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22 <br />launch a.nd that end of it, we do not even know on the Park Board what's <br />going to happen But the rest of the Plan, we've spent time, talked to <br />people in different parts of the City, a.ll of us represent different parts. <br />And our answers have been pretty much what you see on the Plan and what~~o~~~~~ <br />}~~~~g{ w've heard from people that they would like to see in it. I'd like to <br />recommend that that we approve it as a Long Lake Regional Park with what's <br />going into it and I think this takes up other people's ~.hought throughout the <br />City , not just one area that you`ve heard from. <br />JS Is there further comment? Yes. <br />Ernie Gustafson, I live at 225 County Road I, not in New Brighton, but in <br />Moundsview. Now if you're talking about Regional Park, if you`re talking <br />about any other extravagant use of this parkland then you're also talking <br />about taxes that come from not just N B a.nd ta:t payers in N B you're talking <br />about taxpayers all over Ramsey Cty. And maybe from the Metropolitan Gov't <br />You're talking about getting # 3 million $ from the I~Ietrop govt to finance <br />this here, that makes it become a regional, so I have a_ right to talk in, a.s <br />just myself but ~~ sorta represent someone out side NB. Now I've been <br />wondring if you're gonna talk aabout, I think, T don't remember what it was <br />that you paid for this piece of ground in the first place from Joe Hipp <br />but I, a.s I remember, is 3,~ years ago and it wa.s in the neighborhood of <br />1 million or 12 million dollars. you paid for that. Now you're talking about <br />getting 3 million from the Metropolitan Council and that isn't come outa the <br />Pacific ocean or the Atlantic Ocean or from the sky that comes from everybody's <br />pocket books. We're already hit with high taxes and snore and more and more <br />from all this liberalism. This sounds like highly liberalism that you're <br />talkin here. I'm a, a , a, a. conservative. I just don't go along with all <br />this here high cost of liberalism a,nd it looks to me like what we're ordering <br />here is we're trying to buy a. cadilla.c when probably all we can afford from <br />what our taxes are already is a. bicycle. <br />Laughter, applause. <br />Another comment I would like to make.is that I was wondering how many extra <br />police you'd have to hire in New Brighton here to police this thisng. Gentleman <br />here said that they've spent $2000 on Joe Hipp's house to try to maintain it <br />and guard it from the vanda.lisms ~~~,~~~~~~ but in just a short weeks the <br />vandalists was in there and tore it apart with crow bars. If we put more, the <br />morecostly buildings, the more police you're gonna have to have to keep <br />these vandalists out from tearing the place apart again. Xou've already <br />had the experience in N B because they've already been in other parks of <br />yours and vandalized ah there's no end to it. You're gonna have 10 times <br />the trouble here in this park unless you hire probably double, triple, quadriple <br />your police force. <br />Applause <br />J~ I guess with regard to that I just might state that the City police a.re <br />already patroling the area, and in fact do go back in there regularly. There <br />would of course, I think, be a need for increased patroling but Ramsey County <br />also has a. Park patrol which would be assisting in that area. Yes Roger. <br />RW: Mr. Mayor, I don't think I need to get up in front of the microphone. I <br />think everybody can hear me. In regard to the n~xmber-ef- mem~ier of the Park <br />Board who just spoke saying that they took into consideration all of the people <br />in the City of New Brighton, in putting this program together, I guess I would <br />say to you that everyone knows that, or if they dont, that our Park Board was <br />commended nationally, I think they're a fine group. However, T think that we <br />