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Well there's only 3 people on the council + mayor now and since one of the current council members is running for mayor, only two people on the current council are running again.  Since they didn't ask any question about taxes there's really no way to tell their opinion on raising taxes.  The only thing I saw that indicated people would have to raise taxes were the [b]Rockville Forward slate that wanted to turn the Redgate Golf Course into an "outdoor amphitheater".  That won't be free.[/b][/quote]
That's a good point, and I'd like to understand how they plan on financing that project.

I was not happy about using tax dollars to bring back a failing business in Town Center. It saw declining sales, and this was good money chasing after bad.  The owner was supposed to secure funding from the private sector but failed to do so probably because no bank would loan a failing venture. There's been no disclosure about revenue and sales; the contract for the city was also not made public even though it uses tax dollars, and they denied a request for the contract to be made public.

[b]Which one of the council members voted in favor of that?[/b] [/quote]

[b]I believe they all voted for it. 
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Why would you necessarily need to raise taxes to build an outdoor amphitheater, vs say, making a budgeting decision to spend money on that vs. something else? Also, who knows how well thought out some of the Redgate ideas were, vs. just tossing out some stuff that sounds like it would be nice to have.

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Then I won't be voting for any of them.[/quote]

Sounds like you can throw your ballot away.[/quote]
Why?  Would everyone have voted for it?  I wouldn't vote for the one who supported the bailout of the failing business. [/quote]

Both candidates for Mayor voted for it. Like it or not, vitality of Town Center is a pretty important issue and most don't want to see it fail.[/quote]

Evidently the pp’s number one priority is city taxes which are already low and haven’t gone up in a long time.  She should take her family and move out of the city to save those taxes.  Or better yet, move to West Virginia where she would feel more at home.[/quote]

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