Dollar Discussion at City Hall

Monday, December 19, 2005 09:55 PM

Prince George City Council has approved spending $32,675,000.00 for general, water and sewer funds for 2006. This is one year of a five year capital spending plan. The remaining four years will be up for discussionin February.

Staff have identified some sources for the money for some of the projects, namely the Community Works Fund (federal) $1,691,000.00 Terasen Reserve $550,000.00 and Community Tourism (provincial) $110,000.00

Approving the money now, will allow the City to go ahead with plans for issuing calls for tender and preparing budgets and schedules in order to be ready for the spring construction season,

The projects include road repair, studies for a dangerous goods route ($60,000.00), the Northern Lights festival ($110,000.00), the Hart-Nechako water system and sewer upgrades. The plan also calls for $250,000.00 for sidewalk rehabilitation and beautification of 5th Avenue to the tune of $750,000.00.
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Council referred some items for further discussion like the planned $200,000.00 for a tree planting project for downtown (60 trees at about $3300.00 per tree) $200,000.00 for assessment and study on Pine Valley Golf Course.
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Posted by: Mike on December 20 2005 1:05 AM

200,000 dollars for a study?? Damn thats good money! Could I do the study? Huh? please, pretty please?

Posted by: gypsy on December 20 2005 12:59 PM

Whoopee!!!
$3300.00 a tree???
Where are these trees coming from???? The moon???
Who gets paid these big bucks for planting them????
For heaven's sake, get someone to donate a few trees- or pay Art Knapps about $60.00 each for some good ones.
Are the people at Prince George City Hall brain dead???
Yeah, Mike, you can apply for that $200,000.00 study.
I would sure back you.
Methinks they may owe some bedfellow a favor, and they will get the job.
I really am sorry!!!!!
Watch and see who gets that study. Interesting?
Well, not very.

Posted by: fedup on December 20 2005 3:41 PM

At a time when everyone is expected to tighten thier belts cut the fat this sure seems like a waste of good money.I can see fixing some roads, water and sewer but the exrtas we don't need right now.Whats with these studies lately we have spent enough on studies in the last while to feed and shelter all the homeless in P.G.

Posted by: gypsy on December 20 2005 4:45 PM

fedup is fed up-and rightly so!!!
Time the residents of this city stood up to be counted when this city hall spends those tax dollars in such a generous manner.
Something is rotten in the system-and how does it get cleaned up???
And to think we are going to get snowed with a "snow tax" next.
Wow, we are a stupid lot!!!

Posted by: duffer on December 20 2005 7:50 PM

If you add up the cost of all the "studies" we have done over the last ten years for whatever, and the money we have given to "special interest groups" that can't make it on their own, like the art gallery and the symphony, we could have built a 4 lane bridge across the Nechako by now and had extra money left over to pay for Murry's homeless shelters.

Posted by: Chester on December 20 2005 8:53 PM

Road Repairs always seem to be a good use of our tax dollars. It's quite embarassing at times. Especially, if you have ever stumbled walking across Victoria Street at 7th Ave while trying to navigate the undulating pavement.

The other one is 15th and Victoria. I know that our freeze / thaw conditions are a challenge, but maybe we need to discover a different type of road surface for our city streets. How about we do another study?

Now, about that tree planting project. I understand that there are a number of people responsible for demolishing our trees on a regular basis. Why don't we just put them back to work and plant all of the trees they destroyed? So, that covers the labour, let's see where we can find the best price for the trees. Chester

Posted by: diplomat on December 21 2005 7:40 PM

Gypsy:"Whoopee!!!
$3300.00 a tree???"

At that price one would think that each tree would have some large enough boulders placed next to the trunk, so that people who think that they can mow down a dozen of trees with a stolen pickup truck have their heads knocked off when the airbag strikes them between the beady eyes?

Posted by: gypsy on December 22 2005 7:51 AM

Yessir, Dip, and they could take some of those boulders from their "Northern Capital" sign, and maybe some of those poles might be in their works yard, and I am sure they have more boulders as they try to drop them off for people to use as barriers, (Ugly barriers).
I have seen the horrendous cost of those trees stated before by the city, as when they got mowed down by a "crazy" they stated a figure. True, it was an unbelievable figure as is the $3300.00 a tree!!!
Where are these trees coming from, and who is planting them, and if it is a contract, get a few bids. I took a closer look after the city gave a price after that first destructive move by the driver of a "stolen" truck, and I never saw a single tree that I could peg at $3300.00. Of course, it is a strong possibility I would not recognize a tree of that value struggling to survive, (poor wispy things).
Anyhow, Dip, they never got the truck, or the driver, or maybe they got the truck, but not the driver!!!! Just not worth the cops time, but if one calculates the value of the mowed trees and the value of the stolen truck-it is pretty damn major-isn't it??? Guess they didn't have a tipster and they solve little on their own.
Oh well, who am I to judge?
But I did get a good laugh just visualizing those beady eyes filled with fear.
Deplorable act-but certainly made you aware boulders would work as a protective device for a $3300.00 tree.
See, you have become a major problem solver for those costly trees, and no study required.
This site surely does have a useful purpose.