1. $47,500.00
2. $65,000.00
3. $400,000.00
Mind you, this is basically a stage, so how crazy is that. Ask yourself this, how far would $47,500.00 go towards a new addition to your home, let alone $400,000.00? Kinda makes you think, doesn't it.
However, it's nowhere near as bad as what the Delmar High School just paid for a dinky outdoor locker room where taxpayers should be outraged at the Board of Education. They paid $800,000.00 for a very tiny building that simply houses lockers. I also heard they also paid the company $100,000.00 just to power wash it.
I have to ask, when is everyone going to finally get fed up with this out of control spending. By the way, you're not supposed to know what kind of money they are spending because all you have to do is ask yourself, did you hear ANY of the information I've provided this past hour from WBOC, WMDT or the Daily Times? Yeah, I'm the Anti Christ because I expose the TRUTH. Go figure.
It is our understanding the shell company who won the bid is backed by Palmer Gillis.
View Document You can find this under "award of bids" in the beginning of the packet.
The president of that company won the Palmer Gillis entrepreneur of the year award.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember the post you did on the "stage and seating" in pemberton park.
ReplyDeleteYou should see it. Its this tiny wooden square that will only hold a one person band.
I thought it was a joke when I actually saw the size of it. It serves no purpose, really.
They would have been better off holding a "bring your own chair" event in one of the meadows.
Palmer Gillis needs to be footing all these new city bills. After all our screwball Mayor is giving the city to him for pennies on a dollars.
ReplyDeleteLike all recipients of taxpayer money, they don't care how much anything costs. After all, it is other people's money, not theirs, that they are spending. So spending becomes padding your friends pockets in return for??? Well you can guess how the bureaucrats get something back out of their spending lavishly on their "business" partners. Politics folks. It's how it's done. Yep, government spending is usually a corrupt process.
ReplyDeleteDay nearly became orgasmic over Headquarters live after most on this site told him it would be a failure. Can't wait until this amphitheater FAILS so we can tell the dope TOLD YOU SO!
ReplyDeletegreat another waste of tax dollars. That will draw in hood rats like moths to a flame. nobody will want to go there because of them and it will sit vacant.
ReplyDeleteWhite collar crime is rampant against the citizens yet our sheriff and states attorney spend their time with petty crimes....
ReplyDeleteMaybe they can build the "amphitheater" underwater! Right in the river by the hotel. This way we (the public) won't have to hear it and those who patronize the place will have a really cool venue. They can watch the dead fish, trash, and turds float by while enjoying local bands perform non-catchy originals and cover songs for bands that were never really all that popular from the 60's and 70's.
ReplyDeleteJust my two cents.
Joe...you really need to look into and do its own story on the referendum spending of the Delmar School District. The locker room is an absolute joke but the list goes on and on. You need to expose the truth and let the tax payers know what is happening.
ReplyDeleteUse the taxpayers money to fix what needs to be fixed in Salisbury like the streets!
ReplyDeletean amphitheater is usually a series of benches (usually raised beds in the earth) arranged semi-circular around a stage. Where is there a significant hill around the river to build one?
ReplyDeleteJust how much is Jakester going to cut from the Fire Department and Police Department budgets for this stupid escapade?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone turned this stuff over to the FBI or the DOJ yet?
ReplyDeleteso that's the plan. Bring in the folk festival, use it as an excuse to spend money on building a stage. I wonder, considering how many times Jake has been on Don Rush's program, what kind of incestuous relationship Delmarva Public Radio, the folk festival and Jake Day have........
ReplyDeleteAnd yet with all of this evidence on how they waste money, you people keep on loving and praising the rise of taxes and fees for them to do as they see fit...
ReplyDeleteThat is why they have to build a new school, every other year, becasue someone isn't smart enough to build a school that can properly house kids all day...You have a old school that can handle 1,000 kids, then it gets to full or over packed and so you build a new school, that the new school can handle 1,100 kids... Sometimes I wonder how humanity can even survive with all of the stupid people out here... And the other smart people who let the stupid people take over and run everything... Then complain about it...
We have an amphitheater. Where events have already been held. It is in front of the government office building. It has been used for this purpose! He needs to get his head out of the clouds and do what is BEST for the taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteCan I see a proposed ROI on this? The city is a business, so if you want to spend 40k or 400k of OUR money, what's your plan for ROI? How soon can the see make that 40 - 400K back. Also, what's the price for monthly and yearly upkeep? How long will the stage and seating last? What's the plan to clean up the graffiti that will be there after the first night?
