Here’s an interesting “yes on A” letter. This letter was written by one of the people behind “Yes on A”, local realtor and investor Bill Brouhard.
For me and my family, Measure A boils down to some very simple truths.
If Measure A passes, Chico’s parks and recreation get way better.
If Measure A fails, Chico’s parks and recreation deteriorate.
If Measure A passes, I’ll be paying $85 a year, that’s less than 25 cents a day.
A gumball costs 25 cents.
If Measure A passes, all those gumballs add up to roughly $3 million per year, 100% of which by law must be spent on local parks and recreational facilities. CARD has a list of those projects on their website.
When a gumball a day can make and help keep Chico a better place, seems like a thing we all can and should support. Let’s do the right thing this time. YES on Measure A.
— Bill Brouhard, Chico
First of all, I find this argument insulting – he’s calling our concerns cheap and petty. A gumball a day? No mention of the $36 million dollar bond, or the $2 million a year in debt service.
He’s also threatening us.
“If Measure A passes, Chico’s parks and recreation get way better.
If Measure A fails, Chico’s parks and recreation deteriorate.”
Sounds like a bully – give us the money or the parks die!
But you know the most interesting thing about Bill Brouhard is, he’s a realtor.
A Chico State graduate and resident since 1979, Bill Brouhard has been involved in the planning, entitlement and development of many of Butte County’s largest mixed use residential, office and industrial real estate projects.
Brouhard is also with Every Body Healthy Body. They are the folks who pitched CARD and the city for a gi-NOR-mous sports facility to be located south of town.
He also represents a property owner who is having trouble selling his land because it has all these environmental restrictions on it. When Brouhard came to a CARD meeting a couple of years ago, he was trying to get CARD to buy that land to build the facility.
Folks, Brouhard doesn’t care about Chico or our future, he just wants to sell his client’s doomed property.
A gumball a day, my ass. I’m sure Blowhard is expecting to get a lot more out of it than a gumball a day.
Chico Taxpayers Association 