This morning OpenCdA received an email from an alert reader. The reader linked us to this Coeur d’Alene Press newspaper column headlined The Front Row with JASON ELLIOTT April 6, 2013 – NIC gym getting a makeover. The second sentence in the column reads, “Thanks to some funding from the Coeur d’Alene department of public works, the next time anyone steps into the gym at NIC, it will be onto a brand new gym floor.”
Our alert reader asked why the Coeur d’Alene department of public works is funding a new gym floor at North Idaho College.
We emailed the reader’s question to Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Dan Gookin with a couple questions of our own. Within a few minutes, Councilman Gookin responded that he intended to ask that question of City Finance Director Troy Tymesen. Gookin also observed that since the City does not really have a department of public works with that formal title, the Press article may have been in error and meant to say the Idaho Division of Public Works.
We went to the Idaho Division of Public Works, Construction Projects webpage and found this:
We wonder if anyone at the Coeur d’Alene Press bothers to check stories for accuracy.
And our thanks to Councilman Dan Gookin for his quick response to our question!
Didn’t we just hear somewhere they were going to build a new gym? If so, why are they spending this kind of money on the old gym?
Comment by concerned citizen — April 6, 2013 @ 10:53 am
concerned citizen,
John Stone is hoping to convince NIC to spend a pile of NIC’s (meaning public) money on an event center in Riverstone West. The pitch he’s making is that could also be NIC’s new gym.
Comment by Bill — April 6, 2013 @ 11:06 am
Riverstone was given enormous LCDC “free” infrastructure, but still essentially went bankrupt? But yet Stone still fly’s on a private jet on a moments notice as if he was driving an old truck to Athol.
Yeh, this developer really needs some more help from the taxpayers to make a project pencil.
Pathetic.
Comment by old dog — April 11, 2013 @ 5:24 pm
AMEN old dog, AMEN!
Comment by concerned citizen — April 11, 2013 @ 8:22 pm