A spray park is not in the budget – hmm. I wonder if the hats and blue trees were in the budget? The money spent on the revised OCP could easily be spent here. We have a hot spell annually and it may be getting more frequent according to many studies. The muni is planning for driverless cars that might happen in 15 years, yet the hot weather is happening now and has happened for the last 20 years.
I don’t care how smart you think you are, you can’t predict the future, but now it is hot.
What kind of savvy community doesn’t have a water park and a theatre – but we are preparing for a driverless society. Let me see if I understand this, the taxpayer wants some of their tax money to be spent on water amusements, not new letterhead, signs, economic development office, tech expansion, hats, etc. and we see by actions other things are more important .
I am interested to know our mayor’s definition of grass roots. The revised OCP was grassroots fuelled or so she said, but a water park, which has way more support is just noise – c’mon. Talk is cheap, by action the report card is poor.
I hate to break it to you, but the taxpayer is the dog here and council and the bureaucrats are the tail. Doug Race suggests corporate sponsorship might be a difference maker. I don’t recall the blue trees being contingent on corporate sponsorship. We pay taxes so we may enhance the living experience, not to feed some private agenda of council.
I see our mayor is off on holidays. I was under the impression that all elected staff would be off at the same time so business of the community would be interrupted for only a month, rather than have disruptions occur.
Maybe I don’t remember correctly but last election I don’t recall any candidates saying we need more time off and a raise. It doesn’t seem like very long ago that our mayor was in Japan – now she is probably at the cottage. How does she have such time?
Last week in – Helmut Manzl’s column “Violations will continue” – The Good Neighbour Guidelines are mentioned. These guidelines, published by the District of Squamish, are an exercise in nothingness. A water park is unaffordable and not in the budget, but these guidelines are? C’mon.
Dave Colledge
Brackendale
