance with definite principles and standards. 
Quimby Act 66477 (a) (6) The city, county, or other local public agency to which the land or fees are conveyed or paid shall develop a schedule specifying how, when, and where it will use the land or fees, or both, to develop park or recreational facilities to serve the residents of the subdivision.  Any fees collected under the ordinance shall be committed within five years after the payment of the fees or the issuance of building permits on one-half of the lots created by the subdivision, whichever occurs later.  If the fees are not committed, they, without any deductions, shall be distributed and paid to the then record owners of the subdivision in the same proportion that the size of their lot bears to the total area of all lots within the subdivision.
City of Wildomar 2012 Impact Fee Study Report Draft April 20, 2012 by Colgan Consulting Corporation. Before imposing these requirements, the City must have adopted a general plan or specific plan containing policies and standards for parks and recreation facilities. 
                               NO PLAN NO FEE
Currently the City of Wildomar is collecting $418.50 per Residential Single Family Unit listed in the budget as Regional Parks DIF of which the city has $26,400 currently in the account, they project an increase to $169,000 for 2013-2014 which equates to about 400 homes. Had we had a Master Parks Plan and were able to collect the Quimby Fee those 400 homes would bring in $930,000 based on the $2,325 fee recommended by the 2012 study. The City of Menifee collects both a Regional Parks fee of $563 and a Quimby fee of $2,590, the City of Murrieta collects a Park Land Facilities fee of $3,828, the City of Temecula a Quimby fee of $4,836 even Lake Elsinore collects a park fee of $1,600 plus a marina facilities fee of $779 because they all have a Parks Plan.
For a city council of which 3 members have expressed support for parks during their campaigns and all 5 supported two different ballot measures along with spending 10's of thousands of dollars of the taxpayers money to convince the voters to fund parks this is reprehensible.
A master parks plan in Elk Grove took 20 months to develop, funny thing about that plan it was developed after their former city manager came to Wildomar. An interesting read on this character http://www.egcitizen.com/articles/2009/03/20/news/doc49c03d2b4ce45015018497.txt titled the $4.8 million man.
Its been 5 years since Wildomar has collected a Quimby Fee and with another 20 months to come up with a plan we are going to have lost millions.
Below are published comments made by members of our esteemed city council regarding parks.
Bridgette Moore, Councilwoman, Parks Sub-Committee Member since the beginning. Smartvote.org Biography of Bridgette Moore February 5, 2008 While volunteering for the last seven years as Parks Committee Chairwoman, Vice-Chair or Secretary, I helped create a master park plan for Wildomar. I love the open spaces still left in Wildomar and will work to preserve them. I like seeing the horses walking down our Wildomar roads. I want more parks and recreation opportunities for the residents. I feel Wildomar is unique and should stay that way.October 26, 2012 SWRNN Bridgette Moore said. “Parks are a vital part of our community.”)

Marsha Swanson, Councilwoman, Parks Sub-Committee Member, The Californian December 23,2007, what Swanson would like to tackle as a council member is the dearth of community gathering spots. Seniors need a place to meet. Children need a place to meet. And there needs to be more park areas, she said. "We don't have girls softball, anymore," she said. "The little league fields are temporary. The land (little league field property) belongs to the cemetery."  To pay for construction of the community centers and the establishment of new park land, Swanson said, developers will be asked to chip in their fair share. "We have to have these things for the kids," she said.

Ben Benoit,  Councilman, Former Wildomar Planning Commissioner
The Californian September 30, 2010 “Given the recent loss of park funding because of a court decision striking down an assessment fee, Benoit said it's important to come up with other funding sources, including the possibility of a corporation paying to put its name on a park.”