The first sentence of Idaho Code on the purpose of a recreation district: "Providing adequate recreation facilities for public use.."
In order for an expenditure of your tax dollars, also known as public funds, to be legal, it must provide a "public benefit, use, or purpose". Idaho Law makes it legal for Recreation Districts to collect a tax, in order for that tax to be expended on "Providing adequate recreation facilities for public use", and further clarifies with the statement that recreation facilities "enhance the quality of life and materially assist(s) in the correction of many social ills, such as delinquency, crime, excessive use of alcohol, drug abuse, and discrimination."
In other words, if you are going to forfeit your hard-earned tax dollars to the recreation district, well, then, at least, you will be provided with "adequate recreation facilities for public use", right? And you ought to be getting some material assistance in reducing many social ills, right? You agreed to be taxed, in exchange for receiving the public benefit of recreation- and even if you didn't directly participate in the recreation provided, your quality of life is enhanced because the recreation you pay for reduces the many social ills of your fellow citizens, right?
Nope. Not in this case.
Not so much as a soccer ball.
Nine years of nothing.
Well, then what do we have?
An empty field of weeds, mud and garbage.
An old warehouse office-to be used only for the administration of the district-open only four hours per day, three days per week- adorned, of course, with that inspirational photo and bookmarks with tassels.
That's all, folks. That's what is provided.
Nine years and counting. No adequate recreation facilities. No reduction in juvenile delinquency.
That can't be legal, can it?
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I really don't really understand why the WECRD has a Tech Support person for their computers and also a Web Master on the payroll to update their site and I guess they don't give the information to the WEB Master to update anything, just look at their site and it still has the Nov and Dec meetings were canceled and there is support to be a meeting coming up this week but nothing about that on the site, if those morons are going to have a over $3000 site at taxpayers expense then get it updated and keep it up or do away with it.
ReplyDeleteNo it can't be legal. You're not even mentioning the numerous violations of open meeting law. The donations to functions and organizations that are not in the codes definitions. The lack of due diligence with the peoples money. These three should be criminally liable for things that they are doing and have done.
ReplyDeleteHow about our local ECPA who chooses to do nothing? How about the AG who chooses to do nothing?
ReplyDeleteThat is why Mollie, Marsha and Jana do what they do. There is NO regulation.
WECRD Board Meeting on the 27th of January at 7:00 p.m.
The only way to deal with this is to get your complaints on the record. In other words attend their meetings.