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Going To Pot As a fiscal conservative I will admit to questioning nonessential city expenditures. That said, an event in Mission Viejo is being eliminated this year for budgetary reasons. I refer to our Readers Festival, which has been held at the Norman P Murray Senior and Community Center for the past four years. Promoting prior years’ events, it was advertised with the slogan "brings books to life." However, we have staff with misguided plans for our city, which any visitor can easily observe by simply driving north of La Paz Rd on Marguerite Parkway. Huge metal pots are in the median. At this one location, I just took photos of three huge metal pots measuring 80 inches in diameter which when added to other locations collectively cost taxpayers more than the discontinued event that brings families to the center to meet famous authors. As an example of the Festival, the You Tube link below includes an interview with author Linda Evans from 2011. Suggestion. We recently remodeled a room in the library for $475,000. Perhaps as the Readers Festival relates to reading and we have numerous authors presenting each year, maybe the library can fund this activity. As to government waste in Mission Viejo I need to point out that it takes some effort to scan the Check Registers or submit Public Record requests to discover how much money has been wasted on these pots that would not include the associated maintenance costs for any plants that they contain. It's all in setting priorities. We have a senior staff member who needs to be reeled in. |
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