Would someone please explain this behavior to me because the Estes Parkian is very confused with these kinds of politics? These nutty activities seem too rife through this “Valley” as common as the hiccups. Everyone seems so cavalier with this ballsy behavior that would get a politician emasculated in the real world.
Why would the town of Estes Park be repairing the roof of the Holiday Inn?
Tom Pickering’s town department – “Community Development” – is asking for $6,492.00 of our dollars out of the “general fund” to make repairs to the roof of the Conference Center, the Holiday Inns Conference Center.
The “conference center” is a product of EPURA/TIF funding in a joint private/government partnership…we were pleased to build a building for Forever Living Resorts a multi-billion dollar resort conglomerate. Okay…so we built a conference center for those nice folks and we handed them the keys to their new building, aren’t we such nice people to make a three million dollar contribution to those folks in Tucson? So why are we now spending money out of the general fund maintaining this facility? Money that was diverted away from the schools, library, parks and recreation district, and hospital district to build the Conference Center ($3,000,000.00) as a gift to a multi-billion dollar resort conglomerate, I say again. Now we get to maintain it too, how nice!
Why does the Town of Estes Park lease this facility from Forever Living Resorts diverting money away from the police department, fire department, to do so? When sales tax receipts are down, the town wants more tax money for advertising and marketing and they claim there isn’t enough money for the police department and the fire department, but there is enough money to do maintenance for the Holiday Inn and put on a new roof, (I will repeat this because it rings nicely off of the tongue when you actually say it out loud) as a gift to a multi-billion dollar resort conglomerate.
Who else gets free stuff, carpet and roofing? Community Development…hell I could use a new set of curtains!
Additionally, operating and funding a Conference Center puts a town department in direct competition with several other small conference centers in the Valley, but what the heck its only money!
Why doesn’t this piss you off, what kind of irresponsible mooks live here?
