Besides the two letters below, I guess Cindy Heiberger received an envelope addressed to her with Jeff Barth’s name on the enclosed letter.
How can we even depend on safe elections when our auditor’s office can’t even stuff an envelope properly?
A South DaCola foot soldier told me last night that they have access to the 4th floor patios of the Phillips Lofts facing east, which overlooks the construction grounds of the Levitt. They said recently there has been some curious drainage of the grounds and ‘oily like’ substances being drained from the property.
I have NO idea what this would be.
I do know that the main reason why NO development has happened on the East side of Phillips to the Falls is because of the years of contamination on that land, and that in order to even use it as a park they had to cover some of the contaminated earth. I almost wonder if they are doing more extensive cleanup?
Funny how these things go? When mayoral candidates are running for office they claim to be ‘bi-partisan’ than they go and do things like this after elected. If I was Paul I would have just quietly sent Noem a check.
They will discuss the department budgets of Finance, HR, Central Services, Police Fire and Public Parking
Regular City Council Meeting – 7 PM
Item #1, Approval of Contracts. Here we go again, another expensive consultant ($200K) to give us a Master Strategic Plan on our Parks. 1) We just did one a few years ago, why can’t we just update that plan and make some small tweaks 2) We pay our parks director a lot of dough, shouldn’t it be a job requirement for him to do the research with his staff and put together a report himself?
We also are spending $177K to put a fence around the RR redevelopment area. Why didn’t we set aside some of that $37 million for the fence, or make BN pay for it or better yet the developers of the land?
#42, 1st Reading, City council wants to be aware of change orders over $25K from CMAR’s. While this is a good idea, we really shouldn’t be using CMARs, there is way to much secrecy with them. We found out the hard way with the Denty and how we never really got a $1 million dollar settlement, just our money back.
#43, 1st Reading, Creating an overlay district for the RR redevelopment area. I really don’t know much about this and I wish we would have gotten an informational about this ordinance.
#44, 1st Reading, Surplus property within the RR redevelopment area. Again, I wish we would have had an informational explaining this.
#46, Resolution, they are discussing whether to allow the property behind the Huey to be surplus. Not only has the Equity Square people to the North fight this because of access but I guess now the Phillips Hotel to the South now is also objecting due to access. This may get deferred, again.
Planning Commission – 6 PM – Aug 8
Item #11, Lifescape parking lot rezone. I expect a lot of public testimony against this move.
Items #13 & 14, More Telephone Booth Casinos.
Item #16, Presentation on Buffer Yard Effectiveness
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