{"id":183,"date":"2012-04-17T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=183"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:50:33","slug":"more-costly-politicrat-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"More costly politicrat “Visions”!"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hold your horses!  <\/span><\/p>\n

Front page story in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Times Record 4\/17\/12 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Developers take stand on Sports Complex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

Two quotes from Senator Jake Files serve as a lead-in to this piece.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jake Files & Lee Webb say they want to build THEIR complex at Chaffee Crossing, not the Riverfront\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We (Files & Webb) respectfully ask the Board to move with haste in allowing us to proceed at Chaffee Crossing with the development of the River Valley Sports Complex.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Board has been remiss in detailing the genesis and the activities which have led to Files & Webb being the owners of the Sports Complex. <\/p>\n

    This appears to be another backroom insider deal.  <\/span>If it is THEIR complex, they pay the $1.6 million, not the taxpayers.   <\/span>We certainly know that is not going to happen; therefore, let the citizens be made aware of finite details about this rush to judgment. <\/p>\n

    Many of these questions were posed yesterday and so far, no response.<\/p>\n

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    1. How did Files & Webb come to be the progenitors of this curious project?<\/li>\n
    2. If allowed to proceed, who owns the complex?<\/li>\n
    3. As a 501 c3 complex, who will be the CEO and how many accompanied full time positions and what will be the salaries?<\/li>\n
    4. Will the salaried positions be city employees?<\/li>\n
    5. What is the salary to be for the CEO?<\/li>\n
    6. Where does the funding come from for maintenance, insurance, bonding, etc.?<\/li>\n
    7. It is estimated there will be a cash outlay of $1.6 million to construct the softball fields; therefore, what are the accounting procedures and who will oversee the expenditures?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The city government of Fort Smith is in the process of raping citizen taxpayers.  <\/span>As an example, I allude to the following \u00e2\u20ac\u0153visions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d being offered by bureaucrats, politicians, and opportunists.  <\/span>Incidentally, Senator Files has stated that the softball fields are his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vision\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and I will take this opportunity to state that Sen. Files business experience has not been exemplary.  <\/span><\/p>\n

      Here are some of the recent \u00e2\u20ac\u0153visions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n

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      1. The Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Museum.  Politicians & bureaucrats will be out hustling funds for the next 2 weeks for this ridiculous colossus ($50 million, 50,000 sq. ft\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6who pays & who maintains?).  Want to know more about this colossus, log on to arkansasfreedom.net <\/a> <\/li>\n
      2. The Water Park\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.projected to lose at least $150,000 per year, while expanding city & county government with more dead weight.<\/li>\n
      3. Walking trails to nowhere.  This and other recreational items are demanded by the U.N.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Agenda 21\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.stack & pack \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem and control citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 movement.  Is the city of Fort Smith a member of Agenda 21?<\/li>\n
      4. UAFS Chancellor Paul Beran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Entrepreneural School\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/li>\n
      5. Chancellor Paul Beran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s downtown Mallalieu Academy of Excellence for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153at risk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d kids.<\/li>\n
      6. Chancellor Paul Beran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s takeover of the 2nd Street Live venue downtown which its existence is very curious replete with self-serving tentacles.  If Beran and UAFS take over the $2.2 million barn, citizen taxpayers will have paid for this entity twice.  For details see arkansasfreedom.net<\/a> <\/li>\n
      7. Beran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s projections wanting UAFS dormitories downtown. <\/li>\n
      8. Continuation of the failed Convention Center and its highly paid staff.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Our wonderful little city of Fort Smith is in a power-dive to economic destruction. Shelve your dysfunctional \u00e2\u20ac\u0153visions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and institute searches for small to medium sized businesses that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be bribed with taxpayer money to come here.<\/p>\n

        Directors, if you are insistent on building 8 softball fields, build them in the place that Judge Ben Geren intended\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit is the perfect place and it seems everyone except government officials understands that.<\/p>\n

        Joe McCutchen<\/p>\n

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        Hold your horses!  Front page story in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Times Record 4\/17\/12 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Developers take stand on Sports Complex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Two quotes from Senator Jake Files serve as a lead-in to this piece.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jake Files & Lee Webb say they want to build THEIR complex at Chaffee Crossing, not the Riverfront\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We (Files & Webb) respectfully ask the … Continue reading More costly politicrat “Visions”!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agenda-21","category-city-government-offenses","category-city-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}