The "City Council Brief" article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram could have been called "TRV wants more".
Remember when our new mayor was on the campaign trail, one of the promises was Fort Worth would not spend a dime over the double digit millions (of OUR money) they already promised. So, WHO will pay the $95 million for new facilities? WHY do we need new facilities? Because the current ones are in the way of the Trinity River Vision. WHO owns the land? The Tarrant Regional Water District. WHY? YOU know the answer. WHO wrote the Brief? Bill Hanna, WHO else.
Kathleen Hicks says she is "worried" how the city will pay for it. Isn't she on the TRV board? And NOW she's worried?
Critics have long said the cost of the Trinity River Vision will be more than the $909 million dollars (of tax payer money) the project "leaders" have claimed. The project pushers have called the critics "crazy". Critics have asked the question about the fire and police training academy before. Not so crazy now, is it?
The current site was sold to the Tarrant Regional Water District as part of the Trinity River Project for $4.2 million, and the city bought four 250,000-square-foot warehouses at the Federal Depot in south Fort Worth for $6.4 million.
The city has an eight-year lease on the current site but doesn't have a way to pay for a new facility and could exercise options to stay a year or two longer, said Mark Rauscher of the planning and development department. But Rauscher noted that a new shooting range must be in place by the end of 2013. "At this point we have not identified a full funding plan for the police and fire training center," Rauscher said.
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