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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Wow – I had no clue Moscow had so much extra cash!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Which makes the decision some time back to eliminate the glass recycling drop-off site on the east side of town – which cost a pittance – all the more puzzling to me. That glass recycling bin was heavily used in spite of the decidedly user UNfriendly design.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>I guess this kind of nonsense is what’s to be expected with a “conservative” City Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>If I were a petty person completely unconcerned with our carbon footprint – the way the current Council seems to be -- we’d quit absorbing the cost ourselves and simply dump our glass into the trash. I imagine it wouldn’t take long if everyone did so for our rates to be hiked yet again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>OTOH, perhaps we’re simply being stupid not to do so since Moscow is apparently rolling in cash!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Particularly since the City seems hell bent & determined to remove properties from our CBC -- the City’s economic engine – tax rolls to benefit one peculiar religious preference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Which reminds me . . . for those interested in maintaining our downtown as an economic engine, the City Council will be deciding whether to even “consider” the latest appeals to New St. Andrew’s #2: the 680 seat conference center cum auditorium cum music conservatory . . . oops – that’s an private religious educational institution. Given that the current Council failed to give adequate consideration to four of the five previous appeals (to the tune of $220 each), I fear the most recent appeals will receive the same lack of consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Of course, I guess that doesn’t matter since the City seems to have so much extra money!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Who knew?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Saundra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>~ Susan B. Anthony<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Moscow Cares<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] City Council wants to waste $500, 000 on unneeded span<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of today's (August 16, 2017) with thanks to Lee Rozen.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:75.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:31.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Our View: City Council wants to waste $500,000 on unneeded span<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>By Lee Rozen, for the editorial board<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There needs to be a bridge over Paradise Creek on Third Street.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Students from homes east of Mountain View Road, who are trying to get to the high school or university, cross the creek there, often carrying bicycles as well as backpacks. For the young and agile, it's a challenge worth daring.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Despite what the Moscow City Council thinks, there really doesn't need to be a bridge there big enough to handle motor vehicles.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Three blocks to the south, Sixth Street connects to the courthouse, downtown, the university and the road to Pullman. Eight blocks south a driver can get on state Highway 8 and speed off eastbound or westbound.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Four blocks to the north B Street connects to Hayes Street, and in another two blocks D Street connects to Main Street.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But here's the rub.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Moscow City Council seems determined to spend $580,000 of local taxpayer money on an unnecessary bridge.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The necessary bridge - the one that would handle walkers and bicyclists - would cost $75,000 to $85,000, according to city estimates.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The City Council is determined to waste just short of half a million of our tax dollars on a bridge no one needs.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is no traffic problem that a motor vehicle bridge there would solve. Opponents are convinced it will create some problems, instead, when more cars jam Third Street than it is designed to handle. That traffic is now spread over D, B and Sixth streets and Highway 8, because drivers know Third isn't a through street.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>True, Moscow's traffic problems, if any, are on Third Street, now. But they are on the approaches to Jackson Street from the west and to Third Street from the south on Washington Street. A bridge over the creek, Paradise, is a bridge too far away to have any effect on that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A better solution would be to take some of the half million dollars the City Council wants to waste on an unnecessary bridge to make Third Street friendlier for bicycles from Mountain View Road to Washington Street by actually discouraging auto traffic there. In turn, discouraging bicycles on D and Sixth streets over that same stretch makes sense.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What the council is doing doesn't make any sense.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/"><span style='color:black'>http://www.MoscowCares.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>