Broken
Promise.
The WECRD was formed with the promise of a
pool. There will be no pool. It has
taken 15 years for them to save around 4 million dollars. They say it costs 5 million
to build a pool. The current plan is to build a gym with the all the money they
have saved, plus money they can’t seem to raise, and to support it with the tax
money they collect yearly. There will be no, “phase 2” or “in the future”
because everything goes to build and maintain the building they want to build.
The next promise they will break is that they are going to break ground this
year.
“Closer
than ever”.
This is their battle cry and has been for the
past 5 or 6 years. The problem with that is they can never quite get to the
goal they have set. The WECRD spends
over $100,000 dollars a year just to open the doors from 10-2 Tuesday through
Thursday. They run no programs. They contribute nothing to any other
entities programs. Why is it that in over 15 years there has been none of these programs we hear so much about? They rent a building that is huge. They could've had programs and daycare and computers and after school activities. If for nothing else just to see how they went. Pilot programs if you will.
They opened their capitol campaign to raise money in November of 2014. The purpose of this campaign is, community buy in. To make sure the community really wants it, and of course the extra $850,000 they are trying to raise. To date they have pledges for $210,000 and have actually collected $40,000. Even if you spot them the, “checks in the mail”, $210,000 “raised” over the last 8 months, and that was the low hanging fruit, it would take them another 24 months to raise the $640,000 they are short of.
They opened their capitol campaign to raise money in November of 2014. The purpose of this campaign is, community buy in. To make sure the community really wants it, and of course the extra $850,000 they are trying to raise. To date they have pledges for $210,000 and have actually collected $40,000. Even if you spot them the, “checks in the mail”, $210,000 “raised” over the last 8 months, and that was the low hanging fruit, it would take them another 24 months to raise the $640,000 they are short of.
Inaccuracy.
See Sustainability or “Blue” Paper. The WECRD is using a 5 year old study that
based its numbers on 40% growth. These are very different times economically
and it doesn’t seem prudent to use outdated, inaccurate numbers, to justify any
project let alone one that uses our tax dollars.
The
Project itself.
20
acres purchased for $500,000 10 years ago and there isn’t a stitch of
grass, a tree, a walking path, a community garden, or any ball fields. A gym
with some exercise equipment and daycare is what they want to build. All of
which we currently have. Once again based on a 5 year old survey, they have
chosen to build the least popular option from that outdated and inaccurate survey.
Not to mention that our two local gyms and daycares will lose customers to this facility. Why
would we want to compete with any local business and lose any jobs to a tax
payer funded and sustained building? It would be far wiser to not lose jobs
by duplicating these services but to bring in things that we don’t have here
already.
The
Money.
By dissolving the District your taxes
will go down as you will no longer be taxed for no reason and no recreation. The
money, by law, goes to the county and the commissioners have to use it on
recreation. The commissioners have stated that they would have forums so that
the citizens can as a group or individually give their input on where the money
should go.
Use.
The recreation center out at the base
has been voted one of the nicest in the Air Force. 64% of the residents of the
WECRD have access to it. What need would this building really fill?
Please
sign the petition today.
