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MarcoCitizen writes:

in response to ajm3s:

What about Veterans Park? We have not even developed that expensive piece of real estate that is now a conditional Market Square. Yet, the Council of past and the residents voted to purchase the Glon property. Now we live with the consequences. So to your need to MAKE THE TIME, well time is money and it goes both ways. When you spend a lot in the past for projects that do not come to fruition, we cannot continue on this path and now need to make choices with a new set of conditions.

And to the P&R Foundation, put up the fund raising money for your ideal to meet children's need. If in your words, it was for ALL, why discredit the "old folks". I believe we need more commentary from the P&R Foundation, because from my perspective I may need enlightenment. From what I hear, I sense there are some that have seen the vision but rejected the NEED. Or maybe, we should rename it a SENIOR CENTER and get the support of the "old folks". But that is not what the families want on this island, they do not see the NEED.

Do we really need an indoor gym? A computer classroom? A teaching kitchen?

There are so many mislaid specifications that it parallels the genesis of the MIA and its misguided model for education. Unless of course, you believe, as I do, this Community Center was an extension of the MIA think tank, coupled with a belief that Mr. Milk and his second hand man, can compete with the hospitality industry on Marco Island.

Or is this a "keeping up with the Jones" in Naples.

God help us all.

God will help when we rise up to replace the stagnant Parks Committee thinking with new blood that recognizes and represents present priorities - reduce debt and reduce City expenditures.

The giddy expenditures of the past are examples of behavior we need to avoid hereafter. Resignations for some of these committee fossils who continue to mindlessly support planning mistakes of the past would help!

Otherwise we will have to evict them from our City planning and withdraw their influence.

I question whether the City Manager has the political will (guts) to change our historical course towards financial ruin and repopulate our City advisory commissions with smarter, responsible and representative citizens. Let's push him to address this core issue.

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