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Don’t throw away city money
I have lived and worked downtown since 1995. Last year, the City Council raced into buying bonds for a new parking structure covering the block at Third, Fourth, E and F streets. The council careened into voting for that project with little public input.
Of course, that project is now being referred to as “The Parking Garage to Nowhere,” our own expensive piece of Alaska right here in our hometown.
I understand that the city is making monthly interest payments on the bonds of $97,000, or $1.164 million per year, with no hope of a project or end in sight to paying nearly $100,000 month for nothing.
This project, like the bogus water rates of Sept. 6, 2011, was led by Mayor Joe Krovoza. Although this letter was written before Tuesday’s Davis City Council meeting, I believe at the time of writing that he is still supporting paying more than $1 million to the discredited Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency project. I hope he changes his mind before the meeting, and votes in agreement with the Water Advisory Committee’s 9-0 vote to cut off further money to the Woodland JPA.
Will he ever learn that it’s not his money he is throwing away? Things have to change.
Michael J. Harrington
Davis
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