Does anyone know why Heinecke voted against the Safe Routes to School project?
Apparently you don't understand this situation. Suppose you unexpectedly were given $200. You could spend it, put it in savings (lower the tax levy), or pay down some sort of debt (pension debt or some other). The alderman are not even considering spending it on something new. Their deciding whether to lower our taxes or use it pay down some debt. If the choice is to pay some off debt, then the second choice is which debt. If you're not smart enough to participate in a democracy, then DON'T!!
The museum is open about 70 hours per year, that's not much. And then during the winter, they rent out storage space to their members. Why should 30 people be able to rent space in a public building without any oversight and control of the properly elected board? All of the other groups that manage or maintain buildings in the parks have agreements, why shouldn't the park board force this group to live by the same standards? They've tried to reach an agreement, but the auto club insists they own the building, which is legally impossible. You can't own a building in a park, especially with no written agreement. So, the board wants them to leave, and then will work on an official agreement in the spring and the auto club can make any claims about previous events.
The Park District has written agreements with many other organizations, so why do you think they don't have one with the car club? The Park District offered to negotiate an agreement with the club, but the club wouldn't agree to the terms. The car club didn't think the Park District would follow thru with the eviction, and now club has boxed themselves in a corner. Kudos to the Park District for not giving in to a small group who's main objective it to have a place to keep their cars.
Phil, you would have done the same thing at the fire department.
I'm must be missing something, but the article above says "50 devices located in 96 establishments." Those numbers may not change the discussion etc, but still curious how that happens. Are some machines relocated frequently?
If you stop or slow down the flow of water, the sediment will "fall out" and become silt. A land bridge would cause the upper bay to be entirely "backwater" with no current, and the upper bay would become even worse than it is now. The water needs to flow through the bay in order to have any chance of keeping the bay open. And, Cedar Creek empties into the upper bay, above the bridge, so where would all of that water go?
I'm sure QPD will say that the funding for this comes from a special source (ie grant), but if manpower is such an issue, why have officers do this? According to the chief, officers are working overtime and long hours, why put effort into this when their energy and time could be doing something more important?
The main reason for the "jungle" on the west side is that the river current is close to the shore. It's not safe for people to wade into the water on the west side of the island, so to discourage people from going over there they have left nature (jungle) reclaim that space.
TFM has driven morale into the dirt. Its so much more than budget, most experienced government employees can adapt to budget cuts, but the lack of leadership and trust in TFM is becoming a real problem. The temper tantrums and gloating are wearing people out. TFM has burned enough bridges, that now its almost pathetic because TFM has so few people he can trust to help solve problems. Thank God we haven't had a major flood with TFM in office because he his poor leadership skills would be exposed to many more people.
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