September 19, 2011

On February 6, 2008 my opponent voted to spend $300,000 on 5509 and 5511 Main Street, in which one of the buildings we were renting and housed the planning department, and at the same time we began renting 5512 and 5514 Main Street and moved the planning department leaving one of the buildings we just bought vacant.  To make it worse on May 6, 2009 my opponent voted to buy 5512 and 5514 Main Street for $405,000 without an appraisal.  I voted against both.  This was $705,000 of your tax dollars and an absolute waste of your money.

The interesting part of this waste of your money is neither purchase was part of the 2025 Flowery Branch Comprehensive Plan.  These buildings are part of the central business district not the public institutional area.  It is also interesting that my opponent voted on and approved the 2025 Flowery Branch Comprehensive Plan in 2006 as well as was on the steering committee who created the 2025 Flowery Branch Comprehensive Plan.  Who should have known better than my opponent that these buildings and waste of your money were not part of the future of Flowery Branch?  I guess someone should ask her.  I did and she did not have an answer.

I voted against these purchases because they were a waste of your money and should have never been purchased.  As I stated on September 16, 2011, it costs about $100,000 to pave a mile of road and that could have been seven miles of road.

I will ask her if she meets me for a debate, but only time will tell.

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