The Waco Tribune Herald reported yesterday that the funds that will be provided by a recently passed bond package would be used to purchase the Hillcrest Medical Tower. The Tower would eventually become a "new and improved" HQ for the Waco Police Department. The sales pitch thrown at the voters by both the City and its bond proponents was that the City needed a new HQ, and did not have room for all the various police departments. In addition, the new building (voters were told) would be far more efficient because all of the police-persons could be under one roof, and work together on their various crime-fighting activities.
Yesterday's article, though, made clear that
- the City could not really afford to retrofit the building with the money from the bond package (thus necessitating yet more taxes and fees to fund the project)
- all the departments did not even want to be in the new building, but preferred their current locations
- the City would never even move all the departments into the building.
Oddly enough, the paper made no mention of the fact that the bond proponents and the City unabashedly lied to the public to get them to agree to a tax increase for the purchase of this building. It makes you want to live out in the country where you don't have to pay City taxes.
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