LETTERS: Parks not among county’s pressing needs

To the editor:

So Clark County has had $33.4 million dropped in its lap and is planning to blow it on parks (“Clark County earmarking $33 million for parks projects,” Monday Review-Journal). Every day, we hear about the dismal state of our roads, schools, public safety, mental health facilities, foster care and the homeless, yet our county officials think we need more parks.

There are five parks within a five-mile radius of my home, all of which are underutilized and consume an enormous amount of our precious water and tax dollars to maintain. If Siegfried and Roy want a park, I’m sure they could afford to build their own. With the impending water crisis, neighborhoods filled with abandoned and foreclosed-on homes, and all the other priorities facing our community, I would think that the county’s $33.4 million windfall could be put to better use.

How about Clark County building a new mental health care facility, with our county officials being committed as the first group of patients?

BILL EDWARDS

LAS VEGAS

Stop horsing around

To the editor:

I read with shock and dismay that Clark County is planning to spend a total of $9.5 million on not one, but two equestrian parks in the near future (“Clark County earmarking $33 million for parks projects,” Monday Review-Journal). Have our county commissioners lost their minds?

We have serious needs in Clark County, with schools and roads leading the list. Nowhere on that list can I find equestrian parks. How many Clark County equestrian riders are there to actually justify two parks? I would like the commissioners, specifically Larry Brown and Tom Collins, to publicly explain the need for two equestrian parks.

BRUCE ALITT

LAS VEGAS