Refresher: How the BMX track was driven out of Longmont

In the July 14, 2009 Longmont City Council meeting, the issue of the former BMX track came up. It used to be over by Union Reservoir, but is now gone. Councilmember Mary Blue was asked about it at Rhythm on the River recently, and the constituent eluded to a fee hike as the reason they are gone.

Well, they were partially right. It was an attempted fee hike by Councilmember Sarah Levison, and her cohorts on council (Sean McCoy and Karen Benker) couldn't say no to a fee increase (a form of a tax). I talked about this with lots of audio in a podcast back on May 4, 2008.



So the greedy get too greedy and end up with NOTHING. Councilmember Levison wanted to shake down the BMX people for a $100 here, $50 there, cleanup fees over there (which already existed) and what did the city get for her idea of "incenting"? Not a thin dime. As a matter of fact, money lost - and a venue gone and probably not coming back. Would you?

And you thought raiding Estate sales (as in recently dead people) for tax revenue was the beginning? Nope. She first went after kids, their BMX bikes and family fun. Why am I hearing The Beatles "Taxman"'s line "declare the pennies on your eyes"? These tax-and-spend types have no shame or decency.