From: Rick Short <rick_clt@yahoo.com>
To: "townboard@townofdavidson.org" <townboard@townofdavidson.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 6:51 AM
Subject: Questions for tonight's chat...
Members of the Board and Staff,
Do you
think answers will be available to the below at tonight's chat? In light of the
good news from MiC I'm hopeful some of these can now be answered before you
decide to go forward. In my opinion, these are questions the Board should answer
for the public before voting on the CIP.
Without answers to these it is very difficult for citizens to have the necessary
parameters to judge the impact of the CIP
decision.
1.
How much debt is Davidson willing to owe Mooresville as part of this spending
plan? What is the expected debt for the current fiscal year and is this based on
the new 30% ownership level?
2. What are the growth projections and
timelines provided and supported by
Mi-Connection management which will result in lower annual subsidies from
Davidson? Based on the MiC
presentation last week, these should be available.
3. Based on the
combined proposed spending and the debt payoff to Mooresville, when can Davidson
citizens possibly expect to see any lowering of tax rates and/or fees which have
been kept artificially high due to the years of Mi-Connection subsidies? If the
answer is “never” or “we don’t know”, that’s fine. However, the public has
expected all along that some relief would be coming when the subsidies were
lowered.
4.
What is the total cost of the proposed new personnel extrapolated out for
the life of this spending plan? Specifically, I’m interested in
the plans to move from a level C to level B service for Public Works and the
costs to operate the proposed new fire station.
5.
If the Red Line goes forward, will the Board commit to requiring the Red
Line pay for whatever costs are not covered by the federal grant for the
proposed Beaty St corridor project within
the CIP? If not, why
not? The Red Line project plans published to date indicate roughly
$1.3 million for this same corridor. Not requiring this payment as
a precondition for Town approval of the Red Line will effectively be leaving a
portion of this money on the table.
I've
asked some of these questions over the past few weeks, but the answers were not
certain. I'm hoping they can be made public before you vote.
Thanks,
Rick
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