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Reporter: Megan Fleetwood
Email Address: megan.fleetwood@kwtx.com
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(July 17, 2008) - At least three people have died in the last four years after falls from various cliffs in Waco's Cameron Park.

There are posted danger signs and stone walls, but now the city is looking to a new way to discourage visitors from climbing too close to the edge.

Tuesday, Waco City Council approved a contract with Austin Filter Systems, Inc. out of Austin for $605 thousand.

The plans include fences made of iron bars, with cement pillars at wide intervals.

City officials say the new fences are designed in hopes of keeping park visitors safer, while not ruining the view from the park's three cliffs.

They say construction is set to begin in about a month, and should be finished by next summer.
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Posted by: Reality Check Location: Whack em Waco on Aug 12, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Fellow citizens of Waco. You get what you pay for. Stop electing and re-electing these low life criminals just because of their party affiliation. The blame lies with the citizens of this fair city. You elect these thief's and then complain about their actions. Where were the other bids from? hmmm, probably wasn't any others... The whole system here in Waco needs new blood, not the same good ol' boys that line their pockets. I say launch an investigation and check all their bank accounts. I'm sure they are all guilty of income tax evasion as well...
Posted by: louis Location: china spring on Jul 26, 2008 at 08:18 AM
is this 600k coming out of the kickback that the council or commissioners get, or out of our pockets that we had no say in. maybe if the ex-councilwoman on trial now wants to make restitution,,,let her pay for it.
Posted by: Tony Location: Waco on Jul 25, 2008 at 09:03 PM
Give me some t-posts and some razor wire and I can save the tax payers of Waco a couple $100K. Oh, and give me some plywood and Krylon paint so I can make a sign that say, "If you get to close to the edge, you can/will fall because there's is such a thing as GRAVITY! And, If you choose to be stupid enough to take the chance, it's your own darn fault." I just don't get it...why do tax payers have to foot the bill for other people's stupidity???
Posted by: katarina Location: waco on Jul 21, 2008 at 12:55 AM
I guess the comments I made earlier were too harsh for they didn't get printed!!
Posted by: Lori Location: Waco on Jul 20, 2008 at 10:03 AM
What a waste of our tax dollars. No fence is going to stop those idiots that ignore all warning signs. How stupid can you be.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen Location: Waco on Jul 19, 2008 at 10:47 PM
This is just too insulting. We the taxpayers paying for someone's stupidity! Instead of wasting our money on something that will fail to stop the idiots, pass a city ordinance that it is against the law to get within a so many feet of the cliffs and let an officer stand there and ticket the idiots. Instead of paying out for something so ridiculaous, Waco could benefit from the fine money!
Posted by: Concerned Tax Payer Location: McLennan County on Jul 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM
You have got to be kidding me. $600K for a fence. Let the tax payers vote on that along with privatizing the County Jail. I thought the City Council was smarter than that. Now I will have to put them in the same category as our lovely County Commissioners and County Judge. (What a JOKE!) You want to do what is best for the city and county, let the tax payers vote on it.
Posted by: Biker Location: Cameron park on Jul 18, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Spend the money on something useful like more funding for our park rangers to monitor the park.
Posted by: S Location: Robinson on Jul 18, 2008 at 11:37 PM
So what's going to keep the idiots from climbing up the cliff from the river trail below and falling off? Hmmm.......
Posted by: rusty Location: gatesville on Jul 18, 2008 at 10:05 PM
If we want to build a fence, go south. If people can't see a cliff, they must not be to bright. Build a fence on the Mexican border. We need to have our priorities adjusted just a little. $600K seems a bit much from keeping stupid people from falling off of a cliff. They don't need to breed, might even be a good thing in the long run.
Posted by: Jacque Location: Waco on Jul 18, 2008 at 06:21 PM
I agree this is a stupid waste of taxpayer dollars. I grew up in Waco and ran all over that park and never once did I try to play on the cliffs. Now taxpayers have to pay to put up a fence that these fools will just climb over and continue to be mangled and killed.
Posted by: Gil Location: Killeen on Jul 18, 2008 at 04:42 PM
What a WASTE of $600k! How about dumping that into education in the really smart city of Waco. Maybe with more money spent on education, waco folk can learn that Fall of Cliff = Hurt/Dead. The Waco City Council should go play on the edges of these cliffs.
Posted by: dmg Location: waco on Jul 18, 2008 at 04:27 PM
This wont stop the people who have total disregard for thir safety, they'll just climb over it. And it poses another avenue for some poor suicidal individual to kill themselves.
Posted by: scott Location: waco on Jul 18, 2008 at 04:13 PM
i dont understand what the 600 grand is for? i build iron fences for a living and 600 grand is a lot of fence... why didnt waco put this out for bid? maybe some local business could do for less and benefit. with fuel prices the way they are why get someone from austin? sounds like another inside crooked under the table contract given out to someones friend or relative!!! [we dont need another mills robbing us]
Posted by: jennifer Location: waco on Jul 18, 2008 at 04:11 PM
i think they think it is necessary since they have been sued by the families of one or two of these idiots
Posted by: LN Location: Robinson on Jul 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Something else that makes one think. $600,000.00 for a fence could be 12 police officers or fire fighters for a year, at $50,000.00 annual salary. Priorities?
Posted by: Ashley Location: Waco on Jul 18, 2008 at 10:57 AM
you ever notice that there are no retarded animals running around in the wild? you know why? BECAUSE THEY ARE THE FIRST TO GET EATEN!! why should taxpayers spend their hard earned money because a few morons fell over? i agree with LN. let the herd be thinned!
Posted by: LN Location: Robinson on Jul 18, 2008 at 10:05 AM
This is just more political correctness to the extreme. When I was a child I learned to stay away from the edge of a cliff because if I fell it would either hurt really bad or I would die. Those that have done that and proven the concept were, in fact, too stupid to know it instincively. The fact they died is natures way of weeding out the un-intelligent. Or as I like to call it, thinning the herd.
Posted by: WacoWarrior on Jul 18, 2008 at 08:45 AM
All they need is a sign stating: XX number of people have died from falling off the cliffs, "DON'T BE NUMBER XX 1" "STAY AWAY FROM THE EDGE"...
Posted by: Mike Location: In My Chair on Jul 18, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Why is the city wasting $600K on this fence. To get to the edge of the cliffs, you have to go over a stone retaining wall that is plastered with signs saying "Do not climb over wall", etc... I feel sympathy for the people who lost loved ones at the cliffs, but it is not teh city's fault. Maybe instead of a fence, the city should hire someone to stand at the wall to beg people not to go over the wall...
Posted by: Fran Location: W. Texas on Jul 18, 2008 at 08:12 AM
I am not from Waco but seems to me that if you are STUPID enough to get up on the wall and not heed the warning signs, then that's YOUR fault!!!! Spend the money on something MORE important!
Posted by: Renee Location: Gatesville on Jul 18, 2008 at 06:18 AM
All because people are to stupid to read the warning signs and stay away from the edge!
Posted by: El Diablo Location: Hell on Jul 17, 2008 at 11:35 PM
The new barriers will be in the same locations and will be the same height as the old ones. Can't the Waco City Council think of something better to do with $600K than spin its wheels on the edge of the cliff?
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