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Article: Our views: Pay off the debts at Kanawha parks; Selling Sandy Brae Golf Course should solve funding problems
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 5, 2007
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TAXPAYERS subsidize the Kanawha County parks and recreation
department to the tune of $1 million a year. That is a great deal of
money.
While it is impractical to expect the department to operate
without help from taxpayers, parks and recreation officials should
work to reduce that subsidy.
The sale of the Sandy Brae Golf Course could greatly reduce the
size of the subsidy needed to maintain the parks and recreation
system.
Scott Pierson, the owner of Pipe Plus Inc., a St. Albans utility
contracting firm, had the winning bid for Sandy Brae at a recent
auction. Pierson said he will keep it open as a golf course.
Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper suggested the
parks and ...