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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/02/2009 10:36 PM Updated by: thepinetree on 06/02/2009 10:37 PM
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Shut Down Columbia State Park? ~By Albert J. Segalla

Columbia, CA...I enjoy Columbia Park, especially the Fallon House Theater and the Fiddle Contests. My Wife, Kyran, used to manage the theater years ago. However, the state has not been a responsible landlord. It has problems maintaining the historic buildings and the lessees can't invest in the improvements due to their short term. In addition, there are issues in the operation of the park due to the crushing state bureaucracy... 

Contrast this with the historic town of Murphys where the buildings are privately owned and the community is a wonderful success without bureaucrats or taxes.

Columbia Park is unique, however, and the future would be much brighter if it were privately owned with CC&Rs for historical preservation and a property owners association. This privatization model possibly could work for other state ventures such as county fairs etc.

While we slept, over the years, the state has created a bloated bureaucracy with a built in lobby designed to overcome reasonable efforts at reform. They did the same thing to public education.

The only reason the state would close Columbia would be to teach the voters a lesson - to not oppose it's continued expansion and plunder of the taxpayer. The lesson of Prop 1A is that the taxpayer can overcome the government spending lobbies, this in spite of wide spread public deception.

Perhaps it is time for us to wake up and use reason and good will to solve community problems - not bureaucrats and politicians.



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