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As you watch this video of Town Meeting 9/7/2017, and the preliminary budget was passed with the tie broken by the Mayor, keep this key phrase in mind: we are looking at an increase in cost to the lagoon project of $700,000 + at this time. If we are looking at an increase of that amount now, what will it increase to in several months??? With the hurricanes all but destroying a large portion of the south eastern coast and gas prices already rising to more than .30 cents a gallon in the last several weeks, we can look forward to higher costs in almost everything including freight costs. Now the budget has increased in almost every line item, including raises. I would ask, how do we plan to repay a loan that will be added or renegotiated into a loan we have already signed onto for more than a million dollars??? We will be also facing a problem with the Clarks Fork River in the future, eroding and perhaps threating the infrastructure of the lagoons and adjacent structures. I push hard to reduce the budget, because we need to start planning for future needs and events that will cost the Town a lot of money. Now, it is apparent to me that two of our council members have not given these things much thought at all. The question of possible erosion of the riverbank was not even brought into the scope of thought by engineers who have and will collect a huge amount of money for their work, nor was it discussed as a future possibility by the Town. We have heard of the concern of landowners along the river and it was left at that. I will continue my push for a reduced budget and future saving, though I feel the effort will be fruitless.
As you watch this video of Town Meeting 9/7/2017, and the preliminary budget was passed with the tie broken by the Mayor, keep this key phrase in mind: we are looking at an increase in cost to the lagoon project of $700,000 + at this time. If we are looking at an increase of that amount now, what will it increase to in several months??? With the hurricanes all but destroying a large portion of the south eastern coast and gas prices already rising to more than .30 cents a gallon in the last several weeks, we can look forward to higher costs in almost everything including freight costs. Now the budget has increased in almost every line item, including raises. I would ask, how do we plan to repay a loan that will be added or renegotiated into a loan we have already signed onto for more than a million dollars??? We will be also facing a problem with the Clarks Fork River in the future, eroding and perhaps threating the infrastructure of the lagoons and adjacent structures. I push hard to reduce the budget, because we need to start planning for future needs and events that will cost the Town a lot of money. Now, it is apparent to me that two of our council members have not given these things much thought at all. The question of possible erosion of the riverbank was not even brought into the scope of thought by engineers who have and will collect a huge amount of money for their work, nor was it discussed as a future possibility by the Town. We have heard of the concern of landowners along the river and it was left at that. I will continue my push for a reduced budget and future saving, though I feel the effort will be fruitless.