Now, the Allman Brothers Band used to play for free in Piedmont Park in the late 1960s. If you can get the Allman Brothers Band (seen them lately? They're phenomenal!) to play in this new park, then you've got my support.

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"Every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace."
--Duane Allman

man i sure would like to see mr dunn put as much efford into cutting taxes for porperty owners, and the questions you ask do you think that they might feel you really want it , the park that is , i see it causing more problems then adding to quality of life.
and talking about crown jewels, i have never seen any one put there crown jewels on the nighbors fence and expect them to stay there intact and in good condition,,,,, hey i got an idea cut propert taxes on veterans. (not only if there100% disabled)
i grew up in fay and pushing 50 and i am getting to the point i cant
afford to live here, keep in mind a lot of your residents have had
pay cuts not pay increses, i have not had one in 4 yrs
get to the point you there for cost effectively running the county
and cutting taxes. or else get off the park and let someone else
play this game your in

I'm really growing tired of posters pretending to be stupid, liberal or other people they are not. Quit insulting our intelligence and wasting our time.

really harvey explain who your talking to, as far as poser pretender
or was it just a blanket across the board to everyone that made a comment,

the park idea is stupid,
and where the location is even more stupid

The park is a bad idea all around

The earlier "poser" comment referred to your constant use of mispelled words. It made it appear you were trying to come across as less intelligent than you are. Don't get me wrong were all going to mispell words on here cause noones sitting here with a dictionary in their lap put your prior postings, well, go back and read them. Now your suddenly spelling and using decent grammar.

Get used to it Harvey. 50% of the posters here have multiple handles they use to make their points. I had one and he's gone. If they disappeared there would be nothing to read here. Agree or disagree that's a fact.

Respectfully, The one and only Lion.

*** DISCLAIMER *** Get Real is the original but has no credibility, is mad and upset, and should never be believed per PTC GUY.

To have a discussion with you, but this childish has just gotten out of hand. Rant on.

So your ready to discuss something rather than put out your silly questions. The childishness started with your posting tactics. Now let's play.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Fayette County can't afford to pick up school children less than a quarter mile from the safety of their home but they can sink TEN MILLION DOLLARS into another Piedmont Park. Such nastiness.

GREG-SPEAK

Sticker shock occurred at Stonewall when Greg realized that the long promised North Fayette park will cost a whopping $10 million dollars. Clinging to the bare positive attribute of protective land planning, it looks like Greg may have blown his last life line. With this park, maybe the Commission should pay for SWAT training for Clayton and Fulton deputies, too, given the existing crime increases at The Pavillion.

Here are samples from this meeting of Greg-Speak— saying one thing and meaning another:

******* “We may have to take a longer time to develop that park,” Dunn said.

TRANSLATION: “Ah, crap....To fund this one we will have to soak the taxpayers over a longer term.”

Explanation: Huge increase in price doesn’t matter to Greg the career bureaucrat, and certainly he can’t say “no” to North Fayette after he and State Rep. Elmer Fudd could not deliver district voting. So, what he really means is he will have to phase it in. Kind of like the Commissioners strategy on annual tax assessments rather than the cheaper method of every three years as permitted by state law----- put the frog in the pot and slowly turn the heat up. After a few years, we get fully soaked and boiled.

******* ““This will be one of our crown jewels,” said Commission Chairman Greg Dunn.

TRANSLATION: “It will be worth it— please believe me— I mean it— I know we have egg on our face.”

Explanation: Now that Greg has thoroughly given up his check book to North Fayette, he has to some how hope like hell he can mollify everyone else in the county after the county has been nickel and diming every one from Brooks to Tyrone.

******* “We were told it was going to be $2.5 million. How did it quadruple in price?” demanded Chairman Greg Dunn.

TRANSLATION: “ I know that the same people that did cost estimating for this project are the same people that keep tabs on our legal fees/ county attorney budget but you guys are about as attentive as the Sewage Plant operator in PTC.”

Explanation: Greg doesn’t mind pissing it away. Its just with exponential increases like this one, he can’t even fool John Thompson that he’s careful with money.

I didn't want to be the first to say this, but, yes, this is likely.

In another post, I say that I could *almost* walk to the location of the park. Heck, it's just a sweatless stroll down Kenwood from here.

I *suppose* that there might be some benefit for me in property values in this area should I decide to sell. Proximity to another "Piedmont Park" is a nice selling point.

But the location really is just a stone's throw from the Clayton line, and such a place will be the first place that Clayton loiterers will think of.
I wouldn't take my grandkids. I wouldn't go at night. I don't play basketball....

Take the 10 mil and put it into the schools. Better: Don't take the 10 mil at all.

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"Every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace."
--Duane Allman