F the downtown mall project

the short of it - go to http://www.mydowntownmall.com/contactus.htm and let them know their plan to spend 7.5 million on bricks and other b.s. is bogus.

CVille is gonna drop 7.5 million on downtown mall repairs... $200,000 a year would maintain it nicely - equivalent to 38 years...

Last time I went to a city hall meeting it was "well, we'd certainly like to put that $500 crosswalk in at Buford elementary school, to prevent kids from risking traffic accidents.... except we don't have the money right now. You understand, we can't spend the money if we don't have it..."

On the other hand maybe they're full of it...

Tell them to shut up and do as little as possible - they don't do too much well...

Remember the 10 million dollar visitor center - 6 million spent in planning....
3rd Street - one year to brick one block...
the $400,000 "free" speech wall...
Court Square - 2 years to renovate 2 blocks... over budget and FUBAR.
And now they're gonna repave and renovate the entire downtown mall in 5 months.

These jokers have already spent close to $1,000,000 planning this. Just picking themselves and having endless meetings and bagels and probably no less than a few gallons of coffee per person. $1,000,000 bucks. That is a lot of crosswalks for a lot of kids. That's one $1,000 laptop for 1,000 kids. That's money these fools have already spent - put the boo in boondoggle ....

http://www.mydowntownmall.com/contactus.htm