Comments on: $1 Million Project To Improve Rocky Branch Road

By: DO WHAT

DO WHAT — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:10:19 +0000

Does the county have anymore property to rent out for $1.00 a year. I would like to start a business and this sounds like a good deal. Which county commisioner benifits from this good ole deal. I have to pay $35.00 to rent the park for my childs birthday party and this shooting club pays $1.00 a year to rent county property and have a business with 700 to 8oo members who all have to pay a membership fee. WHAT A DEAL and a GOOD OLE DEAL AT THAT.

By: M

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:57:58 +0000

You know it. I here you Marc. Thats what should happen.That $1 needs to increase. The only reason I’m on here sarting trouble is I’m bored. Got layed off .Just passing the time being a nusince. LOL

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:41:56 +0000

Slam D? Did I guess right? Old friend I don’t think were going to see eye to eye on this subject. I do agree that the range should kick in to help pay some of the cost. I have no idea how much they pay in taxes but I do know they pay the county a dollar a year for property. Pretty good deal huh? Believe me when I tell you the county has brought in countless yards of red clay over the years only to have it wash down the creek. The last time we got flooded in we went around the back way only to find Rubin on a backhoe trying to save his burm. He told us that another hour of rain and he would have lost the whole pond. Yall come out and see us sometime. Bring the truck not the car the washboards in the road will shake the fillings out your head. LOL.

By: M

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:08:08 +0000

Thats great . He deserves it.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:41:49 +0000

M…….forgive my husband, he is just so happy because now that the road is coming, he will finally be getting a new truck

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:37:49 +0000

REGARDING:
“there is less than 10 residents down that road. Put a couple of culvert pipes and bring in some clay”

Regardless of what any one of us sees as “need”, all dirt roads in the county were supposed to be paved with Local Option Sales Tax revenues per the 1992 vote. The fact that they haven’t already been paved does not speak well of elected officials charged with carrying out their duties.

Paving of roads is not just for residents of those roads but for any who go down them: Ambulances, deputies, linemen, meter readers, muzzle loaders, school buses, lost Yankees, prospective buyers.

Exactly how it should be done is a separate question but that it SHOULD be done should never be in doubt.

David for doing our duty

By: M

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:56:22 +0000

@ Marcus .Yes M is the correct letter for me. I just think there is a cheaper solution to getting over that creek when there is a heavy rain and it floods.Like your wife Tina said alot of the people using that road aren’t even from here.Make the gun club ,as a club contribute towards paving since they use it more than the residents.And in an emergency situation you know Rubin would let you out the other way.All governments need to cut spending and not paving this road is a good place to start.Hey Marcus here’s another clue…M.D.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:18:01 +0000

M (assuming that is your real letter) you just keep drinking on that big ole glass of haterade. Meanwhile my neighbors and i will be enjoying our newly paved road that we have been promised for years. Yes part of the reason the road is being paved is because of the excessive amount of traffic going in and out of the range. Another reason is the red clay that is brought in every other month or so is not good for wet lands. There are many reason factoring in to this decision. Todd I don’t remember seeing you at the meeting we had last week. You know the one between the neighbors and the county and the contractors. As far that crud about pigs and old men or whatever you were talking about ,I bet you don’t put that junk on the shooting ranges web site. If you did and signed your real name you would be finding a new place to shoot before you could say reload.

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:48:28 +0000

Hmmmmmm, actually “TODD” many, many “members” of the “shooting range” are ALABAMA and SANTA ROSA residents! Get your facts right TODD!
If you can’t keep your facts right, I sure hope you’re NOT one of the one’s shooting targets and missing??

By: PensacolaEd

PensacolaEd — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:17:19 +0000

Actually, Todd, in 1981 when the County originally asked the neighbors if the Muzzleloaders could shoot in the “Borrow pit”, there were already several families living on Rocky Branch Road. The Range was originally supposed to shoot just a couple of weekends per month, not grow into the huge club it is today. The neighbors were always supposed to have the right to have the County shut the range down – I can prove this, I have the actual minutes from the BOCC Meeting where this was put out in 1981.

And the reason the range is going to remain here is because the Neighbors and the ERML Management went through arbitration, and the range agreed to make improvements not only to make the range better, but also to make it safer and quieter. The actual number of ERML Members that are registered voters in Escambia County is less than 500.