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Mayor TenHaken to hold presser on rental code enforcement

l3wis 7Comments

This should be entertaining. Apparently Pastor Poops is feeling the pressure. I’m sure he will do what he always does, blame the tenants and tell them not to call him. I hope our diminishing press corps at this event will ask tough questions and hold his feet to the fire. As the chief administrator of our city he should be concerned for all renters (I believe 80% of our population in Sioux Falls rents, I saw this stat recently, but can’t find the reference, so just ‘Trump’ trust me on this one 🙂 Recently the council approved a 170 unit workforce housing complex that was in a perfect location and guess who was basically the only detractor? Another slumlord in town. I told a couple of councilors, ‘He is opposed because it will steal low income renters from him. I used to rent from this family, SLUMLORDS thru and thru.’ It’s time this city cracks down on these folks. I suggest the council put together a set of ordinances that would basically force slumlords out of operation, we will see if they have the courage.

Dean Karsky Downtown Sioux Falls Homeless Mayor TenHaken Minnehaha County Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls Homeless Forum

l3wis 1Comments

I was surprised this was filmed, but after watching I realized that it was a live streaming event on SDPTV, so why didn’t the city livestream on FB and in YT? It often baffles me that the city will hold these live forums or debates and instead of livestreaming in YouTube they record and post later? WHY?! And why did we only get a day notice of the event? It was said during the event that this was in planning for weeks. Also, the moderator, Lori Walsh from SDPTV was only asking the questions sent to her from the audience on TV and in the crowd. Pastor Poops and her clashed when she asked why we can’t go to other communities for solutions, and it was his theme of the evening, blame others, point fingers at others, too big of a problem for him to solve then lastly ignore it because it is NOT my job. He went on to complain that many of these service providers are not sharing data with the SFPD. Why would they? There are Federal laws about peeps personal data and if you are seeking to acquire information about a certain individual you need to go to a judge and get a warrant. Does this guy even understand personal privacy? Just because you are living on the streets or a shelter doesn’t mean the same Federal laws don’t apply to you. It amazed me that most of the panel knew what they were talking about, even the DSS Secretary, Altoff, who tried to cover up sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese years ago, knew what he was talking about. Karksy and Poops, not so much. Paul has this attitude that if it is a problem to big for him to solve, he walks away. Pretty sad for a person who is supposed to be running our city. Still find it ironic when he was running for his first term he told the crowd at Democratic Forum he was going to close the Dudley house because he would solve homelessness in Sioux Falls. As I looked around the crowd, I wasn’t the only one laughing. While I agree with his stance now that this is NOT a problem you solve but manage, you have to at least be doing one of those things, and he is doing neither.

Homeless Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken continues his closed government idiocy

l3wis 0Comments

Boy the hits keep a coming;

While I totally support this forum, I am not sure what Dean Karsky and Poops are going to contribute? That they have virtually done nothing about the issue? But what is even more intriguing is how they rolled this out. I asked two journalists today about when this was originally announced. Both said today, but one said he did know on Monday because he knew someone involved in its production. So you were organizing an event and didn’t bother to tell the public until the day before? Seriously? Don’t think this was an after thought or done by mistake, when you tell people about an event 24 hours before that event it is pretty clear to me you don’t want the public to show up. While I get many orgs were notified, why not notify the people who are affected? THE PUBLIC! Would love to go to this, but it is at an awful time, and since I just learned about it I could not plan for it. Poops, you keep crying about public engagement but at every corner you kick us in the face. Prime example here. I tell folks in the community that you best get used to the panhandlers and homeless because the current administration(s) don’t have the solution or care.

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