The 2012-2016 Capital Improvement Plan is available online. View under Government/Official Documents.Here is the direct link. 2012-2016 Capital Improvement Program
A couple of significant projects (listed in gross costs) for 2012 include:
- Fields to be built at McNeilly Park $3,520,700
- Renovations at the swimming pool $4,590,600
- Street reconstruction $2,100,000
- Sanitary sewer work required by the consent decree $3,424,630
4 comments:
Let's take the money for McNeilly fields and use it for storm sewer repairs instead.
A previous commission voted down a bond for the McNeilly fields.
Why do these things keep resurfacing time and time again, even after they have been rejected in the past?
Do the taxpayers eventually roll over and say "sock it to me" after so many years of big spending complaints?
How can we afford it now if we couldn't afford it before?
Where is the outrage over the rain tax?
David Huston
David, good point.
In a recession and at a time when the municipality had to float a bond for street repairs is it really necessary - RIGHT NOW - to build fields at McNeilly Park?
Common sense would indicate- fix the things that absolutely need to be fixed. Worry about the amenities later!
Has any kid in Mt. Lebanon suffered a horrendous childhood, lacked in things to do and left out of some outdoor activity because they couldn't play some game at McNeilly Park?
I'm wondering how many residents actually knew there is a McNeilly Park and could find their way to it without a GPS!
It can certainly wait.
Dick Saunders
David and Dick,
I don't see the need to go into debt over McNeilly Park, myself. Our roads are a mess. There is a huge sink hole on Hoodridge. People want to spend money on deer culling, so let's get rid of another deer habitat. We cleared out the area on Castle Shannon Blvd. Let's just keep developing tracts of land and then complain about the deer.
Yes, the people in Baldwin and Brookline could use another field.
I am outraged that the School District will get a special break for the storm water fees just by teaching kids, who will most likely move out of Mt. Lebanon. We raised eight kids (those who know me understand the math)and NONE of them wanted to live in Mt. Lebanon in their adult life. The whole point about fees vs. taxes is because of the School District. Why will there be a budgeted amount for rainbarrel credits and in the same breath, knock off 20% of the SD storm water fee? I will be really disappointed with the Commission if this goes through. I thought they were above this kind of governing.
Elaine, the dilettantes on the Commission need a bond backed by a FEE for storm water so they can have a bond issue backed by TAXES for recreation. You see the Commission era have forgotten the promises made by the cheap deadbeat athletic supporters about contributions they made and walked away from when the suckers on another commission believed the same empty promises the cheap deadbeat athletic supporters made to the earlier commission that they made to the school district to get an athletic field house with a vomitory for the football team to run onto the football field. Did anyone think about coaching before they jumped at the new athletic wing? Our football coach was hired in 1995 or 96 and has never won a WPIAL title. The coach could;t even get the kids to shower and wash their uniforms to prevent MRSA until AFTER MRSA became a crisis. Is there substance abuse in the coaching staff or is the substance abuse just limited to the kids?
John Ewing
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