http://www.centergroveinc.org/2009/12/08/joint-meeting-on-reorganization-plan-dec-8/ Following the future of White River Township Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:57:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.centergroveinc.org/2009/12/08/joint-meeting-on-reorganization-plan-dec-8/comment-page-1/#comment-1030 Dann Veldkamp Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:38:48 +0000 http://www.centergroveinc.org/?p=3075#comment-1030 Mea Culpa. Roughly written during the meeting. "Edited" when one could not sleep at 1 AM. Missed this very important distinction. I think they are now all fixed. Mea Culpa. Roughly written during the meeting. “Edited” when one could not sleep at 1 AM. Missed this very important distinction. I think they are now all fixed.

]]> http://www.centergroveinc.org/2009/12/08/joint-meeting-on-reorganization-plan-dec-8/comment-page-1/#comment-1028 MARK DEVOE Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:22:09 +0000 http://www.centergroveinc.org/?p=3075#comment-1028 I'm completely confused by the multiple references to a Jan 1, 2010 implementation date. How could that happen when it won't even be voted on until May, 2010?? Someone help me. I’m completely confused by the multiple references to a Jan 1, 2010 implementation date. How could that happen when it won’t even be voted on until May, 2010?? Someone help me.

]]> http://www.centergroveinc.org/2009/12/08/joint-meeting-on-reorganization-plan-dec-8/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 Proud Southsider Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:07:52 +0000 http://www.centergroveinc.org/?p=3075#comment-1022 Let's see. For only $400 more in taxes you might get a trail sometime in the next two or three decades, but they can't really say. The only thing that they can really say for sure is that you get the privilege of being governed by nanny statists like Linda Gibson and liberals like Brent Corey, who will just ignore you and any issue you bring to them. And of course you have a totally meaningless one-year budget with no costs, so what's going to happen to your taxes in another couple years? How many years will it take $400 more in taxes to become $500 more in taxes when they start really getting into fixing the roads or building all these parks? They can't say. They don't know because they never really did a study in the first place. They have what they call a budget, but they don't have facts about anything. But we should pay $400 more in taxes so that Greenwood can get more riverboat money. That makes a lot of sense. We should pay $400 more in taxes for all eternity because some people volunteered their time. That really makes a lot of sense. They didn't really do a study and didn't even come up with costs for roads or anything. They'll start up a stormwater utility and it'll cost you five bucks a month. That's it, no more information about that. Just give us your money, we don't need to explain how we'll use it. The plan is filled with stuff like that and that's not a study, that's half-baked garbage that wouldn't fly in a fifth-grade classroom. A board should develop a policy about streetlights--it took them a year--a year!--to come up with suggestions like that. If you took this reorg plan to a bank, you wouldn't be walking out with a loan. It isn't worth the paper it's printed on. There are no facts about anything. Read the plan. Read it. The only reason the plan even gives for doing this is that Greenwood taxes will go down a little bit at first. But guess what's going to happen after they don't have to sell this to voters anymore. Let’s see. For only $400 more in taxes you might get a trail sometime in the next two or three decades, but they can’t really say. The only thing that they can really say for sure is that you get the privilege of being governed by nanny statists like Linda Gibson and liberals like Brent Corey, who will just ignore you and any issue you bring to them. And of course you have a totally meaningless one-year budget with no costs, so what’s going to happen to your taxes in another couple years? How many years will it take $400 more in taxes to become $500 more in taxes when they start really getting into fixing the roads or building all these parks? They can’t say. They don’t know because they never really did a study in the first place. They have what they call a budget, but they don’t have facts about anything.
But we should pay $400 more in taxes so that Greenwood can get more riverboat money. That makes a lot of sense. We should pay $400 more in taxes for all eternity because some people volunteered their time. That really makes a lot of sense.
They didn’t really do a study and didn’t even come up with costs for roads or anything. They’ll start up a stormwater utility and it’ll cost you five bucks a month. That’s it, no more information about that. Just give us your money, we don’t need to explain how we’ll use it. The plan is filled with stuff like that and that’s not a study, that’s half-baked garbage that wouldn’t fly in a fifth-grade classroom. A board should develop a policy about streetlights–it took them a year–a year!–to come up with suggestions like that.
If you took this reorg plan to a bank, you wouldn’t be walking out with a loan. It isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. There are no facts about anything. Read the plan. Read it. The only reason the plan even gives for doing this is that Greenwood taxes will go down a little bit at first. But guess what’s going to happen after they don’t have to sell this to voters anymore.

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