Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Whose watching the money?
Over $1.5 million dollars each to repair several exec golf courses?
$1 million dollars to dump stone to stabilize the foundation of the Morse Blvd bridge? $250k for a traffic light on Colony Cottage? Who is getting this money? Why isn't the present grounds company paying to repair the courses they were responsible for? Why isn't Sumter County paying for the Morse Bridge and traffic signal? Please help answer these questions. |
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Oh my……….!
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This is not the place.
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But! Every now and then, there is that ONE who will take the time to fight back. Some have been successful and our community is better thanks to them. Last edited by margaretmattson; 04-05-2024 at 08:41 PM. |
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From districtgov.org -> committies -> Project Wide -> Agendas, the next meeting is Monday morning (4/8) at 8:30 in Seabreeze.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works. Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so. Victor, NY Randallstown, MD Yakima, WA Stevensville, MD Village of Hillsborough |
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I would like to hear more about this. Where and when was this discussed? Do you have a link to the information?
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works. Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so. Victor, NY Randallstown, MD Yakima, WA Stevensville, MD Village of Hillsborough |
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I think they are doing more than dumping stone. |
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The Developer paid the first $100,000 to install the light, the District paid the balance. |
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I believe that light is on District property so neither the State nor County would be involved. Hopefully, the District and County are looking into a similar light near St Catherine. EDIT: I just read the article about a supervisor arguing against the light on Colony Blvd. It turns out his prediction was wrong and the light is helping the situation. I travel through there often and am thankful for that light. Again, I hope they find a way to install one down near Sawgrass.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works. Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so. Victor, NY Randallstown, MD Yakima, WA Stevensville, MD Village of Hillsborough Last edited by Bill14564; 04-06-2024 at 01:58 PM. |
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Glad to see you’re an engineer, NOT, there’s a lot more that goes into stabilizing the island shoreline than just “dumping rock”. The island is CDD property not the county so the CDD/PWAC is responsible for the cost, not the county. There is and never has been anything wrong with the bridge, the issue is island shoreline erosion. The traffic light at Colony is a project from 10 years ago. The horse is dead, stop beating it. All of these projects are competitively bid work, so the money goes to whoever was most responsive and had the best bid. Your obvious insinuation is that the “developer” is getting the money and you would be wrong. The developer owned companies rarely bids on work for the district government or county projects, they have more than enough work in house to keep them busy, they don’t need to chase low bid work. The largest expenditure by the District and CDD governments with the Developer is for IT services and maintaining the tee time system, and even this is a very small percentage of the total budgets. Yes, it was all competitively bid. The county does not do golf cart/multimodal paths and doesn’t fund these project (traffic light) and doesn’t fund work on property they don’t own/have responsibility for (the island resentment - it’s NOT the bridge). Taking a little time to educate one’s self would go a long way in answering your own questions, but then again, finding answers wasn’t the point of your post now was it, it was more about stirring up an issue where one doesn’t exist.
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The track record of those in charge around here speaks (thunders) for itself. And I would far rather have those in charge CONTINUE to be in charge, and doing it their way, than I would the ax-grinders and nitpickers who find fault with them. |
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