New big blue signs in SoWal

[wrobert]

I am still mad about that bogus phone survey the TDC paid for. I was thinking about it yesterday, and I bet if I could have a crack at calling the same numbers the pollsters did I would find out that MOST of the respondents would like to see a Wal-Mart someplace along 30-A, MOST would appreciate an Applebee's or Red Lobster somewhere along 30-A, MOST wouldn't have a problem with a McDonald's or such somewhere along 30-A, etc, etc. I realize we all need to be ambassadors for the area, however our tourist outreach ought to be tempered by preservation desired by locals.

I found a payment to that company. I think it was around $13K. I wonder if that is the survey.

 

[scooterbug44]

Someone PLEASE tell me I'm wrong, because right now I am thinking that means they spent $13K to survey 150 people.

If so, time to take away Jr's credit card!!!

 

[30A Skunkape]

I found a payment to that company. I think it was around $13K. I wonder if that is the survey.

Sweet Lord, pass the nitroglycerin, I am having chest pains!

 

[scooterbug44]

I swear I am going to apply for that open job!

I've got a college degree, no criminal record, can easily pass any drug test, and am reasonably eloquent. My tendencies towards fiscal responsibility and common sense may be considered negatives though!

 

[wrobert]

Someone PLEASE tell me I'm wrong, because right now I am thinking that means they spent $13K to survey 150 people.

If so, time to take away Jr's credit card!!!

Probably not. $10K for the 07-08 Visitor Tracking Study
$4,666.67 for the 07-08 Visitor Services Study

The last one looks like an amount split up for invoicing. These were billed in the March 28 EAL. I will look back and see if I can find a bill for them that may indicate it is for the signs.

 

[wrobert]

Okay I found it.

Signage Study 50% Due $5250.00


Now I do not know if that means that the study only cost $5250, or if it was $10500.

 

[chrisv]

Okay I found it.

Signage Study 50% Due $5250.00


Now I do not know if that means that the study only cost $5250, or if it was $10500.

Continuing to throw good money after bad. Unbelievable. Like I said: A full, independent audit that brings to light every penny spent so that every citizen can see the results. Only so many folks are seeing the numbers that WGOP is posting here on SoWal.

WGOP- do you see anything in the expenditures about the Mickey Thompson tires on some of the TDC trucks? It'd be several months old. I'll bet we paid a pretty penny for those high-end tires when some goodyears or bf goodrich's would have done the job.

 

[Rita]

Okay I found it.

Signage Study 50% Due $5250.00


Now I do not know if that means that the study only cost $5250, or if it was $10500.

Sounds like $10500 to me! Doesn't the Jr. College there have some math course that could incorporate a little statistics study? They'd have most likely done a more statistically correct "survey" than this group has.


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[rapunzel]

Self-selecting, piles of money, no oversight.....move along people, nothing to see here!

So, this group wouldn't chip in on Artsquest. They didn't spearhead the scenic highway designation. What else?

 

[Smiling JOe]

chrisV, don't you know that lipstick is expensive?

What is becoming very apparent is that the TDC doesn't care about how much money they spend, because they think they don't have to answer to the ones who pay those bed taxes. Locals don't typically go after them for spending someone else's money. A Bob Dylan song is coming to mind, "The Times, They are a Changing."