Spokane County won the bid on the SRP. due to a court ordered auction. details posted in these links. http://www.jpking.com/index.asp?aid=2587&p=2587
http://www.khq.com/

 

Taken from a motorcycle board that I am a member of:

All,

I want to take some time to bring up the recent bid by Spokane County on SRP.

As you know, last week, the County was the highest bidder for SRP and a few parcels around it.

As of now, Mark Richard is under scrutinizing fire by Spokane Commissioner Bonnie Mager (Do Not Send Her Negative Emails!), and her support by local media outlets of Spokane that feel the decision was misuse of public funds.

What we can do:

For starters, please send a thank you, and a show of support to Mark Richard. He can be contacted by email at mark@richardforcommissioner.com or call him on his Cell Phone at 509.251.3643, as well as email the local media outlets with “positive” well written emails. Please include your first and last name and why SRP is important to you, and why you think it (No, Why you KNOW IT) supports the local economy.

Here is the list:

News4@kxly.com
q6news@khq.com
news@krem.com
editor@spokesman.com

Secondly, if you are a resident of Spokane County, the two board members who are in support of SRP are Mark Richard, and Todd Meilke. Take some time to find out how you can assist with their upcoming campaigns, as well as try and take the time to attend any of the upcoming public meetings concerning SRP to show support, and be our eyes, ears and voice for those of us who can not attend.

Third, take a moment to join the “Friends of Spokane Raceway Park” at FOSRP@AOL.COM

Fourth, I feel we need to work as a collective towards this, to insure the future success of SRP, and support. I believe we need to, as a group of Motor Sports Enthusiasts, get to know the other clubs of our area that also utilize the track. I myself, made contact with Scott Adare of Adare Motorsports today. I would like to start working with him, to come up with a better way of getting word out across all organizations, as well as helping with the political side of this. As a resident in Western Washington now (I’m from the East Side), I feel I should do whatever I can on this end to help. Even if it is just posting this post over and over to every forum I belong to just to get it out. If I can get word out to just 1 more person who did not know of how severe the current situation is, than I did my job.

We will also need to gather support for Volunteer work in the future for SRP. I know of a ton of people who are willing to participate in a clean-up effort. This is great positive response from the communities, and is a positive view to the residents.

Please take a moment to speak with all you know that have used SRP and its resources in the past, and hope to continue to use them in the future.

Also, if anyone is aware of anyone who is apart of the Bicycle organizations that utilize the track, please have them get this out there.

Right now we are working as separate parts of a body, and although we are definitely able to be heard, I feel as a collective, we could be heard much louder.

Thank you for your time,

Michael “Mic” McLane

 

I haven't heard much updates about the track but it sounds like it may not be open for this year. perhaps to be put up for auction again or sold to the next higher bidder? does anyone know what is about to happen?

http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?s=8559470

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane_Raceway_Park

 

Last I heard the judge reversed his own ruling against the County buying SRP and they were going ahead with it. I think they where trying to organize a clean up day soon.

 

well theres's more to just a lil clean up the county claims after soil sampling around the parcel that the may dig up the whole track. due to oil contamination. but they are asking for volunteers to help out with the track clean up. and they are looking for some people to volunteer for a track coordinator, security, staging, tech, and etc. if we want to race this year and maintain race events but nobody seems to want too. and the county don't have the resources to put a shovel in the ground? and since the track was closed for a year they have lost the grandfather clause now their is a casino that is expanding there facilities for a high end hotel suites and high end condo's surround the track so no noise after 10 pm. (don't forget the city is partitioning the area for taxes) I think the county is budgeting for a track organizer if they could get additional funding and support from our community.

 

Uh oh, I see the same thing happening here that happened with PIR. Noise restrictions. For those of you that don't know Portland International Raceway is owned by the city of Portland, meaning PIR can be shut down very easily...and people are trying to. PIR used to hold National events back in 70's and 80's but with people moving into the expanding neighborhood nearby they started complaining about the noise. eventually PIR couldn't get the variance to hold such National Events. Now we don't even have Champ Car or ALMS anymore. PIR now has a dB limit of 103dB at 50ft. top fuel comes in at about 130dB, Champ Cars are about 115dB. I'm sure this is going to become an issue very soon for SPR as well.