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Originally Posted by John Mercier
A doubt a food truck would be willing to sit there all day... pay a lease to the town... or clean the bathrooms.
The concession stand has worked for 50 years. I doubt they will change.
They could bond rather than CRF... and it probably wasn't even on the radar until recently.
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The point is/was, they have indicated they can't use the existing kitchen, so they will need some sort of alternative. A lease or license fee does not have to be prohibitive. The hot dog carts in Wolfeboro and Center Harbor seem to do just fine.
The point of the alternative financing was 50% vote instead of 67%. If it has been in the Capital Improvement Plan, it is not likely relatively new. Those are defined as 6 year plans, approved in the fall prior to developing a town budget in most cases. The CIP includes town school, sometimes a village district so that major projects can be planned in a way that they don't all hit the tax rate at the same time.
P & R Director Greene, quoted in the LDS in an earlier post:
“It’s probably more fiscally responsible to construct a new facility,” Greene said,
noting that the building has been on the town’s capital improvement plan for a few years."
What happened at the hearting on January 11 ?