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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Is the Town of Oro Valley Promoting The Naranja Park Site? We Think "YES"
In November, you will be voting to issue $48 plus million in bonds to build the Naranja Park. And to add a secondary tax to your tax bill.
There is a website that is copyrighted to the Town of Oro Valley that is separate from the town's website although they are linked. The site is not registered to the Town of Oro Valley, It is registered to Gordley Design Group, Inc, an advertising and promotion firm (here comes the slick brochures extolling the virtues of this theme park: Shades of Oro Valley Marketplace).
In our opinion the town is hiding the fact that it owns this site.
Yes. It is a separate web site from the Oro Valley web site that barely identifies itself as a Town Of Oro Valley Site. (Challenge: go to the site and find the reference to the fact that is is an Oro Valley town website. Hint: Look for tiny print at bottom.)
The site promotes the boondoggle: The vast majority of the site discusses the virtues of the park. There is hardly any discussion on its heavy burden placed on the taxpayers.
In addition, the town also is appearing at local functions, handing out brochures that promote this park extoling the virtues while severely understating the costs and the burden on taxpayers.
The town will claim that it is merely informing people about the park.
However, their materials do not present a balanced view of the costs (such as the heavy annual ongoing maintenance costs, the implications of the town using its general obligation bonding capacity or the potential interest rate of the bonds) of this extravagance. In addition, the web site's very existence as a unique and distinct eight page web site that is separate from and, we contend, whose relationship to the Town Of Oro Valley is stealthily hidden is done to hide the fact that the town is promoting this endeavor..
Use of town funds to promote or otherwise influence your vote is ILLEGAL.
The site should be taken down immediately. All brochures or town web pages that discuss the endeavor should devote equal space and words to discussing its on time and ongoing costs, such that readers get a balanced view.
Visit the site. Get copies of the literature. Tell us what you think.
There is a website that is copyrighted to the Town of Oro Valley that is separate from the town's website although they are linked. The site is not registered to the Town of Oro Valley, It is registered to Gordley Design Group, Inc, an advertising and promotion firm (here comes the slick brochures extolling the virtues of this theme park: Shades of Oro Valley Marketplace).
In our opinion the town is hiding the fact that it owns this site.
Yes. It is a separate web site from the Oro Valley web site that barely identifies itself as a Town Of Oro Valley Site. (Challenge: go to the site and find the reference to the fact that is is an Oro Valley town website. Hint: Look for tiny print at bottom.)
The site promotes the boondoggle: The vast majority of the site discusses the virtues of the park. There is hardly any discussion on its heavy burden placed on the taxpayers.
In addition, the town also is appearing at local functions, handing out brochures that promote this park extoling the virtues while severely understating the costs and the burden on taxpayers.
The town will claim that it is merely informing people about the park.
However, their materials do not present a balanced view of the costs (such as the heavy annual ongoing maintenance costs, the implications of the town using its general obligation bonding capacity or the potential interest rate of the bonds) of this extravagance. In addition, the web site's very existence as a unique and distinct eight page web site that is separate from and, we contend, whose relationship to the Town Of Oro Valley is stealthily hidden is done to hide the fact that the town is promoting this endeavor..
Use of town funds to promote or otherwise influence your vote is ILLEGAL.
The site should be taken down immediately. All brochures or town web pages that discuss the endeavor should devote equal space and words to discussing its on time and ongoing costs, such that readers get a balanced view.
Visit the site. Get copies of the literature. Tell us what you think.
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