Dow Constantine released a four point plan today for saving 39 King County parks located in unincorporated areas. The plan comes one month after the interim King County Executive Kurt Triplett announced that he would propose closing those parks as part of his proposals for cutting $56 million from the county budget. The parks closures are supposed to get him $4.6 million closer to his goal.In a press release from the Constantine campaign today, Constantine says he’ll work to save them, mostly through ideas that Triplett also promised he would pursue in his press conference announcing the closures. Technically this isn’t a campaign issue since the parks discussion is part of this year’s budget process. The new Executive is likely to take over right around the time of signing off on it, meaning whoever wins could veto sections of the budget. Constantine will have a chance to shape the budget when it reaches the county council at the end of this month.Among his four options for saving the parks, Constantine says he’ll push for annexations and look to other non-profit groups to take over parks that don’t go to the cities. Both are options floated by Triplett in his doom-and-gloom press conference last August announcing that he would propose closing them. Burien annexed an area with six of the parks in the August primary which will cut into the number of closures and another 14 parks by Triplett’s count (12 by Constantine’s) are in areas that are up for annexation votes in November. So that should help alleviate the park pressure. Another option is to ask other non-profits or community groups to take over the parks, something Triplett says he’s already aggressively pursuing. “We are in negotiations on several fronts. Nothing finished yet but I expect we will reach deals soon,” Triplett says by e-mail. “Obviously my goal is to have a safe home for all of them before January 1st.”But if those two efforts don’t successfully keep all the parks open, Constantine says he’s got two more ideas, first to just dramatically reduce the maintenance done on the parks for the next year rather than simply fencing off the playground equipment and walking away. And second, he says he’d revisit the parks levy. The money raised by the levy, approved by voters in 2007, can’t be used to help pay for the parks in unincorporated areas. Regardless of what ideas are ultimately successful and who gets credit for saving the parks, fear not, Little Leaguers who use the South County Ballfields. Thanks to a combination of ingenuity and the political pressure of an election year, your baseball diamonds should be ready next summer.