I deleted or blocked more than 50 anonymous comments because they contained charges or claims that were not backed by a link to an actual source or were just outright slanderous. I also blocked one persistent commenter whose posts were simply a string of insults to others. Otherwise, given the sensitivity of the issues, I let other posts stand. I never had an outright requirement that all posters use their full names. I only said that posts that contained claims that crossed the line would have to be backed by a poster’s full name.

I hope everyone read this blue sky report. You don’t need a degree to run some rough numbers in the pond potential. 1300 bleacher seats? The VT investment of 5 million over 20 years? Look back to council meeting conversations and Lance over time. The debt service and operating costs (probably underestimated) make it appear VT gets a freebie.

I just saw the C’burg mayor stating the same old nonsense. Of course, any venue of attraction will increase meals and lodging revenue. How does that offset the expenses of the white elephant going forward. Earn it here, and burn it there, and lose money.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/254121

I like the part where it says it’s one of the few such fabulous facilities in the entire country. Does that make it a good idea or is it evidence that it’s a really bad idea?

Lance sounds like someone else only this won’t last 50 years and have a happy ending in some history book.

“I would be more optimistic if I could just ignore the facts.” I don’t know who to attribute it to but it stuck in my mind.

Maybe Floyd will experience some annexation and the project could be the biggest wind and solar powered ferris wheel in the country. Hey, I can see Sarah Palin’s house from here.

Happy Monday. Rush over to the the pool and get your membership while they’re hot.

Sure, some reasonable control or laws related to trash, for instance, are a given. However, one local council member said, upon retirement, that, “the most difficult thing I encountered was telling people what they can and can’t do with their land”. One honest councilperson..

Repression of rights, costly hearings, and rumored pay-offs are some of the negatives of zoning. Let freedom ring.

The ‘kiss-up/positive’ quotes from ‘insiders’, such as Councilman Barber and the Chief of police, are ‘no brainers’. After all, why would Barber, for instance, want to ‘tell the truth’ about the Town’s problems…he’s one of the ‘closed-door’ mongers.

The saga, in this case, is simply a sad saga. The only signs of democracy have been the few that, on short notice, attended the single-meeting (minus the Mayor!) of Floyd Council that was apparently an attempt to ‘ice the cake’ for Terpenny.

The posts about the article mostly relegate to water and sewer issues. Important concerns. It seems that concern about any consideration of combining the Town with the County points to the need for a separate article?

If Floyd wants projects that resemble the Aquatics Center (cement pond) project in Christiansburg that was supposed to cost $7 million, but ‘went awry’ to a $10 million COST-OVERRUN (let alone, years late)…that’s $17 million, rather than $7 million (overpriced at that point)….then let the Mayor and ‘his’ Council proceed with ‘the’ Town Manager.

@Karen: ‘…Town should…expand..or dissolve..’..:
Don’t worry, if the ‘done-deal’ (initially made behind ‘closed door’ policy) is finalized, Floyd will most likely expand. That is, if the legacy of the proposed Town Manager proceeds. Just beware of cost-overruns and ruination of the ‘Republic of Floyd’.