Portland City Hall Outrage of the Week
Word from close-in southeast Portland is that the award-winning-high-satisfaction-yada-yada Parks Bureau wants to close Buckman Pool to save money. After all the controversy when the bureaucrats tried to do that in 2005, you would think they'd stop using that neighborhood, and that pool in particular, as a punching bag. Buckman always gets the shaft from City Hall -- always.
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Comments (11)
I think that neighborhood's next on the list to get turned into condos anyways. They'll like that even less.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | December 7, 2011 1:42 PM
Ah...good.
Bad news perpetrated upon the People's Democratic Republic of Buckman will energize the minions of the Kremlin to mobilize against the fascist powers.
They tried that in the late 1970s, too.
Heh...
(If they want to save money on park properties, they should start maintaining them, stop promoting 'legacy projects' and acting as the landscapers for the condo bunker builders.)
Posted by godfry | December 7, 2011 2:06 PM
Didn't that pool just undergo a massive restoration due to underground leakage?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | December 7, 2011 2:12 PM
Gotta pay those retirement benefits so the Parks Bureau retirees can keep up their payments at the Mirabella.
Posted by Allan L. | December 7, 2011 2:28 PM
As someone who has been involved in public budgets, and works at the City, I could find a half a dozen co-workers in different bureaus, take over the room at the Lucky Lab for an afternoon, and easily come up with the 4-6-8% budget cuts Sammy boy wants. Problem is, we would cut his staff, and many of the pet projects this blog has justifiably railed against. Just sayin' . . .
Posted by umpire | December 7, 2011 3:40 PM
Close community centers and pools? When we could just cut out the mayor's position along with all his staff, and then trim the rest of city hall's salaries enough to hire a city manager? What are they thinking?
Posted by gaye harris | December 7, 2011 5:15 PM
Grrrrrrrr!
Posted by Mojo | December 7, 2011 5:33 PM
Ahhh, you folks may not be looking at the bigger poicture.
Our fearless Parks folks desperately want a $ 2000 million bond issue for doing deferred maintenance and to build new baubles which they won't keep up. The idea is to go to the voters in the November 12 election. Parks is very worried about what happened in the PPS bond election, and wants to avoid a similar result.
Parks going to war against pools and rec centers now is the opening shot in the bureaucrats efforts to manipulate the electorate into providing a new pot of gold for the pet projects at Parks.
Remember, "Its for the children."
Posted by Nonny Mouse | December 7, 2011 6:20 PM
Pfft, they have to close it before they clear the land for mega-condo's
Posted by tankfixer | December 7, 2011 6:38 PM
Once again, City Hall is just pulling a crude variation of the old National Lampoon cover gag: "Buy this magazine, or we'll shoot this dog -- for the children."
Posted by Mojo | December 8, 2011 12:21 AM
It's probably naive of me to think the local media would be asking the PR staff at the public employees union where they stand on these issues.
Posted by David E Gilmore | December 8, 2011 6:30 AM