[Durham INC] no ideas yet...

[Kelly Jarrett]

The snide and insulting tone is unlikely to get you much buy-in.

Randy Pickle wrote:
> So out of this collective bunch, you mean no one has any ideas of 
> how the City can reduce spending and save some money? That's hard to 
> believe.
>  
> So you didn't like the idea of getting rid of some human assets. So 
> let's look at physical ones. Here's something that has been mentioned. 
> Sell some parks (we have 66 I believe). It shouldn't cause any alarm 
> for those in Northgate, Rockwood, Forest Hills (or any of the parks 
> built in bottoms and being mostly in a flood plain), but look at Duke 
> Park. It's high and dry and full of beautiful mature oaks. What a 
> pretty subdivision that would be. And there are others parks that 
> are less desirable because of their location, yet able to be sold and 
> developed. And then there are yet other parks that we can never 
> come-out on selling because of the Federal funds used to buy the land 
> (this makes it more expensive to sell them; breaking even on their 
> sell would be lucky). How does getting rid of Duke Park sound? Hey, 
> it's for the greater good. Perhaps employees are looking better all 
> the time...
>  
> Come on folks, this is where an idea might just make the ends meet. 
> Instead of posting ideas by a Pulitzer Prize winner (for his 3rd world 
> economic work; he thinks  those getting unemployment checks stimulate 
> the economy; I doubt the 15 million plus people who are unemployed 
> think that...), brainstorm on some cost cutting measures. It all adds 
> up! Maybe paying more taxes is fine with you; it's not with me.
>  
> RWP
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