Submitted by R. Neal on Wed, 2006/08/09 - 4:44pm
The 8th District Preservation Association is holding a press conference and rally this Saturday Aug. 12th at 10:00 AM to protest the Knox County Development Corporation's plans for an industrial park on Carter School Road in the Midway/Strawberry Plains/Carter community in East Knox County.
From their press release:
All Knox County Commissioners and School Board members have been invited to join us to get a personal look at the next sinkhole the Development Corporation of Knox County is planning to pour taxpayer dollars into at a time when we can’t afford to build and equip our schools. Knox County can’t pay competitive wages to our schoolteachers, can’t fund a pension plan for our hard-working sheriff’s deputies, and can’t improve the local road infrastructure, partly because our tax dollars are being wasted by the outdated ideas and poor decisions being made by the Development Corporation of Knox County. We want to avoid the kind of Coster Shop/Burnett’s Creek sinkhole disaster that has already cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
Saturday's event will be held at 626 Carter School Road. See the official press release for more information and directions.
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Another leadership failure
There is a petition in the works to rescind the 5 million dollars to the Blount County Business Park and transfer that money to the Hardin Valley High School. Only Knox County Commissioner Scott Moore voted against the money for the Blount County Business Park.
When there is no leadership from the County Mayor only petitions and referendums can stop the machine. Knox County has turned its back on the needs of the children in the Knox County School System. Only with a significant property tax increase can all of the dreams and desires of Mayor Ragsdale be realized. His dream is to be Governor. The question is whether Knox County can afford that dream.
broke and breakable
only petitions and referendums can stop the machine
You got that right; except the charter review committee seems intent on proposing several referenda. It's as though the machine is trying to stop itself. Or start itself. Or start, then stop when the Supreme Court nullifies the charter.
The irony in all this is that if the Supreme Court says the charter is broken, the review committee dissovles, and voters have no chance to fix the charter. If the Supreme Court says the charter is not broken, the review committee's fixes will wind up on the November ballot.
If it's broke we can't fix it; if it's fixed we can break it.
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