At last night's Northampton County Council meeting, Executive Lamont McClure advised the governing body that the county has sold $32 million in tax-exempt bonds for the construction of a new parking deck. He added that because of its favorable bond rating, it was able to sell them at a lower interest rate than was originally estimated. This means the county will save $5 million in bond payments.
He indicated that engineers have already embarked on taking core samples to see how far they can go before having to move bedrock. He is pressing "full speed ahead" because "I don't want to leave the next executive and the next county council in a position where they're not prepared to move forward when they're ready to move forward. Once you shut that garage down, there'll be a lot of unhappy people, and you'll want to get that thing knocked down and put up as fast as you possibly can."
8 comments:
Confused. Was it 32 or 35?
knock down and put up as fast as you can - no mention of quality or safety.
We got to do this quickly to overshadow the gracedale fiasco
Typical democratic move telling us we saving mopney as spend big time.
32
Give me a break. Quality and safety are givens. But no matter who the next exec is, whether it is Tom or Tara, it is going to be in their interest to get it done as quickly as possible bc the public and employees are going to be inconvenienced. It might be a good time to review why so many people have reserved parking. It makes sense for people whose job requires them to go places routinely, but that is where it should end.
And if the dumbasses in county government and the Council acted when they should have, the new garage would be up by now.
you are right the new garage and the new building, that they now have the nerve to ask in the meting if if would be cheaper to build them togther as if that was not discussed 12 times already, they are up for re-election, please say no to all of them especially Lori Heffer, John Brownstain, they do not belong in government
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