Proposal to install 10 drinking fountains across Downtown Austin could cost nearly $1M

kvue ^ | Sept. 13, 2019 | Pattrik Perez

[Rurudyne]

... progressives....

[deport]

Spend tax money is the job of elected/hired officials it seems

sometime back:

The city council on Thursday night approved a measure to pay a company more
than $100,000 a year to clean one single toilet in Austin.

Their new idea is one public bathroom. The city did a pilot program of the
bathroom last year, and now the city is thinking of bringing it back. However,
they need to keep it clean. The proposal would pay a company $115,000 a year
to clean the souped-up port-a-potty.

The toilet is portable, so it can move around as events require. However,
it would stay within a five-mile radius of the State Capitol.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/austin-council-approves-measure-to-spend-100k-a-year-to-keep-single-downtown-port-a-potty-clean/269-600366099

[BitWielder1]

Get another estimate or scrap those plans.

[unixfox]

They will hire at least 20 people to take care of them. Probably cost another million a year for that. It just never stops with these people.

[fproy2222]

Just looked up the cost of an outdoor fountain. About $10,000.00 each with all the bells and whistles.

[Liz]

The germs present all over a public drinking fountain are disgusting.

Never ever use one.

The medical knowledge we have is that one’s mouth is like a sewer.

Seeing people drink from public fountains nauseates me.

[Carl Vehse]

The leftist officials of the People's AntiChristian Socialist Kakistocracy of Austin are trying to usurp the Shithole City title from San Francisco.

[bgill]

A wackdoodle was arrested for trying to burn down the ARCH Thursday. Never a dull day at the ARCH.

[hanamizu]

What a waste of tax dollars.

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I don’t know. 10 fountains for $1,000,000 comes to $100,000 apiece (if my Common Core Math lessons taught me right). Amazon has ADA fountains/bottle fillers at about $1000 apiece (less the pet fountain). I think installation of these fountains will easily run to $90,000, don’t you? The money left over will just sort of disappear.

I used to teach my Jr High history students that if they really wanted to steal money, they should get into government. Buy everyday items at ridiculously inflated prices, use some of the extra cash to pay people to shut up and pocket the rest. If you can manage to snag a cent out of every $1 that passes through your hands, before long you’re looking at big money.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Price tag...
I believe it. Engineering, permit, fees on 10 separate projects - it’s actually not hard to believe although when you think about how much it costs to actually do it - yep pretty unbelievable.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Great idea. Place them by all the new high rise condos.

[unread]

"What a waste of tax dollars."

I don't know.. Supply them from a separate tank and when the time is right you slip a little something extra in the tank and WHAM..!! You are a wise politician and have solved your homeless problem.. You shovel them up with a forklift, take'um to the desert and bury them...
See the future, be the future..... :)

[HotHunt]

".... the cost of an outdoor fountain. About $10,000.00 each with all the bells and whistles...."

So the other $90,000 goes where? Corrupt politicians? Kickbacks to the vendors?

Sounds like another liberal scam to me.

Is there any other type of scheme with democRATS politicians than a dishonest one?

[bigbob]

Those things cost about $4000 each, tops. The other $96K must be “labor”...

[Openurmind]

Who’s corrupt politician’s brother in law is slated to get the contract?

[fproy2222]

“So the other $90,000 goes where?”
I think you dropped a digest.
$1,000,000.00
- 10,000.00
_____________
$ 990,000.00

[napscoordinator]

Also a clash tray and spit out gum.

[PCPOET7]

bingo....this is Austin a demacrat city full of corruption...

[catnipman]

“Triple-filtered, reverse osmosis, purified and enhanced with minerals.”

actually, that’s exactly what my undersink RO system does!

[catnipman]

here’s a working link:

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/drinking-fountains-downtown-austin-proposal-cost-nearly-1m/269-96ebfe4e-77ef-494e-9ec5-93d39034b534