Happy Monday!! There is a community council meeting today at 2 pm at the Sheriffs complex. This is the critical - ( Last Opportunity) to show support of the pool rehab and stand up to be heard. The community council presented their alternatives to the plan thats in Saturdays Paper. The commissioners will discuss and have to decide NLT either this meeting or absolutely no later than 12 August. This meeting is the one that will most likely decide the direction they will go! (If there is to be anything on the Novemeber Ballot to support the Pool) If you want a pool in 2015 - please attend, send a letter and state your opinion of support of a district with option that provides No Less than 1,450,000 dollar bond to support phase I of the pool. ( FOP is donating the other 300K for Phase 1) If county approves a district / funding of 1,450,000 for voter consideration - The FOP and community will then have a target of another 830K to raise to do simultaneous construction of Phase I and II in fall of 2015. If the community council gets their recommendation approved - they would ask for the entire 500K raised from FOP to date. This will cause a delay in phase II ( due to requiring FOP to raise that additional 200K and then the 800K ) - We believe this is unrealistic - The cost of 2 year delay is over 20% every two years. Bottom line - We would be starting at 0,0 for phase II and have to raise in excess of 1.2 -1.4 million in the next 2-4 years vs the 830K between now and into spring of 2016. to realize a completely modernized facility. Please try to attend. It may not be the most ideal lunch break you could have but it does serve a purpose in support of our community. We must support a responsible course of action that would allow the public to vote on a 1,450,000 bond and recreation district and an improved recreation aquatics facility. Anything less would be fiscally irresponsible. Have a fantastic week!!!
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:39:15 +0000