Why are ponds the ONLY priority?
Bruce Wark reports:
" The project will include access roads that will double as hiking trails similar to the ones around the first retention pond south of St. James Street.
The local firm, Beale and Inch, submitted the lowest bid of $5,608,519.62 while the three remaining ones were each above $7 million: Birch Hill Construction of Moncton, $7,322,098.88; Gulf Operators of Saint John, $7,514,371.15 and Dexter Construction of Bedford, N.S., $7,913,150.00 "
Sackville flood control project may run over budget | (warktimes.com)
September 2022 Fireworks... Fall Fair...
photo below by Indie Media Eastcoast
"I am sure you are well aware that the whole area around where the current skate park was put in is just a covered marsh area. Core samples reveal that there is approximately a 22 cm layer of marsh mud, then 17 cm of brown clay, then, 18 cm of peat, and then 14 cm of very elastic type white clay. One cannot possibly build a concrete skate park on this very unstable subsoil.
A concrete skate park would probably cost in the vicinity of one million dollars. The fireworks display next weekend cost $2,000. So it would take around 500 years to offset the skatepark cost, and not 10 years. Where do you get your figures and calculations from anyway? And — can boys be ‘vivacious’ as well as the girls? It is just that I have never been been called vivacious, not even once, no matter how hard I tried in my younger days."
A new venue should be a priority and it doesn't need to cost $1million... it also shouldn't be located at the old skate park site.
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