Quickies: Peder Rice's blog, EGF Civic Center funding
* Yet another new city issues blog, this one from former Grand Forks City Council candidate Peder Rice. His first post on "The Progressive Palette" is about plans for the Merrifield Road bypass. What's it about? he asks. It's gonna be a road for trucks so they don't have to go through town. This will be pretty handy during the beet harvest season.
Funny note: Peder says he likes playing virtual mayor with SimCity. I like SimCity, too, but I wish I didn't have to micromanage so much.
* The East Grand Forks City Council will be discussing whether it accepts the Water and Light Commission's deal to fund Civic Center repairs. Council members wanted $750,000 from the commission but the commission would only give them $150,000. The rest will have to be repaid, though without interest. The city will pay another $25,000 using money from reserves.
Funny note: Peder says he likes playing virtual mayor with SimCity. I like SimCity, too, but I wish I didn't have to micromanage so much.
* The East Grand Forks City Council will be discussing whether it accepts the Water and Light Commission's deal to fund Civic Center repairs. Council members wanted $750,000 from the commission but the commission would only give them $150,000. The rest will have to be repaid, though without interest. The city will pay another $25,000 using money from reserves.
posted by Tu-Uyen at 8:25 PM
3 Comments:
Gee, why can't they just take the $200,000 that they are going to spend on a fountain in the middle of a river and use that money for practical usage, say, the Civic Center? Makes you wonder about the people in charge and where their priorities are.
They'd say their interest is in economic growth. And if they can get Grand Forks to fork up $300k, it's a pretty good deal!
A comment expanding on jeni.ann's comment - Why can't the Civic Center be made into a memorial to all who helped in flood recovery?
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