{"id":7397,"date":"2017-10-10T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:28:30","slug":"were-not-made-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/10\/were-not-made-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re not made of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/news\/summit-county-council-and-summit-land-conservancy-at-odds-over-osguthorpe-farm-purchase-in-the-basin\/\">spat<\/a> between the County Council and Summit Land conservancy over the purchase of the Osguthorpe Farm highlights a problem. Our governments aren\u2019t made of money. Summit County offered to pony up $4 million to help Summit Land Conservancy buy the land, but the land conservancy needs $5.5 million to complete the purchase. The land conservancy rejected the county&#8217;s offer due to a number of conditions that the county apparently made with offer. The fact that the county says they can offer $4 million is surprising in itself.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that we spend millions on Bonanza Flat. We spend millions on the Cline Dahl\u2019s parcel. We may spend millions on the Osguthorpe Farm. Yet, we have to raise property taxes because we can\u2019t cover expenses (like roads). We get that each of those projects (Bonanza Flat, etc) have their merits&#8230; but not when you are broke. It\u2019s like having no money, buying a Tesla, and justifying it because it\u2019s emission free.<\/p>\n<p>Some day, not too far away, these chicken are going to come home to roost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spat between the County Council and Summit Land conservancy over the purchase of the Osguthorpe Farm highlights a problem. Our governments aren\u2019t made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}