The Sioux Falls wambulance oversight board met on December 30, 2016 even though the website said cancelled. Never quite sure what the REMSA Board is up to, Cameraman Bruce decided to show up with you guessed it, his cameras.
First off Mr. Brennan claims he has to pull up shop of DLC and his businesses because of the success of the 36% cap passing. This may well be true.
The news media has reported that it may be that the Badlands businesses may not have been viable on there own. This may well be also true.
But could there be a third scenario? As Brennan has said, he has to close not only his DLC’s in South Dakota but his businesses.
Is what he is really saying, as the media has suggested that the DLC in South Dakota was floating his Badland businesses because they could not float themselves?
But the bigger question is, can business A float business B legally (for tax purposes, losses, profits, etc.) if they are owned by the same person but under different umbrellas?
Don’t know, but one wonders if the IRS is asking the same questions.
Lots of Parking, don’t run over a cone.
Let’s wrap of 2016, because I am already over it;
• After IM 22 passes, Kristi Noem freaks out and decides to tell us just days after she was elected to congress that she is running for governor. She really just needed to transfer her warchest.
• The state theater still isn’t finished. I’m sure I will be writing this same thing next year, and the year after that and the . . .
• The state’s top budget analyst was let go. We are not told why, but the governor reassures us there is no need for an ethics commission in state government.
• The mayor tells B-N-B on his radio show he sympathizes with Donald Trump on the way the media treats him. A university study determined that Hillary lied about 35% of the time on the campaign stump, Trump lied 70% of the time. We all have our idols I guess.
• The city council amends the city smoking ban. Just one of many proposals by the administration that will fail this coming year.
• During a Downtown design standards meeting, a developer who had interest in the Copper Lounge building said he didn’t believe DT needed standards and that developer should be able to do what they want. A few days later, the Copper Lounge building collapsed.
• The Sioux Falls planning department tries to annex a lone house next to a barn and farm yard. The deferral is set for Tuesday night.
• Sales tax revenues in Sioux Falls had the lowest returns in years. But hey, we are building like a son-no-bitch.
There you have it, hopefully 2017 will be more interesting.
I think this quote says it best that most people don’t care Mr. Brennan is leaving Sioux Falls,
He remains a devoted fan of the KBAD radio station, which features the “Morning Crash†show and combines Brennan’s affinity for marketing and hard-rocking hair bands.
“I was listening on the way over here,†he says, sitting up excitedly at the DLC office. “From my house to here I think I heard Slave Raider, Megadeth, April Wine and Ratt, and I was like, ‘This is the best station ever, dude!’â€
I’ve learned the hard way over the years that no matter how much money you have, you can’t buy taste. You must be willing to except the fact that not everyone likes what you like, and you shouldn’t be offended by it. While I don’t know Chuck, I’m certainly not mad at him for leaving, he can’t make a buck here anymore, so he is leaving. It’s no different then Long John Silvers closing in Sioux Falls.
Well let’s get a second helping;
• Water and Sewer rates are raised again, and again, and again.
• Stormland TV does several stories throughout the year about the late school start date, but fails to show any evidence that the late date has any ill affects on the students. I guess the new super has been known to tell people recently, “It doesn’t matter when school starts, we will work with any date.” And that’s coming from the top dog.
• The mayor continues to ignore the violent crime increase in town, eventually blaming mental illness without offering a plan.
• The city of Sioux Falls goes through two diversity directors within a couple of months. Still no word if a permanent person has been picked yet.
• The mayor gets out of taking the stand in an important hearing by getting an ’emergency’ colonoscopy. Yeah, I know, several jokes there.
• While mayor Mike has no problem cutting people off after 5 minutes, he goes on over a 9 minute rant at the Minnehaha County Commission meeting during public input about saving his Lake Home’s swamp.
• Mike gets mad at the media for asking him if he controls the thermostat at Carnegie, but has NEVER answered the question to this day.
• Cameraman Bruce and I get press access to Sanders, Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton rallies yet the city still refuses to treat us like press.
• Touchmark at All Saints finally gets approval from the city council to build their expansion (and it is quite beautiful) now hopefully the tears will stop flowing down Phillips Avenue.
• The Terrace Park Neighborhood association is successful in stopping the destruction of paver stones, the city turns around and punishing them by putting off improvements for several years.
• While city hall celebrates the $27 million dollar RR relocation project it still does nothing to stop rail traffic through DT, in fact it will make it more frequent.
• The Lacey Neighborhood successfully fights the first bout with city hall over a development. They break with tradition by testifying on the topic before a first reading to council.
• We lose the battle with stopping the $25 million dollar city administration building allowing ONE PERSON to decide on borrowing the money.
• Andra Day rocks JazzFest.
• Detroit Lewis celebrates 25 years in this fine city, August 2016.
• I predict back in August that Huether may switch to independent.
• The F-35 Lemon Noise machine doesn’t pick Sioux Falls as a base option, and we can all hear a little better.
• After councilor Stehly gets gaveled by Council chair Rolfing, she comes back stronger then ever.
• City of Sioux Falls Health Department, REMSA and Paramedics Plus decide to implement a secret strategy for ambulance service. We still have no idea what it is.
• After millions of state and city taxdollars are dedicated to foundation park, the proposed developments pull out with NO signed purchase agreements.
• The Jesus Plows return while the city makes a maternity clothing store paint over carictures of pregnant women. Nobody can see the plows anyway since they have been sitting in a parking lot so far this winter.
• Like a cheap whore, the city parks department sells Spellerberg Park signage to a cable company setting precendent.
• Trump wins the Electoral College becoming the 45th president of the United States and the bott0m falls out of the SD Democratic Party, then they pat themselves on the back.
• The Indoor Aquatic Center opens with a package of lies and low attendance numbers.
• The city’s only daily paper has huge shakeups. Hopefully they recover.
• A sleepy DT neighborhood tries to stop a modest church sign, until the council approves it.
• The wind haters continue to win in Lincoln County, but it may go to a public vote.
• The city council decides to visit a local watering hole for some fish bowl drinks. One councilor that did not attend was embarrassed she wasn’t invited.
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