Comments for Nonprofit group seeks to lease, develop Westside Park at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://lakeconews.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:54:35 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5928 field that just a mowed lawn. Cleats (soccer, baseball and football) tear it up pretty bad. Then there is the cost of watering it. KYSL certainly used alot more than 2 fields when the games were at CLHS as there used to be teams from ages 4 up to 14. And I think what Ellen meant by \'behind the scenes\' was actually the physical labor and donations of material and machinery to get it done. The People took on this park and the People have been making it happen. The city attorney frets over the quality of improvements might not be up to snuff, well considering the improvements to date were made by the same folks they are thinking of leasing it to - seems a false worry. I have far more faith in Ron Raetz & Crew getting something done than I do the City of Lakeport. The City and the Chamber of Commerce couldn\'t even keep toilet paper in the bathrooms on the 4th - its\' trickle down Bushworld -we are on our own. Folks like the ones that made the park happen give me hope 8) - Donna Christopher Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:40:01 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5920 ekarnowski, While \"behind the scenes\" may seem OK, I would rather see up front stuff. No public property should be transfered to any other entity, non-profit or for profit. If Westside Community Park Inc. wants to fund the improvments with out any claim to the land or park fine, otherwise they have another think coming. Way too many \"deals\" behind closed doors/meetings already to trust anything like that. Just a few more questions, is a second soccer field needed? Is a Baseball field needed? Both will be a drain on limited funds already, can\'t local groups use a HS field already there with a contract and insurance? Look at Clearlake and their skate park/BMX boondogel do you really want another one? Dang a soccer field is nothing more than a mowed field and a couple of portable nets anyway, seems like it could be done for $500 for nets! Bigest cost to the city is liability for something like that. :idea: - kd006 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:57:26 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5918 of behind the scenes work-attending meetings, finding businesses and individuals to donate or work for less than market value, :D assigning responsibilities, carrying out labor, and adding at leat $5,000 worth of responsibility on top of building and maintaining Phase Two-that\'s asking a lot! Let\'s be grateful that they are willing to take this long delayed project on. It would help if everyone gave time and labor to help the project. Then it will be \"doable.\" Charging them money doesn\'t make sense, it\'s just a symbolic action. - ekarnowski Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:42:44 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5904 kd006 - Your comment was a whole lot less silly than the city manager comparing the cost to run a public swimming pool to a police officer\'s salary. That\'s for sure. There is something I just don\'t get, though. If the city is having a difficult time with their budget to the point where they are leasing things out to corporations, why are they only considering charging $1 a month/year for the lease??? (Assuming that is not a typo, because I haven\'t seen a typo on this site yet.) It makes absolutely NO sense. Shouldn\'t they be charging fair market value for a lease? Especially when they are complaining about being in debt up to their eyeballs? Again, I may be missing something. If I am, please feel free to educate me. Though it is very nice to give Nonprofits a break I am not sure the city should be giving that much of a break to anyone when in the same breath they are telling us they are broke. Just doesn\'t make any sense at all. - purplegirl Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:31:49 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5901 Let\'s see if they got rid of the city manager position and went back to actually having a mayor run the city they could save 100K plus a year. Oh and unlike a contract employee the mayor could be held accountable for his/her actions. No never mind I said it was silly. :shock: - kd006 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:44:01 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5898 look like the Grover Norquist version of government, shrink it to the size it can be drowned in a bathtub. The good citizens of Lakeport should just form a militia and they\'d have no law enforcement costs either. I\'d think twice about charging them for the priviledge tho :wink: - Donna Christopher Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:19:11 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4821/919/#comment-5894 the city of lakeport will be auctioning-off library park and leasing-out city hall, bids start at $25 for the park and $1 per-year for city hall, contact Jerry Gillham for more info! Nice of Gillham to finish disassembling the town before he heads-out on another all-expenses paid trip to dubbya\'s desert garden spot, Burke won\'t have much to manage at the rate Gillham is going! - smurf Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:14:25 +0100