Estes Park speak your mind,,, VOTE!
With that said, we invite you to take a tour of your polling place, Town Hall. Look around nice isn’t it? State of the art computers on every desk, hard wood trim, clean, painted and new carpet. Go on over to the billing station, nice isn’t it, all new. Wander on over to the trustees board room, you will find state of the art audiovisual equipment, built in broadcast studio, well trimmed and gold plated. The town administrator’s office, EPURA office space is generous, beautiful office furniture and well appointed conference room, with art! Solid wood front doors, lots of space no one crowded, well heated in the winter, cool in the summer and handicapped accessible. One would be hard pressed to find a nicer town hall in Aspen, Vail, Steamboat Springs, Breckenridge, Telluride, or Jackson Hole.
This ladies and gentlemen is the old high school, we built a new campus for the kids 35 years ago, remember? This building is older by decades than any of the school buildings.
So why is the old high school thirty five years later a state of the art Town Hall and the schools, thirty five years later, a dump? The town administrator’s wife works for the school district, so does the mayor and his wife. This is a small town the same people belong to all the same clubs; the same people sit on commissions with the town and the school board. They all belong to the Rotary together, the bank presidents, school super, town administer, and mayor they all schmooze socially. Let me repeat this again this is a small town all the money comes from the valley. The school board gets a pretty good budget, so why the huge disparity? They shared the same accounting firm, banked at the same bank, belong to the same clubs.
I do not get it. Call me dumb, call me slow, call me hardheaded, call me negative, and call me a poop. Why does town hall seem to have all the money they need to give away $4000,000.00 dollars a whack to invest in property outside town limits, supplement the school district swimming pool, build visitors center, kayak things, sidewalks all over the county, annual employee bonuses and the school district has holes in its jeans? The bankers drive Mercedes Benz stretch luxury automobiles but the businesses cannot afford to pay their light bills! There is money in this town coming from us, coming from our businesses. It’s going somewhere, it went somewhere, and it didn’t go to the kids. Citizens of Estes Park you need to start getting a clue and stop feeding this money machine. Town employees own buildings down town, school district employees own businesses around town, the town and the school district are the biggest employers and the players are pulling milk from both cows. You want more money from me,,, for the kids. Yea sure.
The fire district idea is simply creating bigger and more complex government to squeeze more money into the system.
The school board wants money for the kids, the Estes Parkian wants accountability from the adults.
With that said, we invite you to take a tour of your polling place, Town Hall. Look around nice isn’t it? State of the art computers on every desk, hard wood trim, clean, painted and new carpet. Go on over to the billing station, nice isn’t it, all new. Wander on over to the trustees board room, you will find state of the art audiovisual equipment, built in broadcast studio, well trimmed and gold plated. The town administrator’s office, EPURA office space is generous, beautiful office furniture and well appointed conference room, with art! Solid wood front doors, lots of space no one crowded, well heated in the winter, cool in the summer and handicapped accessible. One would be hard pressed to find a nicer town hall in Aspen, Vail, Steamboat Springs, Breckenridge, Telluride, or Jackson Hole.
This ladies and gentlemen is the old high school, we built a new campus for the kids 35 years ago, remember? This building is older by decades than any of the school buildings.
So why is the old high school thirty five years later a state of the art Town Hall and the schools, thirty five years later, a dump? The town administrator’s wife works for the school district, so does the mayor and his wife. This is a small town the same people belong to all the same clubs; the same people sit on commissions with the town and the school board. They all belong to the Rotary together, the bank presidents, school super, town administer, and mayor they all schmooze socially. Let me repeat this again this is a small town all the money comes from the valley. The school board gets a pretty good budget, so why the huge disparity? They shared the same accounting firm, banked at the same bank, belong to the same clubs.
I do not get it. Call me dumb, call me slow, call me hardheaded, call me negative, and call me a poop. Why does town hall seem to have all the money they need to give away $4000,000.00 dollars a whack to invest in property outside town limits, supplement the school district swimming pool, build visitors center, kayak things, sidewalks all over the county, annual employee bonuses and the school district has holes in its jeans? The bankers drive Mercedes Benz stretch luxury automobiles but the businesses cannot afford to pay their light bills! There is money in this town coming from us, coming from our businesses. It’s going somewhere, it went somewhere, and it didn’t go to the kids. Citizens of Estes Park you need to start getting a clue and stop feeding this money machine. Town employees own buildings down town, school district employees own businesses around town, the town and the school district are the biggest employers and the players are pulling milk from both cows. You want more money from me,,, for the kids. Yea sure.
The fire district idea is simply creating bigger and more complex government to squeeze more money into the system.
The school board wants money for the kids, the Estes Parkian wants accountability from the adults.
