Comments on: Developer Devalues Old School; County Agrees

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:57:28 +0000

Jockamo: Unless you have been here for quite awhile you probably don’t know much about the “Old school debacle”. That being said I for one don’t really care that I lost the election. You probably don’t know any of the people that fought for the community center. If you think this town is doing the right thing by raising taxes constantly, gouging us on the water and sewer bills, having way too many people sitting around in the town office doing nothing and getting paid for it — well good for you. I said this during the election to many people: The reality is that I am far more DANGEROUS off town council than on town council.

Maybe an enema for you is the answer.

By: Sgt. Jockamo Rasputin USMC Retired

Sgt. Jockamo Rasputin USMC Retired — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:08:56 +0000

Seems as if a few folks who ran for Town Council, and their supporters, have a bad case of gas/sour grapes. I would suggest a large warm glass of prune juice to perhaps make them feel better.

By: Anthony Sacco

Anthony Sacco — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:23:54 +0000

How much taxes are the Baldwins paying on the more then 160 acres (Industrial Park) in Cape Charles, now a yacht repair, for which they paid hardly nothing from the then Board of Supervisors led by the Tankards, near ZERO TAX.

I asked a businessman in Cape Charles, “How do you get rich here?” His answer was, “become a politician.”

The old school in Capeville was sold by the Board of Supervisors years back for $10,000. The buyer sold it a few months later for $100,000.

This town and county is near to being corrupt — or just plain stupid.

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:02:21 +0000

The town of Cape Charles had plenty to do with giving our Historic 100 year old school, a street, and part of the park to these “Men of Honor.” It was a dirty, underhanded deal and everyone knows it. Of course the county is who lowered the assessment. The people on Town Council led everyone to believe that our taxes would go up if the school became a community center, so naturally a lot of the Bay Creek people flipped out. Well, we didn’t get our community center and our taxes went up anyway.

By: Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:45:58 +0000

If I read the article correctly, I’d just like to point out that the town of Cape Charles had nothing to do with the assessment. The assessment was done at the County level and not the town level.

By: Steve Downs

Steve Downs — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:37:30 +0000

This is what happens when you sell to a “developer” who doesn’t even have an existing office. This guy is going to make his money and disappear before one lick of work gets done on any “developing”. What a joke this has been.

By: Deborah Bender

Deborah Bender — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:47:12 +0000

This seems like a slap in the face to the very town officials that fought so hard to hand the building to David McCormack! Now the building will only be valued at $285,000 for the next 10 years? So much for tax revenues. I pay more than that in town tax on my house.

If this all seems crazy to you people reading the article — you have just voted back into office the very people that made this little deal happen. Now all of us will have to make it up with our taxes. Thanks so much. It will be impossible for honest, intelligent people to get into office as long as the ones that are in there now continue to run dirty campaigns. And believe me when I say it was a dirty campaign!

Anyone that believes ANYTHING that a official says should quickly make an appointment with Dr. Paschall to make sure their own brain is fully functional.

I would like to know why the town continues to hand over property to developers and get nothing in return?
I would like to know why Charon Ventures has not been sent a water bill yet? Everyone else that buys a property that has a water meter on it HAS to start paying a water bill right away; however, David McCormack seems to have some sort of “pull” and he doesn’t have to pay a water bill. Hmmm — wonder why?

I can hardly wait for the next town meeting to see how our new mayor handles all of this.

By: Wayne Creed

Wayne Creed — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:02:57 +0000

Rather than a business trickledown effect, this is more like Governmental ABL (Accidental Bowel Leakage). It should be noted that due to the amount of fraud associated with deals like this, Virginia House Bill 995 proposed an expiration date of July 1, 2016, for the historic rehabilitation tax credit program (vote expected in 2015 General Assembly). AS Don Glowinski pointed out, where exactly are we supposed to make up the lost revenue the developer was supposed to be paying? Oh yeah, I forgot, the burden just gets shifted over to those who have ‘no standing’ to fight back against it. Governmental ABL does seem to be trending and all the rage here in Cape Charles and Northampton: almost $200k in tax relief given to Daddy Warbuck’s Southport to pollute our harbor and wetlands with toxic boatyard chemicals (guess who’ll get to pay for the clean-up?), not to mention relieving Bay Creek of any movement to pay their fair share of the Sullivan-Panek Molecular Fragrance Intensifier (Stinking Wastewater Plant). The scary thing is that so many residents seem so willing to accept this high seas buggery, and like a lobotomy gone awry, keep gleefully electing the very perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

By: Don Glowinski

Don Glowinski — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:07:45 +0000

This is wrong in so many ways. This is why the city is constantly fighting money woes. What a great idea…put the tax burden on residential, let businesses by without paying their fair share and see how long it will take residents to find a better place to live.

The city needs to get its act together and stop this type of highway robbery.

By: Pete Baumann

Pete Baumann — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:11:29 +0000

Love the photo. For those of us who never seem to qualify for ANY kind of meaningful tax avoidance, it is a continuous poke in the eye, but it is a reality of our pro-business trickle down policies.