[Mpls] Clic report on some funding ..Libraries verus bike trails

[Allen]

For sources of funding for the trail system, I would suggest to start with
trimming the city council back to a reasonable number, 7.  This would have
several other advantages better left for another conversation. Also, we seem
to have a civil rights department that seems to receive 2 to 3 times the
funding that other CR dept's in other comparable cities receive.  Between
those two we'd have another $2+ million to make use of.  

Or we could enact a city fuel tax to help pay for city streets and trails.

Allen Graetz
Lowry Hill


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Subject: RE: [Mpls] Clic report on some funding ..Libraries verus bike
trails

The city's investment is highly leveraged. 
There are however growing concerns about how we will absorb the ongoing 
maintenance and capital costs of the bikeway system we are developing, but 
that is little different then our concerns for a library sytem that is 
committed to keeping all libraries open when they don't have the funding to 
keep the doors open once the facilites are improved.