I saw a company at the park doing some cement cleaning and was wondering how much that was costing the taxpayers to have it done. I am all for making our park look better, but hiring a big company to spend days and days working on concrete cleaning has to be expensive. I once had someone come and give me a quote to clean our entire driveway, and I had to tell them that I could not afford to do it and have just watched it get dirtier and dirtier.

I decided to call that same power washing company that I had called and just ask them to give me a ball park figure of what they would charge to do the cement cleaning that was being done at the park. The number that they gave me was ridiculous. I then called and asked the mayor who was footing the bill for the concrete cleaning that was being done by the power washing company in the park and he informed me that an anonymous donor had paid for half of it, and then the company that was performing the work, donated the rest of it.

I felt like an idiot for overreacting about who was paying for the concrete cleaning, but do feel a little better now that I know it is not the taxpayers.