The budget, presented at Monday's City Council meeting, would also allow pay raises for city employees but reduce commitment to downtown upgrades and the multi-use Estatoe Trail.
Exactly why is this trail so important? How is it going to help the people living in brevard who work, go to school, and young people hoping to make a home and family in brevard? I dont quite understand that. It seems money spent on downtown and infrastructure would better the quality of life for people, especially the young people who are starting out in life and hope to make, or keep, brevard as their home. Can anyone explain why the trail is so important in the face of such critical times. I hope the townspeople are remembering the young generation and their future here. It should not merely be a place of low pay service jobs for young people until they can get out. Worried.
It doesn’t really sit well with me that 1.74 million dollars was paid for the work on Main Street when those funds could have been applied to the engineering study for infrastructure and the trail. Tree removal and replacement on W Main was a necessary expenditure. But the bump outs and loss of Main Street parking is not. Planters would have been a lot less expensive. Oh, and millions for Blue Zone?
Exactly why is this trail so important? How is it going to help the people living in brevard who work, go to school, and young people hoping to make a home and family in brevard? I dont quite understand that. It seems money spent on downtown and infrastructure would better the quality of life for people, especially the young people who are starting out in life and hope to make, or keep, brevard as their home. Can anyone explain why the trail is so important in the face of such critical times. I hope the townspeople are remembering the young generation and their future here. It should not merely be a place of low pay service jobs for young people until they can get out. Worried.
It doesn’t really sit well with me that 1.74 million dollars was paid for the work on Main Street when those funds could have been applied to the engineering study for infrastructure and the trail. Tree removal and replacement on W Main was a necessary expenditure. But the bump outs and loss of Main Street parking is not. Planters would have been a lot less expensive. Oh, and millions for Blue Zone?