Cory at Madville has a fantastic post with several rambling YouTube videos of Noem trying to explain away what she knows little about.
(BELOW: Cory H., Image, Rapid City Journal) “Oh no, someone is asking me a real question!”
I don’t know if you listened to Sue Roust’s presentation at the informational last Monday, but I thought she talked about a couple of interesting topics.
1) The spreadsheet on public input, &
2) that the CVB (convention visitors) had received an RFP (request for proposal) to host the International Institute of Municipal Clerks Conference in 2016 (see January 30, 2012 Informational meeting).
Our City Clerk’s office had met with the CVB and decided that because May 2016 is, “a busy time with elections and new Council members taking office.” that they would not pursue this invitation from IIMC.
Sue Roust, City Clerk, says, Â “There was a consensus that an even-numbered year was not very good, but that we would watch and see if the RFP comes around for 2017. That might be something worth looking at further.”
As a taxpayer, I was sitting there thinking, “Huh?!” We are most likely going to be asked to subsidize this monstrosity of an Events Center Complex (remember all three facilities: Arena, Convention Center, Events Center) are now going to be considered as one, and we have now TURNED DOWN an invitation to bid on a very high profile conference?! As everyone knows, Mike and his team sold the EC to the voters based on convention business being the MAJOR TENANT!
City Director Mike Cooper was asked if he had been aware of this, and his answer was NO. At the very least, there appears to be a HUGE disconnect and lack of communication going on here.
A separate issue is the redesign of the City’s website. Would we as citizens have access to the same amount of information as we have had in the past, or would this be an attempt to limit information? Unfortunately, it may prove to be the latter. If you have attended Park Board meetings on a regular basis for the past 4-1/2 years, often times, you can go on to the city’s website to view the minutes from past meetings. If you try to do this recently, you find that instead of the past three years being available that there now was only the previous month’s minutes.
The Director of Parks and Rec said the city is in the process of redesigning the website and that it will be rolled out in the next couple of weeks.
If you look at both the Board of Historic Preservation and the Public Parking Advisory Board’s minutes they both still show three years worth of past meeting minutes (they are both examples of the amount of information that should be available vs. the “new look” of the Park Board minutes).
Be on the lookout for missing info on the newly redesigned website.
Who does the governor think he is buffaloing? They continue with the same old argument to bring in new business to SD;
The governor said that to persuade Bel Brands to invest in Brookings, the state had to offer a mix of economic incentives from the Large Project Development Fund while it still exists, and from the new incentive program that’s future is now in doubt because of the referred law.
Bullcrap. Use your brain.
1) The dairy program at SDSU helps with research
2) There is NO state income tax on corporations
3) South Dakota workers are more productive and work for less then their peers (not that this is a good thing for workers in our state, but an incentive for companies to come here.)
I get so tired of this crap that we need to GIVE taxpayer dollars to foreign companies to lure them here, then turn around and defund education and wonder why out-of-state companies have trouble getting skilled workers from within the state . . . hmm. Ever think that some companies don’t want to come to SD because of the lack of skilled labor? I’m just saying.
This is an awesome story about community involvement and organization. More people are becoming wise to the evils of code enforcement in our town and now there is serious backlash. Hopefully the West Sioux neighborhood will form an organization to and push back on the Events Center. Remember people, this thing isn’t built yet, and the bonds haven’t been taken out.
Kermit will be at Benson’s Flea Market this weekend gathering signatures and speaking with constituents about his candidacy. If you are out there, drop by and say hi!
l3wis