What readers are saying online
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‘This sounds like a good idea to me in order to save the Blue Building. I would love to donate a few hours of my time to help get the Blue Building back in shape. I think all these empty buildings in McMinnville should be used for anything in order to keep them from being destroyed and new ones built. We are already taxed to death! Remember the wheel tax to pay for the new high school. Well, we’re still paying it.’
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‘Look at the Blue Building and its run-down condition. Who is responsible for it? The taxpayers? I want a new policy for city administration. They don’t spend unless voted upon by the people in the form of a referendum ‘ Why should they have the power to spend or allocate funds if they don’t take care of what they have and the Blue Building is a perfect example. ‘ Please tell me that city administrators did not receive any pay raises for doing their job in the last 40 years because the Blue Building proves to me that maybe they weren’t doing what they were supposed to do. This looks like a case of not taking care or protecting the property of the people and allowing it to run down.
How quick would the tax office react if I failed to pay or take care of my responsibility? How quick would the water department shut off my water if I failed to do what I was supposed to do? How quick would the police department act if I was suspected of doing something wrong?
Is city administration responsible, accountable, or culpable for the condition of the Blue Building? Maybe we should find out.’
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‘To all the people that want to restore these old buildings, help yourself with your own money ‘ not with my tax dollars. Old buildings are money pits. Ms. Rachel Killebrew and other philanthropists can donate all they want, but do not ask the widowed and the poor to fund their worthwhile causes on the backs of those already burdened.’
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‘Hey I have an idea. Why don’t we all quit going to Wal-Mart and start giving our business back to local stores and pharmacies. After about six months we may get lucky and Wal-Mart will close down and we would have a big enough building to house all of the city’s offices. Think of all of the mom-and-pop businesses that Wal-Mart has closed down. We would be doing the county a great service if this were to happen.’