Put up or shut up time..

[johnb]

The Cary Dog Club, a private, for profit entity, wants the city to build them a leash free doggie park. They say it will "pay for itself". Just like Regency did, just like the Tennis Center did, just like, well, you get the picture.

Here's an idea....the city should sell the Buffalo tract to the Cary Dog Club for their leash free doggie park. Since it will supposedly "pay for itself" the Cary Dog Club won't have a problem. They're guaranteed to come out ahead financially. Plus the added benefit of not having to deal with the city council or non-members wanting to slip a cat or a ferret in on the action.

Since there are some number of dog owners in Cary who buy dogs that they can't possibly provide the proper amount of space in which the dog can exercise the Cary Dog Club should do something to help these poor animals with negligent owners. Plus, they can turn a buck doing it. This would be a point where the profit motive comes in to alleviate a degree of neglect and cruelty to animals.

All those people who bought a Great Dane but live in an apartment, rather than throw their burden on the taxpayers of Cary, the Cary Dog Club could provide the means to resolve the problem.

Surely, since the facility will "pay for itself" there won't be a problem now will there?

[Brent]

John, are you actually advocating that private interests take on some amount of financial risk?!? I hereby accuse you of being a practicing capitalist! :lol:

Seriously, ruined Buffaloe tract or not, I have said since the beginning of this dog park fiasco that I would even go so far as to DONATE the land to the Dog Park Club. They can build their fences and drinking fountains and buy the insurance and operate it. I wouldn't object to providing some land, or leasing it for a buck a year or whatever. But the cash subsidy is ridiculous. It seems to me it would have been much easier to have all the Dog Park Club members kick in a couple hundred bucks each and be done with it. They put more effort than that into getting money from Cary.

[johnb]

That's the neat thing Brent, once they get their first subsidy that ain't the end and anyone in the process with a shred of honesty about them will admit as much.

It starts with a fence but the demands for loot from the public treasury will only escalate with time. After all, the council has made a commitment.

Wait, I that sentence was recently used before wasn't it?

[Brent]

Agreed, John. That's why I would, perhaps, go so far as to donate the land or lease it for a pittance. But no more. If the Dog Park gets that, they are responsible for everything else.

[johnb]

A lease, I had not even considered that aspect Brent....two great ideas mash'em together and there is a solution. Let the Cary Dog Club have a long term lease and they're responsible for all insurance, fencing, etc...etc...

An eminently more reasonable solution than the raping and pillaging of the city treasurey the Cary Dog Club now proposes.

They're fiscal jihadiis.

[Brent]

A lease, I had not even considered that aspect Brent....two great ideas mash'em together and there is a solution. Let the Cary Dog Club have a long term lease and they're responsible for all insurance, fencing, etc...etc...

Precisely. Gets their hand out of my pocket (which is welcome on so many levels).

[Wuptdo]

And while folks are focused on the $70K for the Cary Doggie Park, the Cary Swim Club get's $30 million for their water palace. Always watch for the "slight of hand" when dealing the town staff, especially Parks & Rec.

Wuptdo B-)

[Cathy]

And while folks are focused on the $70K for the Cary Doggie Park, the Cary Swim Club get's $30 million for their water palace. Always watch for the "slight of hand" when dealing the town staff, especially Parks & Rec.

Wuptdo B-)

GOOD point!

[johnb]

Wup,

The Aquatics Palace is a done deal. Ernie & his Posse have made a "commitment".

:wink: