Friday, July 31, 2015

Brace yourselves, Folks

The Capital Improvement Program for 2016-2020 is now online. From an earlier comment:

I see Phase 2 for parking on Cedar Blvd. on page 42 of the CIP. $275,000 for Brafferton (page 41 of the CIP), $700,000 Phase 2 LIGHTING FOR WILDCAT FIELD (page 51 of the CIP) and the best one yet - are you sitting down? See page 44 of the CIP. $4.2 million for McNeilly Field set for 2018.

Will the Sports Advisory Board have to cough up 25% of the cost for Phase 2 for parking and lighting Wildcat Field? It's doubtful. Will the SAB have to come up with a million dollars for McNeilly? Ha!

I am going to have a stroke. I just know it. The good news is that four votes, not three, are still required to incur debt. I guess the real question is where do the commission candidates running in the November election stand on all this?

1 comment:

  1. Hopefully enough "undecided" residents have signed up to access this Blog so that the following video might help them understand the moral conundrum confronting a person who would normally oppose enforced private charity, but grants a local government the same action:

    Charity vs. Taxation – What is the Difference? (from the Institute for Humane Studies - LearnLiberty.org). The video is funny, sad, depressing, and hopeful; all at the same time.

    A few parts of the "Capital Improvement program for 2016 - 2020" suggest the following: If I were to come to your front door with a gun drawn, demand money, and tell you I was going to use it to benefit some local youth sports group, you would call the cops once I had left your property - and rightly so! But the Municipality of Mt. Lebanon can do essentially the same thing, and a great many residents will applaud.

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