Just a reminder, there is a Parks and Green Spaces Oversight Committee meeting tonight, Monday, November 9 and the city is asking community members to contribute their feedback and help develop the Opportunity Fund Project Criteria (.pdf), a set of standards for applying and being awarded grants from the $15 million the Parks and Green Spaces Levy Opportunity Fund allotted to community-initiated projects last year.

The funds can be used for anything from buying new park land, to developing a new trail, garden or park or improving upon already existing public spaces. The oversight committee hopes to develop the final criteria by January so that they will be able to accept applications in the spring and begin the implementation of these projects in January 2011. Tonight’s meeting on the draft proposal will begin at 7 p.m. at the Parks Administration Building (located at 100 Dexter Avenue N). More information here.