Be careful what you wish for in the City of Salisbury. You see, when Barrie and her Flying Monkeys get something in their head and they sense an approval rating higher than normal, they jump on it.
A new Library and Town Center is a bullsh!t idea and the Mayor is putting out feelers on just what they can run on come election time. A new Fire Station was a $14,000,000.00 idea originally. Then once they felt the general population might actually consider it, they came back with a cost of $10,000,000.00 and all of a sudden these spend hungry fools jumped on board and made it a reality before anyone could stop them.
The MAYOR should NOT be in the retail business and or slumblord business. Creating a "Town Center" will once again put the Developers in the drivers seat and making huge profits at taxpayers expense. If that's not the case and they want to go into denial on that, well, let's go back to the TIF at the Old Mall then.
I also believe it shouldn't be The Daily Times business to brainwash the Eastern Shore into believing things just because a major hitter says it's a good idea. Remember Ladies & Gentlemen, they are good WRITERS! If they were such good business people, they wouldn't be taking home SH!T paychecks. They're the wanna be's of the business world who don't know jack sh!t. It's just as bad as some Doctor giving you financial advice. They're the biggest losers in the Country when it comes to investors, yet when they speak everyone is supposed to listen? Not me! You're on the same playing field unless we're talking medicine.
So be careful what you wish for. Salisbury is NOT Rockville, so unless you want to be taxed like them, cut the bullsh!t because wants and needs are two different things. Just look at the Zoo. Have you actually taken the time to take a quick stroll down there to see what it looks like and how Jim Rapp left it? Yeah, I thought not, but so many of you who were there 10 years ago want to get on here and say what a Gem it it. Not much different from the Library. The Library is just fine where it is and what it offers.
I'll close with this. IF the Daily Times actually knew what they were talking about, PLEASE direct me to ALL of the articles of the multiple people who had complained about what the Library has to offer????????? I win, The Daily Times Loses, period!
GO HERE if you want to read the actual article.
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This mayor's vanity is such that she would borrow the last available penny to get her name on a building at the taxpayers expense.
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ReplyDeleteAnother good and timely post, but gotta disagree on something.
This project, if it proceeds, would be a much bigger boondoogle than the shenanigans at the old Salisbury Mall (BTW, who bought the TIF bonds?). The library needs some renovation and minor (at most) expansion downtown. And, besides, they should be doing smaller branches in Fruitland, Pittsville and Hebron, not a new palace in downtown Salisbury.
Tim: The perfect place to name something for Barrie is the wastewater treatment plant -- how about the new sludge pit, whoops, make that "detention facility"?
Just so you know, there IS a small branch of the Wicomico Library in Pittsville, on the grounds of the Pittsville School. It may be in a small trailer but these folks have done some wonderful programs for the kids and adults of our community. They have computers with internet access and books and a room where the kids can study or do homework. A Library in any community is a welcome thing and we are glad our little trailer is here and hope some day we will have a bigger one. So what I really want to say is, any money put into making the Libraries of our communities better is a good thing.
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Well, I certainly tried to put small libraries in the towns out side of Salisbury during my 18 years at the helm of the library downtown. In fact, I was told by the County Council President, my good friend Vic Laws, back when I first took over the library and we began building the extensions on the old Armory, that THIS new building was to be THE library for Wicomico's people for the next 50 years. So, I had to back off my thinking and consentrate on a new bookmobile to serve the outlying area's better. And we did. So, I am not so keen about a new library building downtown as seems to be the thinking now. I agree yet, with the thought that we best try to serve the outlying towns people better and a new downtown library can wait. Besides that current 50,000 square foot building is quite energy efficient, with its solar panels carrying 70 to 75 % of the heating needs in winter, and offering plenty of internet access there and lots of other materials, including the Maryland Room collection, so that I think if anything, perhaps enlarging the building through some renovations/additions woulod be best right now. It houses the Regional Library as well. Why not move it or close it (since I believe it no longer serves a needed purpose, which was originally to help the other shore counties with materials and tech assistance for their small libraries, which can now stand on their own and are now bigger). If you move or close the Regional Library, it will free up quite a bit of space for other uses by the library. Sorry Tom, but thats how I feel about this proposal, but in your favor I do support such a vision of a new library, but not for right now or the immediate future.
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Joe, isn't Andy HArris a doctor?
ReplyDeleteYes, he is.
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ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, back in India...