Comments about ‘60% back public-safety bond’

Although it is very much a need they are not using any smarts in where they plan to place the building. Location is more important to the community than the amount of the bond. If city planners were smart they wouldn't face opposition in what they need if it was done the right way. City planners over bond for greedy and uncalled for deception and this is what citizens don't like and the greater detriment for approval.

Hopefully too, there is a time limit and special use conditions on the bond so it does not become a permanent tax. In the Salt Lake laws a major issue is that all bonding goes in to the cities general funds that allows disproportionate use and abuse of the taxes for other projects as the city desires.

Voters should read the bond carefully and if there is no conditional use, accountability, or time limit, vote it down. Just because citizens agree with the need for a new structure does not mean they approve of a permanent tax or misuse of the bond.

I voted NO on the bond because the block near the library is the WRONG location for this.

This building would not require replacement if the city had performed maintenance as needed: repair roof leaks, repair plumbing leaks, maintain elevators, etc. I will not vote for a $125 million building bond because the city failed to maintain the building. I see this as an attempt to scam the voters out of $125 million that could be better spent elsewhere and still leave money to perform the deferred maintenance on this present building, especially with the economic woes that are currently facing the public.

There is no doubt the good men and women working in the current Public Safety building deserve better, no matter how they got there. However, the proposed cost of a new building is too much for the public to carry.

There is so much inexpensive office space available on the market today, why can't an existing building be purchased and fit for less than what it would cost to build a new facility? I believe one could be.

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