Judy Peavey-Derr, August 4, 1998

In an interview with Troy Reeves on August 4, 1998, Judy Peavey-Derr discusses her work advancing the Boise Greenbelt project as an Ada County Commissioner from 1987-1991. She describes how her appointment to coordinate Ada County’s activities in the Idaho Centennial Celebration led her to create a 501(c)(3)—The Boise River Trail Foundation—to help fund connecting the pathway from Lucky Peak Dam to Eagle. The project would be Ada County’s contribution to celebrating the Idaho Centennial, but she realized that obtaining funding would have to be done by a third-party to avoid pushback from other commissioners. She recounts their strategy to pave and connect the section from Warm Springs to Eckert Road, the Fairgrounds to Riverside Village, and creating a path under Glenwood Road Bridge. She discusses the recent creation of another organization, F.A.C.T.S., to continue where The Boise River Trail Foundation had left off in 1991 and to expand the goal to create a bike path all the way through Canyon County. She also describes her opinion of the Greenbelt in its present state and her hopes for how it will develop in the future.