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Originally Posted by Descant
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 ?
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You missed the point that the owner of the food truck/hot dog cart, is not going to want to clean and restock the bathroom.
I would bet that getting 67% of the vote will not really be that hard once the details are worked out. Doing a smaller sum at 50% vote every budget cycle would have been easier... but that is really no longer an option.
If the toilets fail; the beach would need to be shutdown. If they go without the revenue part of the building, they will still need to focus some resources on the beach/bath house.
They just aren't likely to change a format that they have used for 50 years because the building needs a rehab.