“Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.” I wonder if this saying would apply to a proposed wakeboard cable operation in Monroe. Tuesday, the Monroe City Council voted 5-2 to enter into a development agreement with H30 to consider building a wakeboard park on Lake Tye.
Tony Balk, one of the dissenting votes, did not want to enter into a development agreement due to the fact that H30 hadn’t yet delivered an acceptable business plan and the errors in the existing proposal were either glossed over or revised on the fly to suit the presentation. The other dissenting vote came from Patsy Cudaback, who made clear that a development agreement implied some sort of city obligation to H30, and that she was not prepared to move forward under such an agreement. While the terms of what the development agreement constitutes are still somewhat nebulous to me, I do believe this vote is more than just taking an inquiry to the next step as the pro-voting members suggested.
I applaud Tony Balk’s and Patsy Cudaback’s dissenting votes as the haste and incomplete details in this proposal requires much more work be done before it should even be presented to the City Council.
When I moved to Monroe in 1996, I was required to pay extra taxes for the creation of a community park. Monroe resident taxes paid for this park, and this public park should be retained for the community’s use.
At the council meeting, the overwhelming support for the park came from outside our community. There were a couple of Monroe residents in favor of the project, but the overwhelming Monroe community voice that was present wants to preserve Lake Tye as is.
Eric DeBelly
Monroe
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