Preserve David City's Beauty and History

02/07/2025

The old hospital is in the process of being demolished too. I bet there were many who follow this page who were born there.

The had better not demo the public high school. Demolition of the high school is one of the possibilities in the school long range facility plan.

02/06/2025

A couple more downtown buildings are biting the dust. They were donated by Bone Creek Museum to the City of David City. The City is eligible for a grant that will take care of part of the destruction cost.

Apparently, the former Legion building was in poor shape and the building to the east needed it to be there to remain structurally sound. The city is planning make the vacated area into a green space.

01/28/2025

Hello there,

There is a community outreach meeting on Tuesday, January 28 (which is tonight for most of you reading this) at 7 PM at the David City Public High School. It will be held in the commons area outside the high school gym. I don't have a detailed agenda, but I believe that it will cover the topic below.

The school will soon be paying off its newest addition, and leadership will be sharing its plans on how to continue to keep spending money on luxuries to build their dream campus.

The spirit of the law requires big projects like these to be funded by bonds that are approved or denied by votes of the people. However, there is a loophole that allows leadership to freeze you out of the process and avoid a vote. Below is my understanding of the situation from a reading of statute and conversations with state officials.

Did you know that school leadership has formed a non-profit corporation that takes on debt for major, multi-million-dollar projects and accepts lease payments from the school, which the school makes out of its general fund? The school's general fund is grown by taxing your property.

Once the non-profit pays off the debt, it donates the building asset to the school, and then takes on more debt to fund its next project.

This loophole freezes you out of having input on these major expenses.

The most recent long range facility plan is shown. It was created in years past, and I can only believe that costs have increased since it was originally prepared.

On the plan, you'll see millions of dollars of proposed spending for a theater, addition to the gym, locker rooms, wrestling rooms, a new competition gym, 20 new classrooms, and possible destruction of the historic high school.

If you believe that the tax and spend cycle needs to end, I urge you to attend the community outreach meeting and make your voice heard.

Sincerely,

David McPhillips
Chairman-Butler County Republicans

11/06/2019

Santa at St. Joseph's Villa & Court and David Place, and candids from the Hallmark Holiday event

11/04/2019

It's not even Halloween yet, but the town of David City has already decked its halls in Christmas fashion.

10/26/2019

04/28/2019

Here’s Zach searching David City’s torn up streets for treasure.

The street tear out just continues to give up the goods! I've made a lot of great finds my past few trips there. The project is not even close to being over ...

04/03/2019

The situation is offensive but destroying the house is only a harsh, short-sighted fix for the problem - the equivalent of the old adage “cutting off your nose to spite your face.”

If no one can change the course of events, when the time deadline runs out, it will only be a matter of a few hours and all that will be left is a cloud of dust and a big sad hole in the ground. Every board, every piece of trim in that house was cut with a handsaw - it could all just be splinters.

Surely some better 11th hour solution can be found. I truly hope so. Please think of some way to save [rescue] this beauty for future generations to enjoy. Please.

David Wiebe

Woodstock, New York

Regarding the Victorian Zeillinger House, also known as the Chauncey Taylor house on Fourth Street, which has a looming demolition order pending, I am writing to implore all those with

03/09/2019

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