I am for saving the Inn and always have been. I would love to see downtown revitalized. I would love to see more tourism and would be absolutely tickled pink to see this town move forward even in small steps.

There has been no effort that I have seen in the three years that I have been here to involve the citizens in any project. Not the main street program not the Inn.. nothing. It seems to me that only the select few are welcome to be a part of anything and the general public isn’t wanted nor needed. I think this attitude is a huge mistake on their part and part of the reason they get so little support.

However, I find the constant misconceptions about the project, the plans, the cost, the management all interesting – and extremely frustrating too.

I have a basic time line of the project on this blog:
http://demarcationville.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/in-with-the-inn/

The information contained therein is factual and has been substantiated by state department, various forms of documentation and those individuals involved – and I did talk to most of those who made this happen. Sen. Mike Williams is the only person I could not nail down.

Now, assuming all information is accurate, based on this time line: I’d love to sit down with those people, who do not support the project or do but question the actions of the town’s administration: present the facts and simply ask – what would you do differently?

The answers might shock `em.

There are over 800 parking spaces downtown.

I wasn’t aware city property taxes had increased and thought they used reserve funds to avoid this in `07. Did I miss something? (Quite often, I do.)

A.

http://anuncommonlife.blogspot.com/2007/02/in-with-inn.html

But seriously my real concern was that they would entertain raising our property taxes again to front the the $10 million they would need to bring their private playhouse up to code.