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Sioux Falls City Councilors Neitzert, Stehly and Starr featured on Jon Michael’s forum

l3wis December 1, 2016 0Comments

City Council membersÂ Greg Neitzert, Pat Starr, and TheresaÂ Stehly talk with Public Affairs Director, Jon Michaels, about snow plowing, the no-smoke proposals, and many ideas they brought back from a national convention of city officials in Pittsburgh. Â Theresa Stehly liked some cool traffic speed indicator signs, budget ideas and an interesting public checkbook on-line.

It was refreshing to hear councilors talk about transparency in government, especially when it comes to the city’s budget and bank account. For a moment, I wondered ifÂ these were Sioux Falls city councilors 🙂

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Sioux Falls City Councilors to attend the National League of Cities conference

l3wis November 12, 2016 6Comments

Councilors Neitzert, Starr and Stehly will be attending the conference this year next week. I think they will bring back a wealth of great information we can grow on in our city. Hopefully they won’t ’embarrass’ us 🙂

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Proud of these three Sioux Falls city councilors

l3wis November 2, 2016 7Comments

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While I understand the argument of singling out individual businesses, (FFL 1:20:30) I believe these councilors had a right to take a personal look at a business that is making oodles of money while using tax dollars on a high number of police calls. And for disclosure, besides the three councilors, there were 4 citizens present watching what was going on. Since the license renewal did pass 7-1, this was more of a warning to Wiley’s that we are watching. I also found it strange that Erickson didn’t have an issue with the police calls, but just a few short months ago she took them to task over smoking violations. Ironically, I checked out that situation Friday night. What Wiley’s essentially has is a smoking room with it’s own bar and very large doors that open up to an outside heated patio. Basically a 4-season room for smokers.

I am very proud them taking a stand, especially Pat and Greg for standing up to the mayor and councilor Erpenbach. If anyone should be embarrassed, it should be her.

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Should the city gift the old ice complex to the Glory House?

l3wis September 21, 2016 4Comments

As I argued last night at the city council meeting during public input, the city would have true value in the old building by selling it or gifting it to the Glory House;

“One of the options is to allow the Glory House to expand. The Glory House is just adjacent to this piece of property,” Starr said.

The Glory House, which helps former inmates find jobs to get back on their feet and transition back into society, is already working with a developer to tear down the old building and construct 50 to 75 affordable housing units here.

“Over 80% of the people who graduate from the Glory House have full time jobs, what they’re having difficulties with is being able to find a place to live,” Starr said.

“We’re not in the land speculating business, we’re in the human services business as far as I’m concerned,” Starr said.

As I said last night, this is truly a ‘value’ issue for taxpayers. By keeping former ex-cons out of jail, we save the taxpayers money, a lot of money. It only makes sense to sell them the property. Even Erpenbach nodded her head at me in agreement while speaking of the issue.Â I think this will get a majority of the council to approve this sale. Ironically, while everyone is throwing Stehly under the bus, her and Starr were the first to look into this issue.

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