The Elkhart City Council agreed Monday night to transfer the Tolson Center property to a nonprofit and provide it with funding.
The Board of Works approved the agreement on Tuesday, which still needs the approval of the Redevelopment Commission. They’ll meet to discuss the matter on August 10.
All but one member of The Council voted to transfer the property and provide it with $7 million over ten years for operations.
As it exists, the plan for the Tolson involves tearing down everything but the gymnasium and building a new, roomier $12 million facility that should open in the spring of 2023, according to The Elkhart Truth.
The construction is being paid for with money from the city, the Community Foundation, the Lily Endowment, and other philanthropic sources.
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The city should buy a golf course on the North Side, invest lots of money into upgrading it, then sell it to a non-profit for $1.
Then they could donate $700,000 in taxpayer dollars a year to that non-profit to run the course so the people on Greenleaf could golf there for free!
If this concept offends you and the Tolson deal doesn’t, you might be a hypocrite.