In the last economic development advisory committee meeting Town administrator Randy Repolla admitted that the statistics that the town create are faulty in fact the word he used was... shit. Is this like a new revelation, like Holly Molly guys would you look at what I discovered ALL OUR DATA IS SHIT. You mean like... If its not broke don’t fix it Randy?
Why is this important? If you have to ask that question well you will not be reading this because you can’t read Bubba. You are to busy brushing that one remaining tooth to under stand what it is we been... splaining to ya.
What else do town employees have to do but get the numbers right? Its public money fool. The town hires consultants they spend money based on what? Business is done behind closed Town Hall doors invisible to diligent citizen oversight and the data we do see is faulty. Town Hall has no counter point they have eliminated all political apposition, except the Estesparkian. The papers print anything they regurgitate they are the single and only expert. No one to blame because it is a one party political system, the democrats blame the republicans and visa versa but in Estes Park who is the counter point to the point? If the town is economically failing because eighty five percent of the businesses fail that’s alarming. Businesses keep coming here to fail? What gives a potential investor the impression that their endeavor will succeed when 85% fail. The town has been driving the bus and navigating the way for over fifteen years. If we are lost who is to blame? Yes, blame is relevant someone is passing bad information, was it a mistake or is it calculated? If businesses have come to Estes Park based on deceptive information generated by the town isn’t that fraud?
Town Hall refuses to float bonds to make necessary infrastructure upgrades because they couldn’t pass the accounting audits demanded by the top brokerage houses. True or false.
If you buy a business license and become a stake holder in the town department CVB are you entitled to buy into the employee benefit package that the tax you collect pays for? True or false?
The Estesparkian brought you the article from the National Geographic Traveler magazine that judged Estes Park as being a prime example of a negative gateway community as a matter of fact saying “do not emulate Estes Park”. The mayor made a statement on the record that the magazine retracted the story to him (it must have been in executive session because no one else in the world heard or saw this retraction) and you all swallowed it. Like a Rocky Mountain Green backed trout hook line and sinker, leader and all. Catch and release to be hooked over and over again. No fool like a desperate fool.
There has been one point source for information in Estes Park and that has been the town trustees and town staff. You would only use shit information for one of two possibilities (1) you are stupid (2) you are deliberately deceptive. (I suppose there is a third you are stupidly deceptive or deceptively stupid but you get the point).
Any real town would be outraged. But Estes Park is not a real town it is more like a movie set. The town that most people see is Elkhorn and Moraine which is a false front once you get past the façade to fake out the tourists there is no substance no community glue. No cultural cement that binds past to present nothing for new comers to adopt. Ski area... gone, ski jumping... gone. Pride in being Estesparkian, Coloradoian, for Gods sake you have a Corn Husker store. That in it’s self is some sort of sacrilege. How long would a Buffs store last in Lincoln, you still don’t get it do ya Bubba?
Fake data, Town Hall above the law… It all fits.
