From Dave Searles 

Brodhead 

To the editor:

l would like to encourage the voters of Brodhead to vote no on the Pinnow Boondoggle of turning the old fitness center building way on the south side of the community into the “Senior/Community Center.” This building is a white elephant. It looks like a feed and grain warehouse. It will be a bear to cool in summer and to heat in winter. 

We already have five property taxpayer supported white elephants in this community: City Hall, the library and three schools that are not energy efficient buildings. The old fitness center building site lacks land for outdoor events. 

I have spoken with the head of the group of the Brodhead Manor in the old Brodhead Public School. They are going to have a meeting facility that will have a seating capacity of 500. He said he has offered a room for the seniors for no charge as long as the city pays the liability insurance on the seniors. 

The Ketch Air Museum at the airport will include a meeting facility with a seating capacity of 250. 

The Pinnow Boondoggle is unnecessary and will be a property tax burden. 

The mayor and city council need to concentrate on rehabilitating the infrastructure of the city, i.e., sidewalks, streets and storm sewer system rather than wasting their efforts, money and time on boondoggle projects like the “Senior/Community Center” and the “Covered Bridge No Where” across the race from Putnam Park to the service road. This monstrosity will ruin the historic and scenic view up and down the race. It is called a replica of the Clarence Covered Bridge, but the design looks nothing like that covered bridge. 

The biggest Brodhead boondoggle is the awful oiled and pea graveled streets that do absolutely nothing to enhance them. It is just a temporary cosmetic cover up. These streets went from awful to horrible in February. Mayors and city councils have been scamming property taxpayers for decades, which is why most streets are in such bad shape. 

Vote no on the Pinnow Boondoggle of turning the old fitness center into the “Senior/Community Center.”