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Mr. Twigg,<br><br>
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If you think going to workshops to plan how to blow taxpayers money is
<br>
hard work then I would suggest you don't have much of a real job. Many
<br>
of us would love the luxury of having such time to fritter away, <br>
especially when it involves spending other's money.<br>
If your group really only wants more fields then why wasn't there more
<br>
support for the new high-school and new grade-school which would have
<br>
had ball fields associated? Putting it with the school district also
<br>
supplies professional supervisors for the kids instead of relying on the
<br>
unknown potential crackpot for a coach. <br>
The location of the proposed complex is wrong, wrong, wrong for the
<br>
advertised complex. How can any group of viable adults plan 300 cars to
<br>
be congregating (and coming and going between games) in a spot that has
<br>
a single access? Were any of you at the workshops awake? The distance
<br>
away from the children is another obvious blunder in the site selection.
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How many children will have reasonable access to that site for their own
<br>
recreational uses? Can you picture sending a child of say 11-12 years
<br>
old to go play in the new complex?<br>
If you want to personalize my comments fine but don't think for a minute
<br>
that I am ashamed of anything I say.<br>
The Costner analogy has to do with the predictions by the Director of
<br>
Recreation that the tournaments (22/year he claimed) would be a great
<br>
boon to the local economy. Costner built the field at great cost to his
<br>
farm and the only ones who showed up were ghosts. That is exactly where
<br>
this will lead. No way is there such a gathering of ballplayers in the
<br>
region who are dying to come here and play ball. Pipe dream and
silly.<br>
You are correct that I am one of these co-authors of the letter. I stand
<br>
by that letter as well as a similar letter I have written to the Council
<br>
and Mayor. The alternative plan as proposed by the Calverts and designed
<br>
by Rowen is a good compromise. I do not however trust the current local
<br>
government. Their word does not hold. The 1912 building, the Alturas tax
<br>
giveaway, and the incubator stand as monuments to their trustworthiness.
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"No tax moneys will be used for these projects".<br>
It is of great importance to me that this complex is scaled down to the
<br>
size of the alternative plan (giving two new ball fields for children).
<br>
If we do this right the 2.9 million dollars could put ball fields in a
<br>
few locations in town making them much more useful to the kids than
<br>
jamming it all in one distant location. <br><br>
James Reynolds <br>
1424 Borah ave <br>
Moscow ID<br><br>
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who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."<br>
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