South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

August 2010

SF City Council

Mayor Huether thinks the city council shouldn’t be concerned about not having any control over spending

l3wis 7Comments

I personally think the council should approve most money transfers;

Councilors previously have expressed concern over the control of the five-year Capitol Improvement Plan, which outlines and prioritizes major city projects such as fire stations and pool reconstruction. Councilors take time to review and vote on the plan, but the mayor is free to move projects and money around.

Requiring approval would help protect projects prioritized by the council, councilors say.

Which makes sense? Right?

Huether said he thinks the council could be spending time on other areas. “I think there’s more critical things the citizens of Sioux Falls want me and the City Council to address than this.”

Like what? Malt beverage licenses? Think about it. What is the point of having a city council if there is no checks and balances against the mayor when money is being spent? They essentially have no purpose. I have often said that city government is 90% fiscal management and 10% legislative management. Huether is going to lose on this one.

Sioux Falls Washington Pavilion

The Pavilion and their games

l3wis 11Comments

Last Friday (a week ago) exhibits director, Steven Larson, of the Horse Barn Arts Center was ‘terminated’ from the Sioux Empire Arts Council, the organization that was eaten up by the money pit called the Washington Pavilion. But this wasn’t a fine farewell. Before they fired Steve, they asked him to move everything over to the Pavilion the day before, then they canned him the next day. On top of that, they had the gall to ask him this week how to do some simple ass accounting stuff for SEAC. The Pavilion really has no shame. This of course is no surprise, the Pavilion’s attempt all along was to dismantle SEAC, and that will come in the near future, no doubt. But deception comes in baby steps yah know.

But it gets better, not too long ago I posted about how the Pavilion doesn’t post contact info, and guess what, like a rainbow out of the sky, the info appears.

There is way to many secrets in this place, and if they were a private organization, I would not give a fuck. But since they take taxpayer money, something needs to be done. I have often suggested a ‘clean slate’ approach. Time will only tell, but I can guarantee, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

God LifeLight

So is Lifelight’s new location a go?

l3wis 22Comments

Let’s throw a festival honoring the REAL gawd.

While I could care less about Christian music festivals, I still think Lifelight is a good thing for our community, even though the whole thing is based on a fictional tale . . . but I won’t go there. I posted about the new location not to long ago, and I got this comment tonight;

SO there is less than a month until the festival. We live across the highway from where it will be this year. They have NOTHING built. Their fields are currently flooded and un-mowed. Most of the roads leading into the area are gravel or dirt and are in bad condition from the flooding. There is ONE intersection that they expect to move all those people through. I don’t know how they are going to pull any of it off. But that’s ok with us. Nobody asked us if it was ok to have a festival with 300,000 people across the street. We will have to put up barriers to keep drunks off of our property. We will have to put up with the loud music until 2am. Personally, we are disgusted with the whole mess and think that Alan Greene needs to be more considerate and actually ask people living in the area if it is ok to throw a giant party across the street.

Hopefully they will get rained out and move the concert back to the Arena in Sioux Falls where it belongs. Or even Sioux City. Somewhere that doesn’t mind having so many people in one place at once.

Yes, I agree, there should be some considerations of your neighbor “Love thy neighbor.” But the thing that worries me the most is the muddy fields and poorly maintained roads. Maybe gawd is sending a message . . . host your event in Sioux Falls or worship me by my real name, Buddha.

Mayor Hubris Mayor Subprime Mike Huether Mike Huether Sioux Falls

Mayor Huether did something Munson rarely attempted. He informed the public.

l3wis 11Comments

Mark Cotter and Mayor Huether spreading the word (Image; KDLT)

Holy Moly! You mean when you are transparent with the public you get results and cooperation?! Who knew? Instead of trying to sweep the shit (literally) under the rug, Huether chose to inform the public and ask for their help, and in return offers city assistance to the affected. If there was one thing that stuck in my craw about Munson, he was a ‘secrets’ man. I know I rarely hand out kudos to Mayor Hubris, but this time he deserves them (KDLT);

Mayor Mike Huether is still asking residents on the west side of Sioux Falls to limit their use of water Thursday morning, however, the city averted in his words “a major crisis” Up to a million gallons of wastewater had backed up beneath the city of Sioux Falls. Eventually it would have made it’s way back into homes. However city crews were able to find the blockage. They relieved the pressure on the sanitary sewer system and began pumping the wastewater into the storm sewer system. Mayor Mike Huether says, “when this started, we had projected thousands and thousands of homes in Sioux Falls were going to have sewage back up in their basements, right now we’ve got less than 10 that have been reported.” Public Works Director, Mark Cotter says the blockage occurred in a 36-inch sewer line near the South Dakota State Penitentiary. This line serves the west side of Sioux Falls, and that’s why residents are still being urged to limit their use of water this morning. Mark Cotter public works director says- “our next steps, we are mobilizing a professional bypass company. They will physically bypass the wastewater around this segment of pipe between two manholes, once the bypass is done we’ll be able to look inside the pipe, see what’s caused this and then design the right improvements.” City officials say wastewater is going directly to the Big Sioux River, so they are warning people to stay out of the water until further notice.

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