Stop the $500,000 Bailey Branch Purchase

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   Name: Jeff Kubler on Feb 21, 2013

   Comments: Yes, lets stop the boondoogle!

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   Name: Daniel Gerig on Feb 22, 2013

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   Name: Beverly Almen on Feb 22, 2013

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   Name: Carolyn Webb on Feb 23, 2013

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   Name: Peter Hinckle on Feb 23, 2013

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   Name: Robert Hass on Feb 23, 2013

   Comments: Please be conservative with our funds. Thanks very much, Robert and Dianne Hass

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   Name: Maureen Rujssian on Feb 23, 2013

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   Name: Robert L Merritt on Feb 23, 2013

   Comments: Not favorably considered at this time. Insane!

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   Name: Dan Allen on Feb 23, 2013

   Comments: How much will bringing it up to meet safety standards? Also, instead of buying something just in case we may want it later, why not use the funds on something that benefits residents now? A better option is to use the money to develop the Airport Industrial Park!!

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    Name: Steven R Edmiston on Feb 23, 2013

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    Name: Bradly Moss on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: the rail is abandoned. why pay more than 20k?

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    Name: Bob Van Vleet on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Please stop wasting our money!

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13. 13
    Name: Linda Schudel on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Fix the roads! What a waste.

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    Name: Peter Rosenast on Feb 23, 2013

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    Name: Kenneth And Bethann Ryker on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Budget and conserve finances.. Use $$ for needed items. An old RR track is not necessary for survival!!

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    Name: Lois Sweany on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: What is the county gpomg tp do with it inorder to ger back their investment?

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    Name: John Bell on Feb 23, 2013

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    Name: Jerry J. Jackson, Sr on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: The landowners spoke firmly about their opposition to the county purchasing this line. This is proof you can operate the county without a Levy. You just keep wasting money!!!

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    Name: Richard A. Bryant on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: This is truly a waste of money and demonstrates poor judgement by the Commissioners. Benton County taxpayers deserve better.

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    Name: Cruz Jackson on Feb 23, 2013

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    Name: Beverly Caron on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: If the GT does what it usually does and accepts my letter on this subject for inclusion on the opinion page, it will probably appear some time early next week. Monday or Tuesday would be my guess.

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 23, 2013

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23. 23
    Name: H Ruth ORourke on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: It's easy to throw away someone else's money

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    Name: Eric Cheney on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Stop squandering the taxpayers money!

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    Name: Sally Wardlaw on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Please spend our hard earned tax money in Benton County wisely and on issues that are relevant to Benton County right now and are in need of funds to take care of the immediate and important issues at this time. Thank you.

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    Name: Shirley K. Douglass on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: When the Bailey Branch originated I imagine that the environmental laws and impact on the land have changed. I need information as to what the impact on the land would be now.

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    Name: Richard Wells on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: I think this is a very poor way to spend the tax payers money, when there are much more important things the money could be used for.

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: I disapprove of spending that money on this rail line. There are more pressing needs. Where is the common sense in this issue.

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    Name: Gerald W. Tsupros on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Truly a bad investment in good financial times. Totally irresponsibility in these financial times.

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    Name: Paul Rentz on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: I took the time to thank Jay Dixon for his 'nay' vote Friday, in Market of Choice. Although it seems like it would be 'neat' to have train service between Eugene and Corvallis, if it were to occur it should be privately funded. The current owners couldn't make it 'pencil' with the freight customers, there's no way to make it come close with passengers. And it would tie up a $500,000 purchase for years until it MIGHT become something feasible. To return it to a useful purpose would take MUCH more that the half million spent to purchase it. Besides, who would purchase that property anyway at this point? Are there others interested in the purchase- and what use would they have with that land? What legally could they do with it? Really, the last thing we need to do with limited funds is to spend 5% of funds available for really important projects on a 'pipe dream'.

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    Name: Alan Pastre on Feb 23, 2013

    Comments: Highly irresponisble spending!

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    Name: Sally Faddis on Feb 23, 2013

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    Name: David M. Faddis on Feb 23, 2013

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    Name: Izella Stuivenga on Feb 24, 2013

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    Name: Robin Costa on Feb 24, 2013

    Comments: Please during these very tough times when money and budget is so tight and even having to lay off people - don't pay half a million dollars out. Try to be fiscally responsible with OUR MONEY.

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    Name: Jeff Limon on Feb 24, 2013

    Comments: Fiscal suicide

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    Name: Charles Lund on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: Mark O'Brien on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: This is a financially "unsustainable" purchase.

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    Name: Nick Larew on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: ROBERT T PARROTT on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: Dale & Patricia Anderson on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: Do not waste money on this!

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    Name: Kim Rowe on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: The Federal Gov't is in debt to the tune of Trillions. The State of Oregon is in debt by Billions. Benton County also has budget shortfalls, as does the city of Corvallis. We taxpayers have had enough. STOP THE SPENDING!

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    Name: Kenneth McCracken on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: Gregory J. Conser on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: Please do not waste the County's limited funds on this "investment." I do not believe the County would ever be able to re-coup their investment and there are more pressing needs.

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    Name: Donald Lee Sullivan on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: I'm retired from the railroad and have worked on that line for about25 years. I see this a a huge waste of money.It is not worth saving.That is why the railroad abandoned it and for the county to waste 500,000 when they are cutting critical services is not being responsible. Mr. Dixon is all over this and rightly so.

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    Name: Luis Vela on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: Kerri Vela on Feb 25, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: This is remeniscient of the city councilors of Salem purchasing the Union Street railroad bridge for $1, in order to use it as a pedestrian bridge. Of course, millions of taxpayer dollars later they accomplished it, after repairs and removal of lead based paint. These government bureaucrats always find it easy to spend OPM (Other People's Money) on fiscally irresponsible projects such as these. Obviously, our Benton County Commissioners are no different.

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    Name: Rachel Kubler on Feb 25, 2013

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