Monday, September 12, 2011

Fannin County One Million Dollar Field House

Stopping in at the local convenience store, just North of Blue Ridge, Georgia, I was appalled at the story on the front page of The News Observer, one of Fannin County's local newspaper. The story revealed that $1,000,000 had been approved for a field house. I may be a bit old fashioned, but $1,000,000 seems a little much for a building for football players to change into their uniforms, take showers, house equipment and perhaps a house a weight room. I do not know the details, but it seems that we could build an adequate field house for considerably less than $1,000,000. Maybe we couldn't build a fancy field house, but one that would be sufficient for our athletic program. I played football for Fannin County High School and was well acquainted with the old field house at West Fannin and got the use the one at Fannin High my senior year in 1980. These field houses were not the fanciest, but they fulfilled their purpose well. It would be interesting to know the cost of these field houses.

In a time when we are experiencing a high rate of unemployment and facing economic uncertainty, it would be refreshing if our elected officials would be more frugal with taxpayers money. The citizens of Fannin County need to hold our elected officials accountable for the money used to build this field house and make sure not one dime is wasted. In fact, there would be nothing wrong with the citizens having a meeting with the school board to discuss a less  expensive but sufficient field house. With government spending out of control, why not start at the local level in curtailing government spending.

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