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To: benwood who wrote (107651)	2/1/2010 12:22:41 PM
From: Nixpix	1 Recommendation Respond to of 116555

Benwood, totally agree. There is no way the current structure can continue to exist. The people in Colorado Springs get that. Now the city is playing the game of cutting services instead of salaries and pensions.....and for those not following Colorado Springs news, they locked us (taxpayers) into a deal with the US Olympics HQs that we are paying millions of dollars for them to stay here. They threatened to leave. I say let them go.... Here is the description on a Fund raising site. The taxpayers are so angry....this was never voted on it by us. They (city council) just did it on their own. And of course the cost keeps raising every day from the original amount given. A big chunk of the cost is to be paid by the taxpayers, but because of all the anger....they have started doing lots of fund raising....look at the current cost and everything they promised them. Unreal. "As the Proud Home of the United States Olympic Committee, 21 national amateur sports governing bodies, and a premier Olympic training facility, Colorado Springs and the state of Colorado are positioned to be the center of the Olympic movement in the United States. But excellence is as difficult as it is rare, and in these challenging times, we are running a tough race to make sure we do not lose this once in a lifetime opportunity. We need your help. The United States Olympic Committee, which has been headquartered in Colorado Springs since 1978, has chosen to make Colorado its home for the next 30 years. In return, the City of Colorado Springs, in partnership with the State of Colorado, El Paso County, and the El Pomar Foundation, has agreed to make improvements to USOC facilities for the benefit of our nation’s athletes. Those improvements consist of: A professional home for five Olympic Sport National Governing Bodies. Situated adjacent to America the Beautiful Park, this facility reclaims a vacant building and retrofits it to affordable office space for amateur sports organizations dedicated to developing young talent in boxing, judo, weightlifting and more. Upgrading our state’s Olympic Training Center including new housing for athletes and their families. One of only three Olympic Training Centers in the country, this facility is also a notable attraction, receiving 115,000 visitors in 2007. A new USOC headquarters – 80,881 square feet of executive office space seated in downtown Colorado Springs. The cost to move forward with this project is $40.4 million. We must raise $4.5 million in private gifts to realize our goal. $1.5 million must be raised by November 11, 2009 to meet our fundraising commitment for Phase I. The El Pomar Foundation will match your contribution dollar for dollar up to $1.5 million. What we stand to gain from our efforts is both monumental in scope and measurable in impact: The expansion of the USOC coupled with the prevalence of private sports clubs, broad-reaching recreation programs, and professional and intercollegiate athletics in Colorado ensures that we can provide opportunities for friendship, solidarity and fair play for the young and old, for the competitor and recreationalist, for the future Olympian and Paralympian. By investing in the USOC we will finally provide our nation’s Olympic athletes with an international headquarters and a training facility that befit their dedication and caliber of athleticism and befit our country’s international standing and national pride. Keeping the USOC in Colorado Springs boosts our local and regional economy. In 2007, spending by Olympic sports industry organizations, their employees and their visitors, including the State Games of America, generated $75.7 million in employee earnings, $44.8 million in purchases from local businesses and $31.0 million in visitor spending. Combined with secondary impacts, the total economic output is $352.3 million annually. Your investment in this project matters. Please join us in setting a new benchmark for excellence in Colorado Springs and for our nation’s Olympic movement.

To: benwood who wrote (107651)	2/1/2010 12:55:48 PM
From: mishedlo	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

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To: benwood who wrote (107651)	2/1/2010 4:45:27 PM
From: Jim McMannis	2 Recommendations Respond to of 116555

Because the county would annex it and tax it too. Here your property taxes go into a big pot and are doled out to municipalities anyway. The only way to straighten this out is let government jobs, salaries and pensions go down with the private sector. Right now the average government job pays $70k and the private sector pays $40k. Then there are the one time retirement payouts say $300k plus the 80-90% pensions. Municipal workers, police, commissioners, airport, county aministrators, fire etc. Here you can retire for 30 days, get your one time payout, start you penision and then get your old job back at the same pay and start the retirement process again. Taxpayers are getting milked to death as government workers milk the system.