SD DOT SD100 Update

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There are some “ongoing” road studies affecting the Sioux Falls area we should understand. They are located HERE.

We got to go to church tonight to find out what is happening to our new by-pass highway, SD100. Oh boy. We find out the chosen route from Madison Street to the EROS / I-90 exit. Don’t be expecting to use the new road anytime soon, we have about 5 years of construction to look forward to.

Note to State DOT and City of Sioux Falls, hold these meetings at Carnegie Town Hall so the nerds amongst us can watch them on SIRE or channel 16. It is the least the City of Sioux Falls can do to let us in on some of the plans affecting our lives. It amazes me the amount of money and energy the city spends on feel good press conferences about drunks in the park and people who get punched in the face over defending a taco restaurant employee, but we can’t simply have a meeting at Carnegie and turn on the video camera? How many millions of dollars have we spent remodeling the joint? Why not use the facility? Instead we hold a Hwy meeting in a church.

It is going to be a while before the south route is even being considered. Looks like Walmart may be waiting until the next decade for the road they want. Call a Whaaabulance.

Why hasn’t Gov. Daugaard endorsed Mike Rounds for senate?

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I have been thinking about this every since the fake governor appeared on the Colbert Report.

No TV commercials. No print ads. No radio. No direct mail. Zilch. Why wouldn’t the former Lt. Governor endorse his former boss? We all know Dennis is going to wallop Wismer. What is he afraid of?

EB-5 seems to be a virus that Dennis is trying to shake. C’mon Dennis. Endorse your former BFF.

Sioux Falls Citizen Survey to remove employees from mailing list

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When I had made the recommendation to the city council to remove city employees from the survey mailing list, I made the assumption that a survey company would already be doing that, I guess not. Legislative advisor and council errand boy, Jim David said this in the informational yesterday (FF 25:30):

. . . request to remove city employees from that list and they seemed agreeable to that . . . no city employee or council member will receive these surveys . . .

I had made the suggestion because I thought it would skew the results a bit if these were being mailed to city employees. You have to realize, they only mail out 3,000 of these and the response rate is around 32%.

What surprised me was that this seems like the first time the city has told the survey company to do this. Not that this is the city’s fault, besides they hire the company to do a fair survey, right? You would think that the company would already be purging those people, but apparently in the past they have not.

I was also a little astonished when Jim said, “they seemed agreeable” Well I damn well hope so. It is unfortunate that a citizen has to point out something that should have been done already by the survey company.

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