Posted on 09/14/2019 8:26:03 AM PDT by bgill
AUSTIN, Texas — It could cost nearly $1 million to install 10 new drinking fountains throughout Downtown Austin as part of an effort by some council members to make free drinking water more accessible for everyone.
In a city memo released on Thursday, Austin Water identified 10 proposed locations for these fountains. At least two of them would be in the vicinity of the ARCH shelter on Seventh Street.
The ADA-compliant fountains would be free to use 24/7 and would be located in well-lit areas, according to the City. Each fountain would contain three components: a drinking fountain, a bottle-filling station and a pet fountain.
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... progressives....
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.
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.
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.
A wackdoodle was arrested for trying to burn down the ARCH Thursday. Never a dull day at the ARCH.
What a waste of tax dollars.
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.
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.
Great idea. Place them by all the new high rise condos.
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..... :)
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?
Those things cost about $4000 each, tops. The other $96K must be “labor”...
Who’s corrupt politician’s brother in law is slated to get the contract?
“So the other $90,000 goes where?”
I think you dropped a digest.
$1,000,000.00
- 10,000.00
_____________
$ 990,000.00
Also a clash tray and spit out gum.
bingo....this is Austin a demacrat city full of corruption...
“Triple-filtered, reverse osmosis, purified and enhanced with minerals.”
actually, that’s exactly what my undersink RO system does!
here’s a working link:
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