The Real Facts
- The proposed "recreation center" will cost every man woman and child in Fruita $4000 each in new taxes.
- With the proposed 33% tax increase Fruita would have the highest tax rate in Mesa County.
- After your tax dollars build this center you will have to pay nearly $700 a year to use it.
- According to the city's own feasibility study the proposed recreation center will operate with an annual deficit of $322,321.
- With recession looming, foreclosures at an all time high and a struggling economy do you want MORE TAXES?
- It has been said that the recreation center is only 12 million dollars to build but the real truth is that after we repay the money we borrow to build the center, we will all have paid nearly 40 million dollars for it.
How would the recreation center affect Fruita?
It has been said that the recreation center will make business want to move here and create growth. The real fact is that higher taxes have never made an economy better.
A 33% tax increase would stifle our economy even further. Resident will shop in Grand Junction and our surrounding communities rather than here in Fruita. hurting our local businesses.
It is not fair that after the residents of Fruita foot bill to build a $40,000,000 recreation center and then have to pay a nearly $700 "annual user fee" to enter the building, or use the facilities.
Seniors that live on a fixed income will not be able to afford to use the proposed recreation center, and these are the very people that we are told the center is for.
the average household income of Fruita residents is less than that of our neighboring cities and towns and well below the average of Colorado. Why should we foot the bill ($40,000,000) to build this regional recreational center.