May 2017
l3wis City of Sioux Falls is now in the RED when it comes to sales tax collection
As long as I have been following these financial reports I have never seen the city dip below last years sales tax collections. While the margin is small enough that we could recover, it will be interesting to watch how our $10,000 raise finance director reacts. Keep cutting those million dollar checks to Paul McCarthy, maybe that will fix it?
FULL REPORT:Â April-2017-finance-report
The Final Countdown
Today marks less than a year left of Huether. We can make it kids, just take a deep breath.
Has Mayor Huether implemented a ‘No Hugs’ policy?
In a very ‘Trumpian’ move the new rumor floating around city hall is that MMM will no longer give hugs, at least at public events where the news has it’s cameras (Trump won’t shake hands). I guess it stems from our local TV stations showing multiple clips of him hugging it out with his former BFF, Jim Sideras at his retirement press conference. He supposedly requested that the TV stations stop showing the clip.
It reminds me of when he requested a local business to take down pictures on FB of him drinking beers at their grand opening party. Hey mayor, Coors Light really isn’t ‘beer’.
More evidence the Sioux Falls School District is discouraging voting
A South DaCola foot solider voted early today at the IPC in the school board election. He requested an absentee ballot for a relative and was told to come back another day because the election official with the School District, Bev Chase, was gone today.
While I don’t take issue with Chase taking a day off, I do take issue with the fact that early voting has begun and she hasn’t trained anyone to handle such a request.
I think we will see a historic low for voter turnout on June 6th, and it’s a disgrace.
