Greg Neizert

Sioux Falls City Councilor Greg Neitzert on the Administration Building

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What can we say about Greg Neitzert’s impassioned plea on August 2, 2016 to overturn the mayor’s veto of July 27, 2016 other than it was amazing.

The Romantix Annex Overflow Office Building does not need to be built.

Consider this: Building new is most expensive option. Just ask Director Turbak (Info Meeting 2/23/2016) – “If you’re looking and hinging a decision on is it going to pencil out a net savings to the city, I think clearly it’s not if we have a new building”

Listen to Greg’s plea and them consider as a few who left the meeting on that Tuesday evening asking us why no one else has ever laid out this information before.

We have tried, but Greg did it. As he tells us, get a petition, sign a petition and help kill this building.

Letters; Sioux Falls City Councilors Stehly and Neitzert

Kermit Staggers defends Stehly, it’s really freaking cold in Carnegie;

I remember many of my colleagues and citizens attending the meetings and expressing their concerns over the cold temperature in the chamber. I have always been amazed that the council has been denied the right to choose the temperature of its own facility.

And we still don’t have an answer from the mayor if he runs the thermostat.

Neitzert talks about his disappointment in the EC settlement secrecy case;

Effectively, whenever the city engages in some sort of transaction with another party and something occurs that might be embarrassing or damaging to the city, they can withhold details from the public by doing nothing more than entering into a contract with the other party and adding a confidentiality clause.

And the administration (Huether) has been very successful at it during his term.

City Councilor-Elect Greg Neitzert Reiterates His Priorities on Installation Day

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For Immediate Release

 

Release Date:  May 17, 2016

Contact:  Greg Neitzert (pronounced Nite-Cert)

Phone:  605-929-9118 

Web: http://www.gregforcouncil.com

Email:  GNeitzert@siouxfalls.org

 

 

City Councilor-Elect Greg Neitzert Reiterates His Priorities on Installation Day

 

“On the day I officially will be sworn in to represent the Northwest District of Sioux Falls, I felt it was important to reiterate and restate my main priorities as a City Councilor” says Greg Neitzert.  “These priorities were shaped by what I heard from the hundreds of citizens I met going door to door over the last several months.”

 

Greg Neitzert’s Main Priorities: Repair and Rebuild Roads, Explore Alternatives to the Current Administration Building Proposal, Fiscally Conservative Leadership, Affordable Housing, Quality of Life Everyone Can Afford, Transparency, and Zoning to Protect Neighborhoods

 

  1. Repairing and Rebuilding our roads is a top priority.  “I saw firsthand the condition of many of our local roads as I walked the neighborhoods of the Northwest district.  We need to accelerate the reconstruction of our neighborhood roads,” says Greg Neitzert.

 

  1. “We need to explore alternatives to the current administration building proposal.  We need to protect the taxpayer dollar and prioritize our precious second penny sales tax funds,” says Greg Neitzert.

 

  1. I will bring fiscally conservative leadership to the city council,” says Greg Neitzert.  “That means keeping our debt in check, as well as holding the line on user fees and taxes.  Our citizens, particularly those on fixed incomes, have been pinched over the last several years.”

 

  1. “We need to do what we can to address our shortage of affordable housing in Sioux Falls,” says Greg Neitzert.  “While many of the factors are market-based and out of the control of city government, there are factors we can control as a city.  We need to remember that every time we raise user fees and taxes, we make the problem worse.”

 

  1. “As a city, we need to provide a quality of life everyone can afford,” says Greg Neitzert.  “Our city has a river greenway and bike trail system that is the envy of other cities throughout the nation.  We need to expand the bike trail and protect and enhance our river greenway.  We need to add more parks and outdoor pools in the outer areas of the city, including the Northwest district.”

 

  1. “Transparency in government builds trust with the public, there is nothing to hide and there is no reason for secrecy.” says Greg Neitzert.

 

  1. “We need to protect and preserve neighborhoods with zoning,” says Greg Neitzert.  “We need to provide a business friendly climate that promotes growth and prosperity, while at the same time providing residential uses with maximum protection.  As existing commercial development expands, we must preserve the unique character of our neighborhoods and provide appropriate and sufficient land use transitions and buffering.”

 

NOTE:  The Installation Ceremony will take place at 2pm on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at Carnegie Town Hall, 235 W. 10th St, Sioux Falls, SD.