After all the rhetoric, about the City of St. Helens, spending approximately $4,000.00+ on paper art work, and seeing pictures of the item courtesy of a local newspaper, I decided that I had to wander on down to the site, and see for myself, what all the hub bub was about. Well, the first thing I thought was Holy Crap! It is worse than what the local newspaper picture portrayed. I can't imagine why anyone would spend that kind of money on something as useless as this. Now don't get me wrong I like art as much as the next person. But why not spend the money on artwork that would last more than the first rain? Why not buy some kind of artwork that actually resembles something rather than rolled up stacked newspaper? If this is the way the City of St. Helens spends money I would like to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.
I think that the $4,000.00 would have been better spent towards food for the food bank, or Toy and Joy. Anything rather than waste it on paper artwork and I use the term artwork loosely. It is shameful that in a community where there are older folks that are having a hard time getting to doctor appointments, or to the grocery store, that this money could have been spent helping our seniors with transportation.
The city refused to fund public access TV, and now I can see what their motives really were, I would not want people to see how stupidly their money was being spent, well, anyway until after it is to late to do anything about it. (Standard government policy)
The older I get, the more I think, that when some people get elected for public service, or work in the government, they lose most all of their ability to think rational.
I certainly hope the good citizens of St. Helens make their feelings known about the money spent on paper artwork, by addressing the city counsel, hopefully this waste of monies is not repeated in the future.
What is the city going to do with the deteriorating artwork? Sell it to a worm farmer for worm food? Heck, maybe they can recoup a few dollars to put into their future artwork fund?