"I think enough has been spent on fancy buildings and beautification projects. Now is the time to get the streets fixed and use better planning in doing so. Why is it that whenever a street is repaved, then a few days later someone is digging it up to fix pipes or wires or whatever? This is a huge waste of the taxpayer money. Fix the wires and pipes first and then finish with the repaving. Smart idea.....huh? As for the schools projects.....enough time has been spent on planning;just get around to doing it! If the golfers want a new clubhouse, let them pay with the fees and membership. A large percentage of taxpayers do not play golf or use these facilities. I know what I say will make some people mad....but then let them be mad. Maybe if they would just stop talking and complaining about things and do them, things just might get done. STOP THE TALK AND DO THE WALK....as they say!"

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Walla Walla is not big enough for two high schools -- not even with College Place attached. Two high schools would mean 1000 students per school -- I know people think smaller is better, but that's not always true. A 2000-student high school runs more efficiently and thus gets more for its money than two 1000-student high schools. If you suddenly got 2 or 3 new people in your already full house, would you build another house for them? Of course not! However, it might make sense to build an addition or make other improvements as well as install other procedures to make the house you have work for all of you. That's what Walla Walla needs to do -- make improvements to the existing high school to bring it into the 21st century and help create a reasonable learning environment, and then adopt programs like smaller learning communities to make the bigger high school seem smaller.

And those who say they won't vote for schools, especially those who say it's because they are older and don't have kids in them, need to look up the definition of "community" -- I'm pretty sure it's not "I got mine, you get yours."

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Turnkey operation, no start up costs:

* 6,000 sq. feet of unused greenhouse space in Walla Walla

* Free heating oil for the greenhouses all winter long

* A contract with a local company to purchase ALL of the produce out of the greenhouses.

Email wcsl.02@gmail.com for more information.

Thank you,
Western Coalition for Sustainable Living

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The relationship that a People has with it's Governance is based upon Trust. When then Trust is bent (or broken) then the Citizenry has little willpower to follow the leading of Government. My general opinion of our City Council & WW Port Authority is that they are not thinking about the here and now of it's citizens. Government is conscribed to do that which the people cannot do for themselves. Individuals can't put in roads, or build schools, or keep the water supply clean. That's Government's job. But our City Council is worried about all kinds of issues unrelated to the basics of government. Here's a list (in no particular order):

1. We're arguing about raising taxes $0.10 per $1000 assessed value. Nobody seems to notice that MY TAXES DOUBLED in one year. Why is there no build in limit of 10% per year maximum. Are they trying to bankrupt local families? What are their intentions for the nearly DOUBLE revenue they expect to collect?

2. I heard a Walla Walla official say (paraphrase) that for each Winery there are roughly 100 jobs created (transportation, hotels, restaurants). With over 100 wineries in the area, do you really think that there are 10,000 jobs related to the wine industry? Yet we persist in trying to turn Walla Walla into the Bend of Washington state.

3. The Water Politics are dirty. Triple Creek (and others) do massive earth moving with impunity - local homeowners can't even cut the weeds near their creeks (You got money? You get water.)

4. We were sold Bike Trails with the Myra Bypass. We supported the plan... now they take away our bike trails. Huh?

5. Every study of Social Scientists shows that schools over 1,400 students have more drugs, crime, teen pregnancy. We NEED a 2nd High School. WA-HI is BAD for our kids. Spend the $32M on a SECOND SCHOOL.

6. City Permits are too danged expensive.

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This is all I could find on the city budget on the City of Walla Walla Website. Maybe this will help.

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The corners of 3rd and Chestunt, 4th and Chestnut, and Chase and Chestnut should be 4-way stops. People are parking right up to the corners on Chestnut giving limited sightlines for drivers on the cross-streets. People race up and down Chestnut between 2nd and 9th. There are two schools which have students crossing Chestnut: Garrison Middle School and Paine School (which idiot decided to rename that school? Do they even know who the Paine was it was named after?). We also need at least one swimming pool. When we have a pool for everyone to use, then we can talk about perhaps expanding it to an "Aquatic Center". First things first; why do the Park and Recreation people think the bond measures keep failing? I was born and raised here in Walla Walla. When I was growing up we had Memorial, the Natatorium, Pioneer Park and Jefferson Park pools. Now we have...?

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There's no need to panic folks. The only thing ruining Walla Walla was the booming housing industry. Now that America's wake up call is here, things will start going back to normal in Walla Walla. The people who have brought their money in from Seattle to WW in the past 8 years are not sincere about living in WW, they just want to play and make money.

But those times of false dreams are over.

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Straw poll here: Are Dan Clark and Nancy Ball traitors to the future of Walla Walla, or are they heroes in your eyes?

Abito and Dan Clark are now best buddies? Any opinions on this?

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College Place residents DO pay for their kids to go to Wa Hi...through our taxes! Everything we pay for comes out of our taxes too. Our homes are all appraised the same, we all live in Walla Walla County. Walmart and Home Depot help but they are our only substancial revenue. We're all in the same boat...pay off old bonds first!

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Fix the streets first.
We need a nice pool, not an aquatic center. If an aquatic center is financially viable, private business will build it.
Eliminate overcrowding at Wa-Hi by putting the 9th grade back in Junior High, put the 6th grade back in grade school, and if necessary build another grade school. Grade schools are less expensive to build than high schools. MAINTAIN the school buildings.

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