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Girl Scouts get a break in city: Council approves tax incentive
November 20, 2008
by Jeff Saunders
Reporter
"It will be a good investment. We will be good stewards of the money you've provided us and we will be good neighbors," Fred Cash, a member of the GSNEO's board of directors, told Council after the vote.
Alford-Smith said the GSNEO is consolidating its Akron and Cleveland offices and moving those workers into the former Norandex building. The move and some renovations to the facility should be completed by the end of the year.
She said the GSNEO plans to use the MOP grant, along with the $2.3 million it received in the sale of its former Akron headquarters, to help pay for the $3 million building, which it purchased in September on what was formerly called South Park Drive, but Council this summer renamed to Girl Scout Way.REALLY??? $3 million for a new building and not a dime for the girls. This is just shameful.
Can girls fight city hall? Or is all this by the girls for the girls just lip? EVERY girl I've taken to Crowell/Hilaka has loved it. Even girls that weren't into rustic camping! They need to enjoy the outdoors too. Plese get ready to cough up some serious coin and we promise the money will go toward repairs.
ReplyDeleteWe can and we will save Hilaka! Without camps like this, Girl Scouts will really be in trouble. We have to stick up for the girls in this situation, as it seems more and more that Girl Scouts isn't about the girls anymore...
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