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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.

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

I was also not happy about the RTC issue.  Taxpayers ended up paying money to the landlord who kept rents artificially high to shore up Dawson’s?  Ridiculous.  And a waste of money.[/quote]

I assume the city has no control over the rents.  The owner can leave the rents high with vacant spots if he wants.  Is there anything the city can do but subsidize if they want stores in RTC?[/quote]

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