WRRB/Telegram District City Council Forum 10/18
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This forum is for all district council candidates; all candidates are here
today. Format: 14 total questions, 4 questions across districts (for all
candida...
6 months ago
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So I was clicking around last night as there was nothing good on TV. Unintentionally I click on CH 3and there was Gary Rosen with Q and a couple of other guys talking the Worc poiltical scene.
Topic is Pilot Payments and as Bill would say: "Q NAILS IT". Q cites the fact that Clark Univ will remove tax paying real estate from the city tax rolls as part of this Pilot plan. Problem is he doesnt really get the ball over the goal line. He fails to mention that it's 156,000 in lost tax revenue to the city. He should read this blog more often and would know that :).
He also mentions the city giving up a stretch of Downing St to Clark. Now, for one time, I am liking Q and his comments even more!!!!!.
This Downing St closure is evidently a done deal and no one is screaming about lack of neighborhood input into this closing. This is city hall running rough shod over the hood. Where Is CC Haller and the neighbors who will be affected by this closing? Gary Rosen mistakenly poo poo's it by saying Clark is the only abutter to the section of street being closed.
I dont know where Gary Lives (west side?) but if someone closed down the mid section of his street or a street he traverses everyday w/no input from the neighborhood, I am certain some on the west side would be up in arms.
IMO, this section of Downing st s/b leased to Clark Univ at fair market value.
Bill, dont duck this question on me...!!!!!! you're in Real estate. If you owned that stretch of roadway what would you either land lease it for or possibly sell it for outright for?
After one factors the true value to Clark of this road closing, the net cash to the city is, IMO somewhere in vicitnty of about $60,000 a year and a goodly portion of that is to be allocted to "sprucing up" Clark and it's immediate environs.
WPI also took the city to the cleaners on their pilot payment deal as much of the money that WPI pays to city will go toward maintang /upgrading the park opposite thier campus on Salisbury st.
Prediction: Look for a similar and probably worse fleecing of the city by Holy Cross.
All this said, FWIW I am opposed to Pilot payments, but the city is being underhanded and engaging in a form of subterfuge when they tout this Pilot deal such of Clarks as $262,000 annually to the city for 20 years. This is a crock!
Then there is MCPH's pilot deal and w/in a year of their pilot deal they move 100's of thousand of city tax revenue to tax exempt status (Crown Plaza). Priceless.
On another note, where is the 21 Gun Club salute/ceremony for all the deceased DPW workers in the past year?
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