Well, Janet “I Never Asked The City For Anything” ‘Crazier’ Crozier is finally seeing her ridiculous dream come true. She has managed to blow about $24,000 to make her private garden club “ADA compliant.”
Nobody asked her to do this, of course. She just has an irrepressible urge in her liberal DNA to waste other people’s money in the most ludicrous fashion. As far as I know, the fake crippled Russian persona I made up is the only “person” who expressed any interest in this ADA idea.
This latest hare-brained scheme brings the TOTAL cost of her garden area to nearly FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND dollars [for a tally, go HERE]. Quite a sum of money for a simple garden. You could probably feed a needy family of four for a couple of years with that.
Where did the $24,000 come from? Well, over $5,000 is from the taxpayers as the City had to extend some sidewalk over to her sand box. Another $12,359 comes from the clearly-insane people who give away money for the LCRA.
Why the LCRA keeps throwing money at this idiot, I cannot fathom. They gave her $4,330 two years ago for a tool shed after all her tools were stolen due to her negligence.
Either she has a cousin working over there or something OR the LCRA is swimming in so much money, they have decided to just set it on fire. Honestly, if the non-profit LCRA has THAT much coin sloshing around their bank accounts, I’d much rather they give a refund to all of us who pay for water and electric through them. Clearly we are paying too much!
[Fun fact: the City of Lampasas pays roughly $600,000 per month to the LCRA for electricity – which the city then marks up and sells to you]
I’m guessing the remainder (about $5,000) of it came from the “fundraiser” they did. I’m sure her lovely daughter Potato Head Fitzharris chipped in a few thousand to make mom happy and to try and buy some goodwill. Maybe make everyone forget she is a far-left Marxist. Or maybe not, since she only gave $31 dollars to the Christmas light fundraiser she herself started.
But that’s not all of it. It occurs to me that a couple years ago, she pitched her garden idea to City council as just a tiny little gardening group. They wanted to use an old volleyball court (City property) over by the swimming pool since it was sitting there unused.
Fair enough. If it wasn’t going to cost the City anything, why not let a few old biddies dig in the dirt and grow a tomato plant or two?
Of course, it swiftly blew out of control. Crazier asked, nay demanded, that the City blow about $11,000 on some water storage tanks – even though the City ALREADY installed water lines for her (for ‘free’) and give her 5,000 gallons of water for ‘free’ every month as well. She has received thousands and thousands of dollars worth of “free” stuff from the City in terms of City workers’ labor.
She put a large, permanent shed on the property, as well. But the latest move is by far the most ridiculous:
Pretty big and PERMANENT changes to CITY property. I don’t recall any of this being discussed during council meetings. Maybe I missed it.
I wonder what would happen if, say, some Frisbee Golf club that used the 580 sports complex decided to start digging holes and filling them with concrete to plant permanent flags in the ground to use? Or if the Rodeo Club decided to start digging holes and filling them with concrete to put up some permanent cross-rail jumps? Oh, and what if those clubs had a fence around their little area that was locked to regular citizens?
To put it a little more bluntly, what happens when Crazier kicks the bucket and the club falls apart in a couple years? I guess we are left with a big chunk of concrete where a volleyball court USED to be. It certainly can’t be used as a volleyball court anymore. I’m wondering who will pay to restore everything back to the way it was?
Ironically, the City recently spent almost $40,000 to REMOVE concrete from their Industrial Park so Martin could get a better deal if he decides to exercise his option to purchase the land.
Paying lots of tax dollars to dig holes here and fill them in over there! Pour concrete here, and remove it over there! Brilliant. Sounds like an FDR make-work, Depression-era wet dream from the 1930s! Comrade Clayton would be proud.