Ok, so we have 30, yes that was the report given, 30 planes a month that land for fuel in Gonzales. So let's spend $100,000 in funds to build an apron at Gonzales International Airport. Now in all fairness, $50K is coming from a grant, but $50,000 is coming out our our money!
REALLY??? OMG!!! We average 1 (uno, ein, un, jeden, one, singular) plane a day fueling in Gonzales and we're going to spend almost $10 for every man, woman and child in our town for this? Where is the return on investment on this?
So a plane has to wait to refuel, it's not like we are talking about a 4 hour wait here. This is not AUS or IAH, we're talking about Gonzales!
Look, I love that we have people flying in here. I love that we have people from outside out town flying in. But how, especially in todays' financial situation, can we even consider this expenditure.
OH WAIT THERE'S MORE...cause you see, we approved this because we got the $50,000 grant and had it budgeted for $50,000 (a wash), and honestly if someone else wants to pay for this I'm very OK with it, but nope, so remember that post I made last month about all our cost, and every time I go to a city council meeting there's another $100,000....well this was $50,000 of that $100,000 from this meeting. So once again we're our already deficit budget is going deeper and deeper into the red.
Come back later this week, and I'll let you know where the rest of that money went.
In the mean time GRAB ONTO YOUR WALLETS because one way or another you and I are going to pay for EVERY SINGLE DIME SPENT!
On a quick side note, those of you in District 4 were once again not represented, as Councilman Logan has decided that umpiring baseball was more important that our city business. I understand his desire to help, but he made a commitment to be at these meetings, and missed presentations by LNV and our city engineer about MILLIONS of dollars worth of expenditures. This was a regularly planned meeting. He also missed last weeks meeting where 50 applicants were whittled down to 9 candidates. Nothing important like the entire future of our city here.Let's get our priorities straight Mr. Logan, either that or give up your seat to someone who does care about this city!
God Bless,
Dennis Nesser
Did they vote to buy that land?
ReplyDeleteYes, that's another post this week, but at a MAJOR savings over the previously asked price.
ReplyDeleteBut at a much higher cost than first proposed to city council.
ReplyDeleteIt's a natural thing for the city to purchase the property, but not now. Not so they can sell $18 truck loads of water. Which by the way should have been sold for $15 to $16 dollars a thousand gallons. That is the going price, not $3 a thousand.
As we have seen from our city council many many times, 20/20 hindsight. A simple tabled motion for further research would work wonders for Gonzales, not the shoot first then ask questions.
They raised the rate for treated water to $12/thousand a month or so ago, from $8/thousand, which is the mean rate for this area.
ReplyDeleteThe $3 is suppose to be untreated water which we were getting $0 for previously. In addition the private sector is paying for all infrastructure. At 100 - 200 trucks per day that could add up to substantial income for something we were not getting a dime for previously. I see a positive return on our investment in minimal amount of time.
Oil companies are paying $15 to $16 to ranchers for tank water.
ReplyDeleteDennis: Who will benefit from the apron at the airport?
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