All politics are local

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Three entities are competing for your property tax money. Now one wants to raise the ante. There is no overall comprehensive plan to set priorities. The Schools already dipped their hand into the pie and built a large and expensive consolidated elementary building that we will be a long time paying. The City had a major water project, now built, foisted upon them by the Feds which we will be a long time paying. The City now wants a multi-million dollar new public safety and administrative facility. Part of that plan will get the City out of the jail business and drop that necessary function into the lap of the County. So where is the new money to pay for the new buildings going to come from? We all already know who will end up doing the paying.

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