Pine Cove Property Owners Association members were treated to the presence of Pete and Suzon Caparelli, Diane Cardinalli and a handful of others [Saturday, Feb. 1]. They presented a computer fly-through of the multi-story Idyllwild Community Center facility and ampitheater. This was phase 1.<\/p>\n
It had a great room entrance, an art gallery, teen center, commercial kitchen\/eating facility, meeting room, very large multi-story deck, ampitheater and control room. They told us it was totally privately funded and that there would be no government oversight.<\/p>\n
The presentation then ended with the bold statement it was now our moment. I felt like I was in a timeshare presentation with no idea how much it was going to cost but that to be part of the in crowd I should step up and do my part.<\/p>\n
I wanted to ask what recreation took place at the facility but instead asked what the construction costs, startup cost and the annual phase 1, 2 and 3 operations\/maintenance cost projections were. They said they didn\u2019t know and that it didn\u2019t matter because the benefactors would cover the cost for 10 years.<\/p>\n
Then Pete said they wanted CSA 36 recreation property tax dollars to run\/maintain the facility but that there could be no government oversight of this property tax money. Hmm.<\/p>\n
Had this been a totally funded private project, taxpayers would have no say other than how the center impacts the community and residents during the planning process; at least that\u2019s what they pushed off on us for the past few years.<\/p>\n
CSA 36 takes in $180,000 in recreation property taxes annually with explicit restrictions on spending the money unless the taxpayers vote otherwise, a highly unlikely proposition.<\/p>\n
You can be certain that I will require government oversight of any property tax money given to a non-membership company to the point of a grand jury.<\/p>\n
Jeff Smith Pine Cove Property Owners Association members were treated to the presence of Pete and Suzon Caparelli, Diane Cardinalli and a handful of others [Saturday, Feb. 1]. They presented a computer fly-through of the multi-story Idyllwild Community Center facility and ampitheater. This was phase 1. It had a great room entrance, an art gallery, teen center, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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