Public meeting TODAY November 18th, 2015 (Wednesday) on massive Chesterfield Bikeways Plan

Originally Posted by Eric McGrane on the Richmond Tea Party Website on November 17th, 2015

Now’s your chance to have your voice be heard regarding the massive Chesterfield bikeways plan. (Plan details) The county has plans to build miles and miles of new bike/pedestrian paths, spider-webbing all over the county. Current estimates are around $300 million over the next several years. And we know how cost overruns occur…the county was just off by 9 MILLION dollars for a school.This is the same county government that just tried to pass a NEW meals tax on residents, because the county didn’t have enough money for critical services. But somehow we’ll have money for bike paths? This is sheer lunacy given the current economic conditions. Bookmark this page, because we’ll say now that this plan WILL be “funded” on debt.

You’ll hear that “this is just a plan…it doesn’t commit funds”…but that’s just word games. What the county will do is add the approved plan to an election ballot as a bond referendum, and because everyone will vote for bike paths (who doesn’t love bike paths??), voila, instant debt funding.

But we have no chance of slowing (or stopping) this plan without your help. To win the game,you have to be on the field.

Please join us tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6:30 PM, Chesterfield Public Meeting Room, 10001 Iron Bridge Rd. Chesterfield VA. Get directions here: Directions

And bring a friend. Or two friends. Or heck…bring your entire family. Your children will thank you for not running up more debt.

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Action Requested: Public meetings announced on massive Chesterfield bike path plans

Originally Posted by Eric McGrane on the Richmond Tea Party Website on October 18th, 2015

Action Alert! More meetings for public commentary have been scheduled regarding the massive and irresponsible Chesterfield County bike path plans. This multi-million dollar, multi-year plan is a boondoggle for taxpayers, all to serve a very small percentage of the county population. We’re talking hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.

We need your voice at these meetings.

We feel certain that a majority of county residents do not want to move forward with this astounding spending initiative, but your voices get drowned out by those who show up at the meetings, and in large numbers. There is a never-ending stream of people who want to reach into your wallets and purses, to directly transfer your wealth to the developers who “win” this county funding lottery.

Can we count on your support? Will you block off just a few hours of your time to protect your family’s finances? And don’t forget…you can join us this Thursday to ask candidate Cliff Bickford what is his position regarding the bike path plan.

Drop us a note if you can attend one of the meetings, and we’ll be sure to coordinate with you.

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From the county:

This is a reminder that the Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing on the draft Bikeways and Trails Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan on October 20th  starting at 6 pm. You can find the second draft and a synopsis of the public review of the second draft at www.chesterfield.gov/bikeplan.

Also, the Board of Supervisors will be holding a series of community meetings before their public hearing scheduled for November 18th starting at 6:30 pm.

Those meetings will be held:

Wednesday, October 21 – 6:30 p.m.
Manchester High School
12601 Bailey Bridge Road
Midlothian, VA  23112

Tuesday, October 27 – 6:30 p.m.
Matoaca Middle School – East Campus
6001 Hickory Road
South Chesterfield, VA  23803

Thursday, October 29 – 10:30 a. m.
Bensley Community Center
2900 Drewrys Bluff
Chesterfield, VA  23237

Thursday, October 29 – 6:30 p. m.
Thomas Dale High School – West/9th Grade Campus
3900 W. Hundred Rd
Chester, VA  23831

Thursday, November 12 – 6:30 p. m.
Swim RVA
5050 Ridgedale Parkway
Richmond, VA  23234

       

Taxpayer Protest at Old Chesterfield Courthouse on Wednesday August 28th at 6PM..

Bring your signs and your pitchforks to the Old Chesterfield Courthouse to protest the proposed Meals Tax....

Located at 10011 Iron Bridge Road on the Courthouse green, the old courthouse sits where the first colonial courthouse was once located.  The Taxpayer will be there starting at 6PM...

On April 24, 2013, under the leadership of Chair Dorothy Jaeckle, the BOS unanimously approved this meals tax resolution.

On May 22, 2013... the Taxpayer began the fight to restore fiscal sanity to a Board that loosened their budget belt to consume $14 Million more of the Taxpayers' purse and they are hungry for more. Spread the word and join the fun this coming Wednesday August 28th at 6:00PM in front of the Board of Supervisors meeting.

The adopted April 24th resolution triggers a request to order the special election on November 5, 2013 to stick it to the Taxpayer.

Unless it is defeated by the Taxpayer, the five Board of Supervisors would enact an ordinance for a new tax on the Taxpayer. That's right a $10 burger will be $0.20 more. A $50 meal will be $1.00 more. This hurts small businesses located in Chesterfield County. And when the burger  buyer does not show up because they are mad... then the small business loses $10 or $50 or $100...(read more here)

Please do all you can to fight Chesterfield and Henrico trying to raise your taxes

Please do all you can to fight this in Chesterfield and Henrico. Don't fall for the ruse. Every time any level of government tries to raise your taxes they do their level best to convince you that it's for a worthy cause. It's for the children, it's for schools, it's for teachers, it's for roads, yada, yada, yada. Of course the money never goes to those things, the government finds other places to spend it (See Virginia's recent tax increase that is supposed to go to our roads - even though we were already supposed to have money set aside for that).

At no time does the government talk about cutting spending or weeding out graft, corruption, and inefficiency. And remember this stuff when elections roll around. NO MORE TAXES!

Read an article in the Richmond Times Dispatch on how feverishly the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors is trying to promote this Tax Increase here.

I passed this on from Floyd Bayne