Clark County taxpayers buy Mimsi Marsh… wrong on so many levels.

Well, taxpayers…. Aren’t you thrilled about how the Leftist fringe controlling your money is so eager to spend it, while simultaneously costing you hundreds of thousands in lost property tax revenue?

Here’s the tariff.

First, us taxpayers will be out directly $750,000 for yet another unwanted boondoggle.

Next, we’ll be out the hundreds of thousands in property taxes that will NOT be collected… because there’s no one there to collect it FROM.

So, over the next ten years, the folks who have no problem spending OUR money… have shafted us out of, oh… $1.5 million or so. Like we can afford it.

Wonderful.

The vast majority of the Columbia River is not populated directly… nor does it need to be. We have more than adequate access to those of us who actually feel compelled to go down to the River’s edge.

We do not need to spend this kind of money on this kind of purpose… and those spending OUR money ought to reflect on this: If this dirt is so necessary… if it’s so great… then get the money from private sources to buy it.

I want MY tax dollars going to law enforcement… firefighters…. Schools. Not more environmental political correctness and sexy dirt crap.

You'da thought the Taliban City Government of Vancouver would have learned after their idiocy of saddling the local taxpayers with the debt of the Pollard Hilton.



Mimsi Marsh - Council OKs buyout of marsh area from builder

Tuesday, June 21, 2005
By ERIK ROBINSON, Columbian staff writer

A yearlong effort by neighbors and conservationists culminated Monday when the Vancouver City Council unanimously agreed to buy a 7 1/2-acre property above a piece of wildlife habitat.

Developer Doug MacDonald, who had applied to build 28 townhouses on the property near the Evergreen Highway, agreed to sell the property for $750,000. That's about $110,000 less than the city of Vancouver's appraisal. A MacDonald representative said the longtime developer could have sold the property for $1.2 million.

"This is the family giving something back to the citizens," said Woody MacLeod, MacDonald's development director in Vancouver.

Mimsi Marsh feeds into a creek that attracts hundreds of chum salmon each autumn less than a mile east of the Interstate 205 Bridge. The city council's action Monday, to be followed by a decision by Clark County commissioners today, follows a $2 million public/private buyout of a 41/2-acre parcel near the river earlier this year.

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