The fate of the Thompson Park Zoo Aviary will become more clear Monday evening as City Council and the Zoo's board members gather in the park to discuss revised plans to replace the structure with an events pavillion and make overdue improvements to the adjacent children's zoo.
Plans to make the aviary into a learning center collapsed as cost estimates escalated, so the reboot was quietly negotiated and hopefully Council and the Zoo will agree on a design for the replacement structure which will fall within the originally budgeted amount for fixing up the tired and largely unused exhibit.
Behind the scenes talks on the issue seem to have resulted in a consensus. Candidly alot of time (and yes money) has been spent in the back and forth on what to do, but sometimes the conflict and debate is what makes for the ultimate compromise everyone can support. Let' hope that's what has happened here.
5 comments:
Big waste of money. If it was your money would you all have been so quick to waste it.
Top priority should be building some public restrooms for the park. The existing ones are disgusting and inadequate. I think the best place for new ones would be on the strip of land between the golf course building and the circle drive on the summit.
Agree, 8:49 but the very same question could be asked of each and every single town and village councilperson; school board member, county legislator; et al in all of Northern New York!
What about a nice place to do bath salts? Get a donation from the High Life and the others who sell it.
8:45 makes a great point. The schools and everyone else wastes money so we should too.
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