Comments on: Town Council Spending $10,000 to Patch up Fishing Pier

By: Chip Moore

Chip Moore — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:04:16 +0000

I agree with Deborah 100%, why should FEMA / US Taxpayer pay to repair a fishing pier? The US Government cannot pay for everything! We as a nation are almost bankrupt now — keep the repair cost local!

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:48:02 +0000

Leave it to Cape Charles to whine about the fishing pier and no money from FEMA! Of course FEMA has lots of money — but homeless people take priority over a fishing pier. Cape Charles will just have to suck it up and invest their own money. They can come up with $$$ for everything else. Maybe they could apply the water bill money they collect from South Port to the pier. And YES — South Port needs to pay their water bill. If the town lets them off the hook they are going to make a lot of people angry big-time. Plenty of people have purchased homes that were in really bad shape and while they worked on the houses, like it or not they had to pay water bills. Suck it up South Port and PAY YOUR BILL!

By: Linda Burke

Linda Burke — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:44:36 +0000

The Town Council throws money at Echelon ad nauseum, but won’t forgive a disputed debt to a business that will increase tourism in Cape Charles? Come on Town Council — get real.

By: Steve Downs

Steve Downs — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:39:22 +0000

Good idea to forgive everybody their water fees on vacant or unused lots and buildings AND stop doing it. It amounts to robbery anyway. Pay for nothing? What a brilliant concept. Maybe the town could apply it to other things ….

By: Kearn Schemm

Kearn Schemm — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:50:49 +0000

If the town had just kept the $40,000 insurance proceeds from the Old School, we would have plenty to pay for the pier repairs.