Have been following the on-goings at Vernon city hall when it comes to wasting our tax dollars?
We have been led up the garden path when we foolishly believe that the Mayor, et al, are directly responsible for coming up with new schemes to vacate the city coffers.
It turns out that faceless, nameless peons scurry around dreaming up ridiculous ideas, hoping that they will take wing.
For instance, before the sewer lines were put in to the Blue Jay subdivision, there were questions about why there wasn’t a plan to widen the road so there could be a shoulder for people to walk or ride a bicycle.
It seemed like a good idea. Well, the scurriers quashed that idea because it wasn’t theirs. So life continues and the subject is dropped.
Months later, people are wondering why there isn’t a bike lane.
Apparently, if someone dies walking or riding, something could be done. Not only that, it will only cost $150,000.
So what is the shocking part of this statement?
Not the $150,000. but that someone has to die.
I didn’t know that taxpayers grow on trees and are not allowed to have their concerns met.
So, turn the page back a few years and visit the Coldstream Hotel fiasco.
The cost to buy and then demolish would have started a well funded revolution in Central America.
Fortunately, we have turned that into the most expensive parking lot in Vernon. So the scurriers feel the heat and decide the taxpayers can afford $650,000 to sweeten the pot for future buyers that may want to buy the land at a fire sale price, naturally.
People that live in the Blue Jay subdivision were told the regional district not taking responsibility for Old Kamloops Road beyond the turnoff to the subdivision is the reason why someone will have to be punted before anyone in the department will stand up and be counted.
They probably they went to the Armstrong fair and had a dose of reality while watching the whack-a-mole game.
Anyone else out there wonder about these items?
Bob Johnston
Vernon
