Comments on: Canyon Fails Miserably On Jail Bond Vote

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:17:00 +0000

Anyone else find it ironic that BFD is concerned that the county is going to “boot them out”??? Despite assurances to the contrary?

Kinda like they did to the County several years ago with the EMS station….

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:27:37 +0000

What needs to be done to get the majority vote for the fire station is to do what Eagle did a few years ago. The fire dept. had the ballots for the bond at an existing fire station. When citizens went to their usual place to vote the ballots used didn’t have the fire station vote, just the other people and issues being voted. No signs indicated that the fire department vote was elsewhere. While the general election had about 3000 people voting, the bond ballot had less than three hundred, apparently only friends and relatives were let in on this little scheme and so that issue had more than a 2/3 majority. I could be wrong but I think the station was built in the neighborhood of an infamous ex-city council member. What a system.

By: GV observer

GV observer — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:37:18 +0000

Donna – you’re 100% correct. There are three initiatives on the ballot this fall to allow Idaho government entities to go into debt without our vote. We all need to get the message out to vote NO on these three initiatives. With cities like Boise spending mega dollars of our money to get the yes vote, we need a grass roots NO vote.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:53:42 +0000

Thank heaven that the law still requires a vote on this stuff. I am so glad we got to vote.

If you let the cities et all simply go into debt without a vote they would have already spent a ton of money and raised our taxes.

Please do not let cities et all go into debt without a 66% voter approval….please require a vote. It is the only way to protect us from massive amounts of spending and increased taxes.

By: Steve Edgar

Steve Edgar — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:10:25 +0000

JIMV-well put, simply stated and true. You grasp the pulse of
THE PEOPLE. We only want government to do the same as we all have – tighten up on expenses, cut the budget and live with less.

By: JIMV

JIMV — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:58:17 +0000

I do not understand why government is having so much trouble with these tax increase schemes…Folk are seeing tough times and their home values fall and the last thing they want is to pay government more money.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:08:32 +0000

A more basic question is: Why do we put so many people in jail in the first place. There are a number of alternatives to jail time and they need to be used to the maximum extent possible before we do anymore brick and mortar jails.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:47:13 +0000

How many years until the multi-million $$ jail would have been ready? The county leaders are all acting as if their Christmas gift did not arrive, and now they just don’t know what to do!! When in fact they do. They can do the same thing they were going to do while they waited for the new jail to be built. But instead they’re going to let the criminal element run wild for a while to punish the citizen for disapointing them. It’s a fact that it would have been some time before the new jail was ready and they certainly have a plan in place for that wait time. It’s not at all clear to me that a new jail is cheaper then using other available space outside the county.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:21:32 +0000

Intellectually dishonest politicians need to be voted out of office. They think they can make money appear from out of nothing. I we ask for a little bit the rest will surely appear..

Be honest with people and quit low-balling public works projects. Creating these points of no return are just plain bad public policy.

By: GV observer

GV observer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:49:00 +0000

Seems folks are voting with their pocketbooks also in Garden Valley. The library district passed a $900,000 bond a few years ago to build a new library. The library board finally got around to building the building this year and surprise… they are short $250,000. They floated a levy yesterday for the $250,000. This vote only required a simple majority but less than 35% of the voters supported the levy. Construction on the building will be stopped short of completion until it can be funded.

EDITOR NOTE–GV Observer, that is akin to kidnapping. They are holding the building hostage and will probably have a rough time EVER regaining the confidence lost to ineptitude.