Monday, December 22, 2008

No cost to fremont?

[These are the quotes from various sources]

The A's claim they don't need public money for the stadium. They need to claim this so the project "does not requre" a city wide referendum. They can just get the approval easily from the 5-member city council. Is it really "at no cost to the City of Fremont"? Can they really avoid a city wide referendum?

The A’s claim the entire development will come at no cost from the City of Fremont. I don’t understand how they can make such irresponsible promise as they also seem financially stranded in the current economic downturn. Who will pay the large bill on the infrastructure, road upgrade, maintenance, extra police, etc?

Once the project starts, it will be point of no return, whether you like it or not (sound familiar?). Fremont could be dragged down into deep financial trouble. The A's proposal looks appealing, but I don't think city size of Fremont can sustain such big financial impact. It's better to leave it to big cities. We don't want to see our tax money drain down to help the A's.

The Council Members ask several times the how much “money” we spend so far on this project, and the answer is always "the expected $0”. This is good since we can stop the project now with no money loss from the city. True, the city haven't use "any money" on this project so far. But it has already dragged a large amount of time and resource from the city and local community to go through the meetings and discussion. This is a very big “cost” to the Fremont community.

The costs behind this stadium are extremely, well, costly! Especially with America's economy slowly dying, this is one of the last things we need.

Research suggests that though citizens bear the cost for the building and upkeep of stadiums they do not partake of the profits.

A stadium in Fremont will only be a burden to the tax payers and also allow for more conjestion. Studies have been done showing that stadiums are more a burden than an asset.

2 comments:

  1. WHO PAYS FOR THIS MESS ????

    NOT THE RESTARANTS AT PACIFIC COMMONS !!!

    THEY TAKE HOME PROFIT FROM THE DRINKS THEY SELL TO A's FANS.

    THEY WONT PAY FOR P.D. AND THEY WON'T PAY FOR WEAR AND TEAR ON OUR CITY STREETS AND THEY WON'T PAY FOR OFFICERS PICKING UP SOMEONE ON BART PLATFORM AT CURREN TFREMONT STATION.

    WOLFE WONT PAY FOR THESE THINGS !!! THESE WIL BE PAID FOR BY FREMONT TAXPAYERS.

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  2. Wasserman and Wolfe want you to think that A's will bring a lot of tax revenue to Fremont. That will be true. Wasserman and Wolfe want you to think that A's will bring revenue to Fremont businessess. That will be true.

    Wasermand and Wolfe wont talk about the costs associated with picking up drunks, directing traffic, and resolving the occassional probelm resulting from 20,000 fans staggering onto city streets after a game.

    Look at Oakland around the curren Coliseum.

    Is this what you want your city streets to look like?

    Why doesn't Wolfe and Co fix up their current home ?

    WHy does Wolfe want to find a new home just a few miles south on the freeway ?

    Why doesn't Oakland want to "save" the A's in their city ?


    These questions wont be answered by Wolfe and Wasserman.

    You will pay for the reality of the answers to these questions with your taxes.

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