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King Komments: I'm Not Voting for Waller-Maple Parking Garage Posted on Sunday, February 03 @ 10:21:51 EST by jfbailey

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Councilman William King Komments Filed 02/02/02 10:00 AM:William King's latest commentary on goings-on around White Plains takes city to task on the parking double-deck plan and raises his concerns about spending allocations.

I'm voting against the double-decking of the Waller Maple Parking Lot that's in the Council agenda package for Monday and Tuesday's meetings.

I won't vote for it on Tuesday. I feel $75K is another waste of public funds.

We should be using funds like this toward the astroturfing of Eastview playfield(s).

If we had not spent the $300K pursuing, and ultimately giving up on, the Ian Behar suit, which I voted against twice, and if we turned off some of our streetlights (turning off up to half would have saved us $375K this past year), we would have had enough for the astroturf.

When you waste money, it could actually be used for something else. I am reminded also that the cost overruns on the public works garage were close to $1M, ($1.2MM) weren't they? Where are our priorities - just for more parking garages?

I think also we have an expensive City Hall renovation/expansion project coming to the end of final design soon that will be a stretch for us on top of the $23m we are plunking into a now oversized City Center garage.

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