Granddad Speaks Out On Pollitt's West Side Park Plan

Let's look at the facts:

1) It has the appearance of a conflict of interest. Even if it's not......it looks like it and the whole deal will erode even further the trust the people have in the govt.

2) We have a 200 acre tract of land along the Wicomico River we acquired 10 years ago through the same program and haven't done anything with it. That piece of land isn't that far from the Crooked Oak area.

3) They keep saying that MOST of the funds for the proposed property on Crooked Oak will come from State money (tax dollars). Some money will be County dollars.

4) This land, just like the land along the river, will come off of the tax rolls and we will never get that revenue back.

5) The property at Winter Place Park is not completely used. As a matter of fact I was back there just last week and came across an area that parks and recs is using a dumping area for wasted sod, large roots, etc. - not what a park is supposed to be used for, huh?

6) There is a parcel owned by the county between Forest Grove Rd. and Walston Switch Rd. on the north side of Rt. 50 but south of Rt. 346 which is partially wooded and partially farmed which consists of about 43 acres. Much of the wooded is rented to hunters for profit (incidentally where does that money go?)

7) The appraisals of the Crooked Oak land have been done for some time. Why have they been kept from the Council. My Councilman has told me that he has asked for them on more than one occasion and was given the run around.

The govt. should not be in the business of buying property. Especially when it has so much already.

This whole thing stinks. Something is going on here, folks, and I firmly believe that this a done deal unless the people stand up NOW and state their opposition to bailing out friends