Apparently there is a flock of sheep hanging around Cary, looking for a pasture. That’s because the pasture they were designed to live in’s construction has been post-poned.
The town of Cary recently post-poned building the 3.9 million dollar Bartley Community Park. Cary only spent around $400,000 before moving the rest of the money into the town’s general fund.
It’s nice to see steps like this, that seem to be financially responsible, being taken right now in these times (though I’m rather inclined to think that Cary will be just fine without spending $3.9 million on a park, but maybe that’s just me).
Even though I am glad to see the money moved to the general fund, I can’t help but wonder if the artwork should have already been constructed, as it has been. Now, Cary has a flock of cement sheep on their hands. Each one of the sheep weighs over 200 pounds, and the cost for this work of art has already been $17,350, with $3,000 more due once the sheep are installed.
Another $10,500 is due to another artist once his whirligig structures
are completed and picked up for this same, indefinitely post-poned
Community Park.
I guess when the park you’re designing is $3,900,000, $27,000+ seems like change, but you’d think the officials would have made sure they were going to go through with the park now (and not in the “some day” of the future) before they spent that kind of money on historic-looking concrete sheep and whirligigs.
But, then again, I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. It seems like it’s just the same old story, told a different way.
