Perfect storm against the Fairmont Area Community Center

To the Editor:

The article in the Sentinel on Saturday, Dec. 2 about taxes going up on residential properties brings to mind what the tax impact for the full Fairmont Area Community Center (FACC) would be on our residential taxes? I have been following the back and forth of pros and cons on the issue.

Something I haven’t seen was a projection or estimate of what the cost of building and maintaining the full FACC would be on local property taxes. I guess we all know our property taxes are going up to the tune of 20 to 30 percent. I see that for me, my proposed taxes are going up 23.9 percent and the estimated market value is going up 31.8 percent. That is the cost of living in a city.

I have no idea how much the FACC would add to my taxes. Why hasn’t this information been made public? If it has, I guess I missed it by only reading the Sentinel. I don’t go to city council meetings and don’t have cable TV so maybe that is why I may have missed information about it.

Being an old man, 83, and that I may not use it doesn’t mean I am against it. For crying out loud, why hasn’t the tax impact been put out there. No wonder people are against it. What would the citizens of Fairmont have the City not spend money on: parks, roads, water, sewer, electrical systems, police and fire departments, the city maintenance building, and the law enforcement center?

Again, this is part of living in a city. Next year with new leadership in the council and a different mayor, perhaps the issues of the FACC could be re-addressed. I hope for a bright future for Fairmont to stay a vibrant progressive city.

Michael W. Lundgreen

Fairmont