Seems Huether’s favorite place to have a cup of Joe on Saturday morning closed shop. Whisk & Chop is no longer (not sure if the link will work to the non-free online newspaper).
And in other city news, apparently the SF Tennis Association is so strapped for cash they can’t afford to rent a PO Box, you can send all of your correspondence to the mayor’s house;
Subprime Mike will give his state of the city address tomorrow at Carnegie Hall, 1:30 PM sharp (when most people are working real jobs, and won’t hear it live).
Not sure what to expect. I do know that ‘behind the scenes’ there has been some interesting squabbles and posturing. This showed up last night with the Walmart vote.
This story on Stormland TV news is proof of just that;
“What I expect in the next two years is to see the mayor mature as a government leader,” Erpenbach said. “I expect him to begin to understand better that government works differently than a business.”
Wow! I think I would expect to see ‘maturity’ from both of you. When a constituent shows up to an informal meeting at the library and knows more then Michelle about the subject matter, one has to question her ‘maturity’. I will positively say this about Michelle though, she is very assertive, and way more knowledgeable then most of her peers, and the mayor on some accounts, but she is living in a glass house, and I heard the mayor has really big stones.
I first want to say that I am not speculating any wrongdoing by the city. In fact I think the city is doing a good job of spreading out their depositories. Click on this PDF to see them: md (Source: Sioux Falls City Clerk’s office).
Where it gets interesting is when it comes to our current mayor and his past relationship with First Premier Bank. Mayor Huether’s Executive Order No. 11-31 (see attached PDF above) ADDS First Premier as a depository. It is also important to note, FP was added in 2004 under Mayor Munson as one of their ‘Checking Accounts’. I am not an accountant or lawyer. But I am curious what the ‘subtle’ differences there is between the two, if any.
Maybe this is a question of fairness. Maybe it is not. Not sure?
Took this screenshot from KELO-TV. Go to town.
The longer our Mayor is in office the more confused I am about his legacy. You can have a legacy of what you leave behind and a legacy of what you stole from the future. If I spend my kid’s college savings account then my legacy is what I took away from their future. Many observers thought that Huether’s legacy was going to be the events center but the longer he’s in office the more I think his legacy will be what he took from our future versus what he left behind.
So what will his legacy be? No one knows but when you focus on one thing instead of the whole, other parts suffer. I hope I’m wrong. I hope the events center isn’t a flop and I hope we don’t lose $40,000,000 in federal money. As it stands it looks like both of those things are going to happen. He’s fond of saying, “Make it a great day Sioux Falls.” Maybe he should focus less on making it a great day and more on making a great future. That’s what I’m worried about. Quite a legacy.
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