Taxpayers need to know
Editor, The Sun:
Has anybody heard anything about the $195,000 that went missing? No, now it has been swept under the rug and an insurance claim has been filed and that’s the end of that.
The golf course was purchased for a sewer spray field, that’s how the county commission and top employees got the money approved for the purchase. The golf course have more than 700 sprinkler heads already piped and ready to spray water. I wanted everyone to remember that in the paper they reported (County Administrator) David Edwards saying, ‘Throw the switch, Chuck,’ to show all taxpayers that they were using the golf course as a spray field. But everyone needs to know that they have not sprayed one gallon of water on the golf course but have destroyed all the existing piping and said it was going to cost $4.5 million in federal grants to replace it before it can be used for what it was purchased for.
A grant is tax money, just on the federal level. It is still your money.
On top of that, the county commission and top employees have closed it down and it will not be open for three years so it’s not going to be used for what it was purchased for. If Wakulla County needed a spray field that bad, why was it used like it was when it was purchased?
The county commission approved the purchase of 100-plus acres close to U.S. Hwy. 98 and Spring Creek Road for a spray field. This land was purchased before they even researched it to make sure it could be used for a spray field. I heard that it was going to be used for a $500,000 garden. It has been more than four years ago that the county put over $400,000 on a sewer pump and the individuals who OK’d the money did not have receipts to show where the money was spent. There was $18,000 missing, just like the $195,000 that went missing. It shows that money goes missing every year and what happens is there is an insurance claim made and no one cares where the money went. This is what we have in our county commissioners.
I understand they are looking for the $195,000 in Texas. It is not in Texas. That money is south of the Wakulla County Courthouse.
When you go to vote on Nov. 8th, I hope you remember this letter and think about that there has been $400,000 unaccounted for; $18,000 unaccounted for; $195,000 unaccounted for; $1.4 million spent on a golf course not being used for what it was purchased for; and $500,000 spent on 100 acres that cannot be used.
All this happened in the last five years. It doesn’t take a CPA to add this up.We need to replace everyone that had anything to do with this and we can start on Nov. 8.
Wakulla needs a change badly. The county commissioners don’t care about Wakulla County and when they all get all they can get from the county they’re going to do what other commissioners did and move away and leave us with what they have done.
We need people with common sense and values that will protect what the Good Lord gave us.
Stephen Harper
Crawfordville