During Mike Cooper’s presentation he said that the city doesn’t annex people to take in more municipal property taxes, and almost the entire crowd in attendance laughed out loud. After chair Kiley calmed the crowd down, Cooper did admit they do collect more property taxes, but that wasn’t the purpose. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
One of the other members of the task force gets applauded because she believes the city benefits from annexation for certain aspects, like curb and gutter and sidewalks, so they should pay for those things.
Mr. Davis, another task force member suggested some OUTSIDE experts should also be making some recommendations besides city staff so there is a compromise. Councilor Selberg agreed that it was a good idea.
More meetings will be added to the agenda in the future.
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The meeting got real interesting when the Assistant City Attorney and a task force member could not come to terms on ADA issues. Too funny, he wants her to commit and she is fighting it with wrong information.
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The next meeting of the Annexation Task Force will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, 2017, in the Council Chambers at Carnegie Town Hall, 235 West Tenth Street. The public is welcome to attend. The meeting will be web streamed live on www.siouxfalls.org as well as televised live on cable channel CityLink.
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The mayor of all he knows says the people are coming with pitchforks. We ask you to watch this respectful group of 300 Sioux Falls citizens and neighbors to find any pitchforks. There weren’t any.
Just because the undemocratic rudderless leadership of Sioux Falls is upset with their lack of inclusion da mayor tells a radio host we citizens are taking over with pitchforks to get our way. And we wonder why Washington is screwed up when all we have to do is look at the bully ways our local government is trying to do things. Isn’t it too bad our citizens are asking for their right to be upheld?
The April 26, 2017 second meeting of the Annexation Task Force led by Councilor Rick Kiley is a good example of letting the people in on the discourse. We congratulate him on extending the meeting an hour to let the audience partake.
An audience member decided to bring a reminders of the hubris and arrogance of da mayor’s statement by bringing printed out pitchforks. It was a funny and cute polite response to a stupid remark, showing a lack of real leadership.
The people of Sioux Falls are showing they are tired of living in a one size fits all, beige Orwellian world of doublespeak. When da mayor speaks of running for statewide office, changing his party because it might be hard to win, then changes his bullheaded stance on annexation because it might hard, then can’t make up his mind on which higher office he is going after because it might be hard, how do you think he would do in any future campaign after he has shown he would rather switch than fight?
Biff from Back to the Future comes to mind, an arrogant bully who will use his intimidation power to get his way or run away.
I guess a pitchfork flyer was being passed around at the annex meeting on Wednesday. I am assuming it was in response to the mayor’s comments on the B-N-B show on Tuesday that the citizens who attended the first annex meeting were trying to cause a ‘crap storm’ by bringing their ‘pitchforks and torches’ to which Greg and Mike had a good chuckle.
As I have been told, this was a CITIZEN’s idea that did not come from anyone on the city council, or for that matter from me or Cameraman Bruce. I had to quell those rumors, since it seems someone in the administration is spreading a little ‘crap’ themselves.
(I am trying to get a picture of the original flyer)
