Re: Circle of Benches: Why doesn't the city finance this from next year's budget surplus?
I read in Sonoma West that this great and worthy project is hitting a wall as there is no money to pay for it. I feel it serves a social benefit to our community, and city parks, to have circular benches for public use. I see no reason why the city cannot pay for this improvement to our town square. It is not a private usage, or even a specialized non-profit (serving a limited segment of the community).
Check out my post here, fourth down, describing the $500,000 in surplus funding being earmarked for an expansion of the modern fire station, with no public debate, no publicly expressed need, no public support that I have seen.
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showt...893#post172893
Yet our City Council, flush from a huge budget surplus last year, is saying that Occupy is supposed to fund a significant --and popularly supported improvement for our public park, one costing perhaps one-fiftieth the fire station expansion, themselves? This does not feel right to me.