Yet...
A couple days ago I walked across the Penn Avenue bridge over Minnehaha Creek. This bridge has been undergoing rennovation and contruction for the past couple months. It appeared to be nearing completion, as they were finishing building nice retaining-wall style stone walls along the creek on all 4 shore lines, upstream and downstream, left and right bank. But this time when I looked down on the west side, I saw that they had ripped out the 20 to 30 foot long, 8 foot high (last I saw it, and it was not done) wall they had just built, What the devil? They just threw away $5,000, $10,000, probably more, worth of work. It took more than a week or two of labor with cranes, backhoes, forklifts, stone masons and what-not to build that wall. The other 3 are still there.
Mistake? Changes of plans? Either way, a lot of money down the drain.
Today we got a notice in the mail from the Park Board that they have money to rennovate Armatage Park. While they are asking for area resident input, it sounds like their priorities are sprucing up the half a dozen softball fields there. We had no money to keep lifeguards at the beaches in the parks the last couple weeks of summer, but we can improve existing ball fields (of which there is no shortage in this city)?
I'm perplexed as to how we can afford things like these.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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