The new Allison Brooke Park at the corner of Allison Ln. and Middle Rd. features a community garden feature for area residents to plant gardens on. A nice feature we think , the only problem is the City charging $25.00 rental fee for a small 4 x 8 plot. The citizens of Jeff have already paid for this land with their tax dollars and now they are required to pay rent to use it. The rental agreement also includes about 50 rules and regulations including the renter being responsible for keeping the insects out....Good luck with that one...Here's a grand idea ...since the City wasted thousands of tax dollars overpaying for what was once a useless swamped property in the flood plain, how about letting the owners (taxpayers) use THEIR LAND for free to plant their gardens, after all it was their hard earned money that payed for it in the first place...
The City has to pay for the city workers that moved dirt from one place to the other for the last year and a half. They must work at least an hour and a half each day.
ReplyDeleteTom Galligan was the one who paid about 4 times what the property was worth. The rumor was to help out his buddy Lynn who owned the property before it was sold to the city.
ReplyDeleteMaybe "rent" is the wrong word here.Isn't the fee based on the cost of providing utilities, particularly water for each garden? The city doesn't own the water or electric utility companies.
ReplyDelete$25 for a whole season doesn't seem bad at all to me.
ReplyDeleteIf the council were to take this "park" into the parks dept. there would be plenty of funding. They are currently resisting due to politics.
ReplyDeleteSeems kind of the same as renting Nachand Fieldhouse for an event?
ReplyDeleteYeah the $25 fee is no biggie really, my point was that they throw money around, payed an exorbitant price for the land and now want to charge.
ReplyDeleteThe park is a big improvement over the eyesore that was there....
Well if the park is an improvement quit complaining and enjoy the upgrade.
DeleteI will enjoy the upgrade Thank you....but I would enjoy it a lot more if I knew our tax dollars hadn't been wasted by a crooked politician taking care of his buddy by paying 4 times what the property was worth....
ReplyDeleteThat's the Clarcksville Co. way. He'll it's only tXpErs money, not real money.
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