Patty: Won’t happen because most of the town is eyeball deep in the illegal immigration quandary and don’t want to rock the boat. I can’t fathom paying 4+k a year in taxes on this place now when the values could potentially hit the value of what I paid for it when the houses were first built 6 years ago. Prices were still affordable then and we are almost near that point now. If it gets below what I paid for it then I’m going to have to really think long and hard with my mom who is a real estate agent and my brother who is an attorney as to whether or not I am going to just walk away from the house. Not really much point in sticking around in a town where home values are dropping like a rock in deep water and trash, blight, corruption, and cultural shock are all I get for my trouble.

Is that the sound I just heard the assessor for MP {censored} a brick?

I had a wild idea. If all the citizens of Manassas Park marched into governement headquarters asking them to re-assess all your property values based on current sales, it would cause them to faint. Then while they are unconscious decent people could come in to run the government. The decent people should then call the FBI to round up these crooks while they are still in their stupor.

So, when is the next election for the City of Manassas Park? Or did the current powers take away elections?

I agree.

Dobbs would love to tear a sanctuary city like MP a new a$$ on tv for a scandal like this. He dreams about stuff like this. Greg, get your docs and your facts and call Dobbs.

The.

FBI.

Already.

When you work with equipment that you paid for as well as internet service that you pay for, sitting at a desk you paid for in a chair you paid for in a house you’re still paying for then you can post from work and it isn’t a luxury.

If it’s your employer’s equipment, internet connection, desk, chair, and building and they allow you to post from work then I suppose it is a luxury.

When I asked the school board why, they replied that they needed a larger building because of block scheduling. I don’t know if they really misunderstood the question. It seems pretty clear to me–I asked not why the building is the number of square feet that it is, I asked why each square foot costs so much.

Either the school board is a bunch of morons or they think the citizens are.

As for me, I gave up on them. I’ll just sit back and watch the economy in MP implode and hopefully I’ll soon be living in PWC without even having had to move.

The tax monster that is MP is going to run out of food and die.

Fran Kassinger had her concerns about it, but chose to vote to approve it.

As a parent of children in this community, I would love to serve on the school board. But after seeing members of the school board described as “co-conspirators” on this blog for their approval of the new school building - I went to one of the two town hall meetings on the subject and not a single person at the one meeting I attended said anything negative about the price tag (there were concerns about taking it out of the other side of town, but that was the extent of it.) I had heard from a neighbor that the tone of the second was pretty much the same. So how are individual members of the school board labeled as “co-conspirators” to new construction that was discussed in a public forum where the majority of the opinion was for the building? Granted, it was a poor financial decision, but it was one made in public, to some degree by the public, and we all have to live with the result. I don’t recall any screaming about the price tag of that building.

It not the only characterization that I feel Greg has gotten wrong about the leadership of MP, but it is the one that I can recall that makes me most leery of running for office or serving this community in a public fashion. That characterization is untrue, unfair, and damaging. Conspiracy takes place behind closed doors, not in two town hall meetings.

MP Resident, elected and public officials should be subject to scrutiny, not distortions like the one I mention above. If you don’t like the decision that someone has made, that doesn’t make public officials “co-conspirators.” Perhaps short sighted and less than intelligent, but neither are illegal, which is the implication of the term “co-conspirators.” (A side note - even though I don’t have the luxury of posting from work, given time I am perfectly capable of elaborating for myself..)

There is scrutiny and there is abuse and I think that in the example I cited, a line was crossed. I have every confidence that it will be crossed again. And that hurts people - their families, their professional reputations, things I value too much to put myself out there (heck, I think you would have to be crazy to do that now.) I have good ideas regarding fiscal responsibility for the schools and community and quality of life issues like overcrowding, things that could change this community for this better if I ran for the Governing Board or put my name in for the school board. But I won’t. Yes, I would be willing to withstand scrutiny to serve, but not the abuse that gets dished around here.

By the way, I’m one of the “tawdry” people that like to go into Rack N Roll because if you went in sometime, it’s just a nice place to hang out and talk to friends. I wish Dave the best of luck with his lawsuit.

Show me the evidence! — Jerry Maguire