 Do you think a 116 thousand dollar upgrade for the front entrance to Vernon city hall is appropriate ? | ||
|---|---|---|
| no | ||
| 19- | 100% | |
| yes | ||
| 0 | 0% | |
| Number of Voters | : 19 |
| First Vote | : Monday, 22 March 2010 05:44 |
| Last Vote | : Monday, 22 March 2010 15:38 |
Written by Peter McIntyre Monday, 22 March 2010 09:42
Critics may say it's a project that could be put-off until better times.
Critics may say it's a project that could be put-off until better times.
Vernon council will consider spending $116,000 designated for grant matching for the Civic Plaza, to improve the front entrance to City Hall. The project will upgrade the front parking area, fountain and entrance. A staff report from Operations Manager Shirley Koenig says the "existing pavers and stairs" are in a "deteriorated condition."
5 comments:
Hahaha, nothing like rolling it out in dribbles, a li'l bit here, a li'l bit there, so no one can see exactly how much City Hall renos actually cost the taxpayers (last year, this year and into the future). Try visiting the City's grant page, where you'll notice a $3.6 million project for City Hall Plaza Revitalization Phase II.
When will the real numbers be published? Doesn't anyone care to add it all up?
When the new library is built, how much will it cost to revamp the old library into new City Hall digs?
What kind of empire are they/we building? The Taj-Ma-CityHall?
Funny this issue comes up today.
This afternoon I noticed how grubby the bus shelters are. Who would want to wait for a city bus in such places. I would bathe my dog if they ventured into them.
Can you even imagine how disgusting the proposed public washrooms will be if bus shelters are in such a state?
It's the small niceties that make life in a city pleasant.
Give a tax break to businesses offering the public the use of their washrooms. I'm sure that would be cleaner and most important: safer.
post-script
further to the grimy bus patron acommodations:
I noticed fresh scars on the hills that define our landscape: all requiring infrastructure and precious water. All this growth and such a dearth of public water access for the average tax-payer ie swimmer or low horsepower water craft.
Recently someone wrote a letter to the editor recently decrying the lack of boat launches for visitors.
Studies have shown that campground facilities for tourists requiring pads for tents is a real need.
The average family does not explore this province in a six figure rig w compact car, trail-bike, quad, sea-doo and speed boat attached.
For every new home there should be a beach blanket calculation: a family of four would require a 6x8space of beach for their "blanket".
No new building permits should be issued if this small patch of beach cannot be offered.
As for more boat launches: most people wouldn't drink their own bathwater as a conservation measure
yet we allow deisel or gas belching craft on the source of our drinking water.
The most repugnant part of powercraft on our lakes is the knowledge that some boaters will not have w.c. facilities on board and will do what comes naturally in what we may be drinking.
To East Hill Resident
it called the "Ediface Complex"
To Anonymous #1 or #2 (c'mon, no nicknames for you??): Boat launch/beach/park/water capacity/availability should be a consideration when approving more development, as should the economic constraints felt by the average family.
Perhaps you can explain to me why Council is so hell-bent on using taxpayer dollars to build 'attainable housing', 6km from city centre on a green hillside, for families earning $80,000+ per year, without any commensurate improvements to local infrastructure, such as roads, parks, boat launches, etc? Ah, I digress...
But back to my actual point, Anonymous: do you really think that swimmers, canoeists, kayakers, not to mention those pesky non-motorized waterfowl that insist on landing on our drinking water lakes, also stop themselves from discharging "waste" to the lake?
Sorry, I cannot support your claims that degraded water quality results from boating alone.
Beyond that, we live in an area where a very high value is placed on recreation, especially on the lake.
We have treatment plants to ensure our drinking water is safe, and therefore we must balance source water protection and competing interests on the lake, with that old adage that the solution to pollution is dilution.
I have no doubt that pollution, especially from all the pharmaceuticals we flush down the toilet, will catch up with us, given enough time.
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