Comments on: Leon County to Consider Another Option for Lake Hall Schoolhouse Preservation

By: Chris C

Chris C — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:18:14 +0000

I am one of the three landowners and would love to address some of these questions & concerns. Some are easily answered, some up in the air and others force conversations many seem unwilling to have. A few points:
• I took my property off the market as part of the proposal to save the school. I haven’t changed the asking price. It has nothing to do with greed.
• Thomasville Road provides the only public access. Access from Lake Hall Rd is a private drive.
• The Lake Hall School isn’t Critical Race Theory, The 1619 Project, Gender Theory or other Grievance Studies being forced into our schools. It’s an opportunity for us who prefer Marxist free history to publicly distinguish the difference between reality and divisive narratives.
• Why move it!? It sits where freed slaves built it, in their community near their graves, some dating to the early 1800s. We’ve all enjoyed MaClay Gardens. To keep MaClay in its true historical context, the school should stay.
• Few are as white as me, but I can assure you white guilt is not a factor. Marxists use of race to”disrupt & dismantle” today, is not a good reason to rob future generations of real history

By: Victoria Martinez

Victoria Martinez — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:47:58 +0000

The decision on the preservation off this historical building is following an irrational and undemocratic path.

Several concerned citizens have proposed above alternatives that are much less costly to the tax payers and less enabling of the greed of land owners and contractors than what the commission is contemplating.

Why doesn’t the Leon County Commission have a benefit cost analysis of the above alternative options to compare to their proposal and put it to the citizens to decide which way to go?

By: News Maven

News Maven — Mon, 16 May 2022 22:14:03 +0000

$3.3 million to “save” a one-room shack?
You’ve got to be kidding!

Taxahassee commissars are like drunken sailors, except it’s our money they’re pi$$ing away.

Vote them all out.

By: TONY

TONY — Thu, 12 May 2022 16:19:29 +0000

@ Pat A ……. That would be a good idea BUT, that’s where the Blue Print money comes from and look how well they Spend THAT money.

I say we put it on the Ballot and who ever Votes TO restore it gets the Property Tax raised.

By: Pat A.

Pat A. — Thu, 12 May 2022 12:02:52 +0000

…because it was a black school? A bit ironic considering the dropout rate in the African American community.

Let’s pay for it using a new gas tax so EVERYONE has to contribute not just the property owners. It is easy to support free stuff/new stuff when you do not have to pay for it.

By: Deep Six

Deep Six — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:15:05 +0000

You could get this commission to eat a frozen dog with a threat to call them racists. Tallahassee has a Historical Society, where are they? Why do I have to pay for the removal and preservation of their shack? I can’t get the dang street fixed in Indian Head Acres, how bout we spend some money on that? You schmucks…

Our local government is run by immoral children without the good sense god gave a sack of gravel! As evidenced by that Alexander cat who is all over the Tallahassee Democrat today!

What a disgrace…they are all drunk on our money and have lost their ever lovin’ minds!

By: FLC

FLC — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:55:15 +0000

Who, exactly, will this be for? A handful of TOC chosen minority contractors to make a killing off of the millions spent on preservation of something that should take a tiny fraction of that?
A handful of white liberals who want to assuage their self inflicted guilt?
Keeping this thing in situ is a pointless waste of money. If the black community really is into preserving this thing, where are the volunteers and donations?
If it really is to be preserved, the Tallahassee Museum is the best likely candidate. It will be used for education as the other buildings are used, not taking millions to fix up, and be seen by far more people than if it remains where it is for a few to see after the money is spent then sit forgotten again as they move onto their next project to assuage their guilt.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:40:16 +0000

They moved the concord school house that sat on my grandfathers land to the jr museum and that worked out just fine

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 11 May 2022 15:34:53 +0000

Our elected officials spend taxpayer money like water. They appear to be oblivious to the fact that inflation is soaring and we are drowning in debt as individuals and as a country.

The plan seems to be to keep spending as though money were no object until we are all broke and living in abject poverty.

@Edward and David T. have some sense, we need to elect people like them.

By: Edward Lyle

Edward Lyle — Wed, 11 May 2022 14:52:22 +0000

I think preserving the historical “schoolhouse” is a good idea. The land it currently sits on, and the surrounding properties, are irrelevant to the notion. Seems to me that a simple and less costly option would be to move the schoolhouse to a accessible location within the Maclay Gardens State Park and renovate it into a usable community meeting room. No need for a consultant, no need for lobbyists… just get your lazy tails up and walk down the street to the Capital and make the deal. No one at the state level will balk at the idea for fear of being called racist. You see, you can use the race car for something good… what a concept.