Hello, Ms. Yupette,
I live in Cherrydale and I'm exasperated by the Cherrydale Fire Station fiasco. I noticed that the County Board will appropriate another $180,000 on Saturday for alarm, dispatching, and lighting systems (Agenda Item 20). I wondered how much more the County Board will spend on this project and when it will be completed. So here is what I found out from talking to County Staff.
The total cost of the New Cherrydale Fire Station will be more than $17 million and the project is supposed to be completed in June. About $5.5 million of the cost went to the Koons Auto Empire for a parking garage in return for the 1/2 acre of land the fire station will occupy.
There will be 3 bays in the new Fire Station. One of thee bays will be for the present Cherrydale fire engine, another will be for a heavy rescue vehicle that's a reserve unit. The EMS vehicle will be transferred from Fire Station 4 (Clarendon).
So, that's our new fire station. Thought you'd like to know.
Paul in Cherrydale
12 comments:
Paul, be sure to tell your friends and neighbors that Barbara Favola is running for VA State Senate based on bringing in public infrastructure projects like your fire station on-time and under budget.
Koons? Same Koons that's plastered ads on Metrobuses saying Koons has sold 2 million vehicles locally since 1964?
Know what other Toyota dealers do? Donate piickup trucks and SUVs to the local police and fire departments.
Here in Arlington Koons is making a fortune from keeping the County's old Priuses running so teh County can say it runs Green Vehicles.
Oh Great. An EMS unit gets stripped from Clarendon? Why the hell didn't Koons donate an EMS unit?
Barbara Favola is great at handing out tax $$$ to her pet for-profits and non-profits.
Don't expect anything in the Sun Gazette about this. Scotty is busy rehearsing a Chamber event that will rubber stamp Zimmy's bloated FY 2012 Budget
Koons is worthless except as a source of tax revenue to the County. Jack Taylor may be a jerk but he allows Alexandria non-profits to stage events at his Toyota dealership.
One person, and only one person, is responsible for the Cherrydale Fire Station taxpayer rip-off fiasco - Barbara Favola.
FYI, Barbara and Libby have apparently decided to form a "joint campaign" for VA Senate.
Koons is worthless.
Yo, the CB got caught lying about Park Shirlington today.
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