Re: Would you vote for a new pool if the referendum were held today? ~ July 12
Letter to the Editor
I would love to see a new pool, but I would have loved it a lot more 10 years ago. The willful inaction and foot dragging was inexcusable and the delay will cost the project (and us) millions. They don’t have blueprints, they don’t have land selected, they don’t have anything for us to actually make an informed decision with. Just years of pointless community meetings and putting post it notes on a board. What a waste of our time and money. What have they been doing for the last 10 years, just ignoring the pool problem until someone mentions it on Facebook?
Our current pool was stupidly constructed from the beginning and frankly anything the PRRD is involved with is usually a mess. It seems like it’s the PRRD that causes all the problems. They can’t seem to get anything accomplished and actively get in the way. I would be much more supportive of a pool facility built by the city and leaving the PRRD out of it. Anyone from outside of town can pay higher admission prices. Our property taxes are far too high as it is and rural residents get all the benefits of FSJ while paying far less in property taxes.
Why didn’t the PRRD and the City leverage BC Hydro to pay for most of it? That should have been the goal all along.
T Brown, Fort St. John
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Your writer should check and find out what percentage of the cost of the current pool are paid by Fort St. John taxpayers. They might be very surprised.