Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Saline County Fairplex

The Saline County Quorum Court in a vote of 10-2 to move forward with the special election for the Saline County Fairplex.  Jill Jones is the promoter of the Fairplex and works for the City of Benton Advertising and Promotions division.  She tells me this will bring to the county 300 permanent jobs. She also says she has already gathered the funds to pay for the special election, but she can't tell me who paid $50,000.00.  

I divided the 50 million it will cost to build over 6 years and that comes to $27,777.77 per year per job. But we should factor in the 5% interest it will cost the county to fund that amount and we go in the hole for the first 3 years.

Tom Lish -Justice of the Peace- represents Hot Springs Village in Saline County.  He thinks we need the special election because the voters get confused in the general election about what their yes vote actually says.  In other words folks, he thinks you are too dumb to vote against the measure in the general election.

Since the State has a problem getting the Statutes online, I am still researching this, but I understand every special election has to be paid for by the body that called it.  The question begs to be asked, "Why didn't the county pay for the special election?"  We have 30 days after the election to contest it.

When will the madness end?  We must stop spending money on what we don't have for things we don't need! 

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