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Proposal to install 10 drinking fountains across Downtown Austin could cost nearly $1M
kvue ^ | Sept. 13, 2019 | Pattrik Perez

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at kvue.com ...


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KEYWORDS: austin; tx; wastingtaxdollars
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To: tflabo

... progressives....


21 posted on 09/14/2019 8:57:36 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bgill

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


22 posted on 09/14/2019 9:01:24 AM PDT by deport
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To: bgill
Get another estimate or scrap those plans.

23 posted on 09/14/2019 9:03:18 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: bgill

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.


24 posted on 09/14/2019 9:04:46 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: HotHunt
Just looked up the cost of an outdoor fountain. About $10,000.00 each with all the bells and whistles.
25 posted on 09/14/2019 9:10:58 AM PDT by fproy2222 (MAGA; The United States of American is still the best place to live and it can become better.)
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To: All

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.


26 posted on 09/14/2019 9:13:11 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. conclusive)
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To: bgill
The leftist officials of the People's AntiChristian Socialist Kakistocracy of Austin are trying to usurp the Shithole City title from San Francisco.
27 posted on 09/14/2019 9:16:46 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: stylin19a

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


28 posted on 09/14/2019 9:21:33 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

What a waste of tax dollars.


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.


29 posted on 09/14/2019 9:35:48 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: tflabo

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.


30 posted on 09/14/2019 9:36:49 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: bgill

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


31 posted on 09/14/2019 9:38:20 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: bgill
"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..... :)

32 posted on 09/14/2019 9:39:30 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: fproy2222
".... 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?

33 posted on 09/14/2019 9:39:39 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: bgill

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


34 posted on 09/14/2019 9:49:31 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bgill

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


35 posted on 09/14/2019 10:02:13 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: HotHunt

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


36 posted on 09/14/2019 10:17:49 AM PDT by fproy2222 (MAGA; The United States of American is still the best place to live and it can become better.)
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To: bgill

Also a clash tray and spit out gum.


37 posted on 09/14/2019 10:18:46 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: tflabo

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


38 posted on 09/14/2019 10:21:38 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Two Kids' Dad

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

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


39 posted on 09/14/2019 10:49:33 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: bgill

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


40 posted on 09/14/2019 10:52:03 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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