Archive for Sunday, March 11, 2007
Omar M. Campbell: Project mess
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I have given City Council and the Library Board my solution several times, but it bears repeating now because of the exorbitant bids and rising costs: leave the existing Senior Center alone. It serves us oldsters quite adequately, has decades of useful life remaining, and is very well located and unobtrusive. What a waste and shame to destroy it.
Contact the library board (as I have done and been totally ignored) and discuss a major scaling-down of the elaborate and grossly oversized project. The structure as planned is visually overwhelming at the entrance to our downtown. Donate the money budgeted to the pointless and wasteful tearing down and relocation of the Senior Center to the library. That project is very likely to be in deep trouble financially because of dithering, delay and spiraling construction costs.
Nix to the proposal to use the Rita Valentine open space land donation on Anglers Drive for a recreation center. Nix to a recreation center, period. I would support the city assisting the Health & Recreation Association. However, I for one am fed up with all the taxes we are saddled with lately - Soda Creek Elementary School, the library, open space purchases, Horizons, paying off loans for the justice center, etc. They're all penalties for unrestrained growth. It is ridiculous to now add another recreation center -and perhaps also affordable housing? I would hope that a taxpayer rebellion is in the offing.
Omar M. Campbell
Steamboat Springs
Comments
elphaba (anonymous) says...
Omar - The irony is that you helped elect this Council!
March 11, 2007 at 6:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
kielbasa (Matthew Stoddard) says...
No, the irony is to expand a library of paper based products when more and more people read electronically as each year goes by. Still, I like books more than electronic reading. I collect comic books, so I still have my love for paper.
March 11, 2007 at 5:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
crc (CHAUNCEY COOKE) says...
Taxes in Steamboat are so low when compared to places with the schools,library,parks etc.that Steamboat has.It has 1/3 the taxes of where I'm from with similar schools and the rest.My relatives pay the same taxes in N.C. as Steamboat and have a library the size of a gas station,schools 25 years behind Steamboat and no parks etc.Steamboat is not a backward out post.There are areas which may have lower taxes but you will have to do without all that you have in Steamboat.Just my 2 cents.
March 11, 2007 at 7:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
kielbasa (Matthew Stoddard) says...
Wow! This mini-Y2K thing with Daylight Savings is amazing! I posted my earlier post after Elphaba, but it's listed above Elphaba's post. I'm posting this at 10:02 pm. Let's see what it says on the site.
March 11, 2007 at 9:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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