City pool season to end early
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| Broyer Tuesday, July 27, 2010: 3:19 pm More from Broyer | This is a bunch of BS.... If this is the case I feel some of our money should be returned to those of us who have purchased season passes. Thats 3 weeks early and some of us would still use the pool even when school is back in session ( enjoying the peace and quiet ).Theres always some reason when it comes to the pool... hell if it cant be open when its supposed to be take it out and stop wasting our money !!!!! |
| Cerberus Tuesday, July 27, 2010: 7:41 pm More from Cerberus | Six days early (3 weekends), not three weeks. Pool closes daily when school starts, just like Mooresville, so you wouldn't have been at either pool any way. I agree with you on the passes. $75 dollars compared to the $100 that it has been in the past for the family pass isn't a deal. I'm sure if you approached the Park Board and explain that you did not get your $75 worth that they would refund your money, but I don't think that is the case. I am disappointed that it isn't going to be open, as is my family, but we finally have a nice pool, of which we are grateful. Prices have risen at surrounding pools, but stayed the same here. Family pass was cheaper this year and saved on gas money by not driving to Mooresville. Tax levy that the park draws has stayed the same and not raised my taxes. So let me make sure I have this correct: Prices stayed the same or went down (Family Pass) and services increased. You are right we should be mad...mad that people think that they are owed something because people are being financially conservative with our tax money. I have been going to the pool since the late 70's and this is the nicest pool that we have had to date....and I am pretty thankful for that. |
| LilaMae Tuesday, July 27, 2010: 8:04 pm More from LilaMae | You are right we should be mad...mad that people think that they are owed something because people are being financially conservative with our tax money. Financially conservative? Please....This pool rebuild has shown the inability of a government entitiy i.e. Park Board to manage a project that will come in under budget as well as giving the tax payers what they are paying for. From inception to "completion" there has been error after error. Above all, a SECOND bond worth over $600,000 had to be taken out, that you cerberus will share in repayment, so that "repairs" could be done. We as taxpayers should not only be mad, but very mad. They have taken our money, squandered it on excuses that could have been avoided and the appreciation to us is an early close date. You go ahead and drink that kool-aid Cerberus, I will continue to be more than a little angry over the whole situation! |
| Cerberus Tuesday, July 27, 2010: 8:23 pm More from Cerberus | LilaMae, I agree with you. But do you cut your losses or do you REALLY do a good job and run it into the ground and REALLY stick it to the tax payer??? In years past it was a total lack of regard for the tax payer and now at least they are remembering that there is a tax payer. My comments still stand in response to Broyer. I guess this is where you and I have not done a good enough job of asking and demanding the kind of accountability from the City Council of the Park Board that there should be. I may drink the Kool-Aid, but my glass if half full. |
| ysops0p Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 7:00 am More from ysops0p | Just keep raising taxes and throwing money at it.....eventually it will be fixed...RIGHT???:) I grew up swimming in the old pool. It had its problems but was never shut down early or opened late. I didn't see anything wrong with the old pool. Sometimes bigger is definitely not better. |
| LilaMae Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 10:35 am More from LilaMae | A second bond for over $600,000 with a project reaching over a million dollars without an end in sight of repairs is sticking it to the taxpayer. You may not have done a good job, but I am frequently engaged concerning accountability. If more individuals would attend the council meetings and really know what is going on in this town, these type of expenditures would have voices attached to them as well as votes to get these people out of their seats when elections come around. The definition for insanity, keep doing what you are doing expecting different results. That's the definition for this project! |
| Reality Check Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 3:27 pm More from Reality Check | Hey Lila - pretty soon you're going to be really happy in Indiana. You will get to keep all your saved property tax money BUT, now follow me here, you won't have access to libraries, schools, trash pick up, police and fire and all the other LIBERAL entitlements you have grown soooooooo used to. I'll be glad when they tear down that damn new fire station and close all of our schools, too. Then I can keep all my $50 I saved on property taxes to pay for the 30% sales tax we're going to have to have just to keep the lights on in the prisons. GO HOOSIERS!!!! |
| Reality Check Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 3:28 pm More from Reality Check | Mitch for supreme commander of budgeting my money for 2012 |
| insider Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 5:48 pm More from insider | While I understand some of the reasoning behind it..or excuses I should say, I have to question why ALL other locals pools are able to manage staying open through Labor Day weekend, but this one cannot. AND, it isn't right to all of us season pass holders regardless of the decrease. I remember hearing a rumor, as it turned out to be, that the pool might actually go a weekend PAST Labor Day due to the late opening. I just think the opening and closing dates should be SET AND IN WRITING PRIOR TO ANY FAMILY BUYING A PASS FROM NOW ON..... |
| Ratcatcher Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 6:08 pm More from Ratcatcher | RC stop being so dramatic. You are comparing apples to oranges and you know it. Libraries and police protection are a far cry from welfare and food stamps. I realize you are trying to make your liberal point but we aren't buying the spin you are attempting to sell us. |
| Reality Check Wednesday, July 28, 2010: 6:24 pm More from Reality Check | RAT - Read another paper once in awhile. Did you not see the Indy Star or Bloomington papers? Libraries are closing. Also, librarians are being laid off. Would you not agree that if we want to promote education, kids should probably have access to books? And people who know about books? Just checking.... Also, Our own Richard Bray is having a committee check spending in prisons - so be on the lookout for cuts there too. And, if we're lucky, early release for lucky families here! You know, if the worst you can call me is liberal, I"m a pretty lucky guy. I think sometimes on here people like to just vent rhetoric, but if someone says something that is not exactly within their scope of belief, they just like to attack. But that's okay. If me not walking lock step in your belief system is grounds for being a "liberal" then whatever. It's the very reason this country is so messed up now. Two parties. Two groups of idiots turning other idiots on each other instead of working together to solve problems. Liberty - do you realize that the person who RAN the evangelical association of churches was a homosexual and meth user? It doesn't mean the ENTIRE group of evangelical churches in America IS this. That's my point to you. Quit stereotyping all groups to fit your black and white viewpoint on 21st Century America. I don't pay $600 in dues to NEA. So, see, you just keep showing how little you know about REALITY....you just like to pretend that you do. I used to like that too...but I was in elementary school. WE should all get our own reality show and makem some money off our "conversations" i.e. pretend discussions. |
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