ReplyDeleteThe worst part about Jake Day is that he seldom sees a project to it's finish. He'll glamorize the idea, get it started and then abandon it. What is really troublesome about his "great" ideas now is that they are extremely costly and directed towards special interests and/or an extremely small portion of Salisbury taxpayers. He doesn't represent the tax base as a whole - ever! And when he does something outside of Downtown Salisbury, he's like "ooo ooo, look at what we did here!" Like paving Beaglin Park Drive (which didn't really need paving to begin with, unlike MANY other streets in Salisbury), he paraded around town in a Facebook video about slow traffic cause by the "improvements," but as of Friday (nearly two months after the paving was completed) there still wasn't any striping on Beaglin Park Drive. Just another example of how he can finish a project...
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of the Mayors but I think an amphitheater is a great idea but it hasn't seemed to work in Delmar.
ReplyDeleteThis and many other locations will need to be created and, or, revamped. The city has to create, fund, and hire plenty of other positions, just to support the festival. This is all part of the contract between the city and Folk Festival. The city will also flip the bill, provide lodging, for Folk Festival staff during the event(s).
ReplyDeleteThere's big bucks needed in order to be a host town for these types of festivals. Few small/medium-sized town/cities have the resources needed to pull it off, without barrowing, reallocating, or begging.
My child's private school spends less per pupil than public schools, but 99% of their students go on to college.We need school vouchers NOW. Local public schools provide meals year round, give tablets to kids for free that end up broken or stolen and their teachers send their own kids to private school.Hmmmm and these schools keep on begging for money. Cut them off, make them do what they have to do to operate.
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ReplyDelete3:08 - Just John Q Public here . . .
ReplyDelete"My child's private school spends less per pupil than public schools, but 99% of their students go on to college."
In your child's private school, how many of the students are disabled with special needs? How many speak another primary language at home other than English? How many are from economically disadvantaged families and come to school without basic necessities like lunch and supplies? How many change addresses every couple of months because of ongoing homelessness?
I think you would find, if you compare apples to apples, ie. Compare the public school kids that have the same demographics as your daughter's private school students, the same % of kids go to college, AND the public school spends LESS per pupil on those same demographic kids.
Face it, taxpayer $$, often unfairly, absorb the cost of educating those who are deemed at risk students.
Yes, if Delmar School Dist spent that crazy amount on locker space, they need chastised, but that is not in Wicomico County's jurisdiction.
John Q , the other kids are not my problem. Call me cold or uncaring but its not my responsibility. They can stay in public schools but I am sick of being forced by taxation to support public liberal-ruled schools.The damn teachers who work in those schools won't even send their own kids to schools they work st. What does that tell you.
ReplyDeleteFor what ? Hog callin, chicken pluckin, crab picken and water melon seed spitting displays along with a sweat pants fashion show topped with a Meth cook off at the end. How about open the streets for illegal dirt bike racing and a monster truck rodeo to see how fast you can pull into a handicapped spot crawl your fat butt down and limp to a shopping scooter.
ReplyDeleteI think erecting a public gallows would draw a bigger crowd and better serve the public good. There will never be culture here.
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ReplyDeleteIDIOT!
ReplyDeleteThe quasi amphitheater called Headquarters Live never got a pulse, and it was indoors with the ability to open the garage doors. Weather intrudes on occasion! Like HQ Live it's a solution in search of a demand that doesn't exist.
SU, Wor-Wic, the high schools all have venues, as do churches and church halls. Back to the scribbling board.
So where will they locate the home of The Jake Day Players? No public smoking so no smokers to patronize; all the booze sales are bringing hockey to the Civic Center. How about raised semi-circle tiers in the center of the proposed roundabout?
And don't forget, it must have lots and lots of spaces for the bicyclists to stow their wheels!
You absolutely nailed it!! The demand does not exist in this city for such a venue. Like everything else that has come and gone once the newness wears off it Dade's away
DeleteThis has gone beyond out of control spending. This is theft.
ReplyDeleteIf the Festival is going to need 5-7 of these stages, will that mean we're in it for $25 million or so outside of the costs of paying the musicians?
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