Old Dome Proposal Brought Up

Old Dome Proposal Brought Up

There’s probably very few, if any, people left in Julian who remember the hare-brained idea of putting a dome over the Julian Townsite that was put forth in the early seventies. Back then it was just an interesting idea that somebody came up with for no good reason at all and never lead to an actual proposal. It s origin is traced to a resident who muttered something about how there should be one after slipping on an icy sidewalk and excited a lot of people when they heard about how cool town could be by air conditioning it for the months of July and August. It’s a shame that the cantankerous originator is no longer with us having long ago passed up to that great snowdrift in the sky. Well someone was cleaning out some boxes and the original plans popped out and voila! Like the bypass, another long forgotten project whose time may have come with improved technology. Once again, absolutely no money is available to consider the construction, but the mayor knows this guy named Vinny who can help. If the town can raise enough to pay this consultant, he can slip it into an up-coming state ballot proposition that is for the benefit of babies and mothers. After all, if babies and mothers won’t benefit from the dome, who will? With the state budget out of whack by such enormous amounts, no one will even notice the cost. The mayor said if we had been a little bit further along in the planning, it would have been able to be slipped in on the federal bank bailout bill and would have been a done deal and we could have gotten the bypass tunnel to boot. With the new president, we also have a chance to see if it can be slipped in on the new bailout. Vinny says his contact in the Obama administration is very smart and cleverly concealed his tax problems, so it looks good. Infrastructure will be the in thing and if this isn’t infra, I don’t know what is!

©2009 Eric Stamets