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What was on the menu tonight at the Sioux Falls City Council meeting?

l3wis December 10, 2024 19Comments

So some Bible Bumping Homophobes decided to show up to the meeting tonight and start reading from books intended for teenagers in the library. Let’s just say the topic which one of the inputers decided to read from wasn’t about kitties. Or eating kitties, but you get the picture.

The pornographic input continued.

Of course, it is just fictional dialogue between teenagers that want to engage in sexual activity.

This past year when a doctor from Sanford was interviewed about the skyrocketing STD’s in our community she said this about the pandemic. “We don’t teach comprehensive sex education in our schools.” She is spot on. So sometimes kids learn about sex from books.

As for all the gay bashing, that is expected from these folks, but as for the book banning, not on my watch. Instead of trying to remove books from the library that some kids will see as beneficial (since their parents and school isn’t teaching these things) maybe sit down with your kid and have that conversation, or better yet go to the library with your child and pick out books you think would be appropriate. It’s called “Parenting” and that applies to YOUR kids, not the community’s. I’m getting really tired of these ANTI-DEMOCRATIC FASCIST THEOCRATS trying to raise everyone’s kids. Also, it is NONE OF YOUR F’ING BUSINESS how a parent chooses to teach their kids about sex. Maybe they just need to tune into the council meeting and they can learn how to go down and put on a rubber. You all really looked like a bunch of buffoons . . . wait. Maybe they need to read a book once in awhile 🙂 May I recommend the US Constitution. There is no advice on oral sex but you learn a ton about civil liberties which is more helpful then a guide on how to eat kitty, I mean, a kitty.

SPEAKING OF KITTIES

The city council approved catch, neuter and release for stray cats. While I was initially opposed to this, I fully support this now. Ferrel cats are actually good at pest control and if vaccinated for rabies and neutered they are safe to roam our community and provide this service.

SLANDER?

A public inputer came tonight to tell the council about a certain inputer’s slander. We all know who she was talking about. Every week she comes up and slanders someone. I have told her she is going to slander the wrong person and end up being sued. While the council could ask her to stop, it is really out of their control and if she does make some serious allegations that are not true, she is the only one that would be accountable. As I have told the council about how the mayor runs the meetings, you can’t control what is said at the podium, so why bother, you are also not guilty of slander for simply listening to someone slandering someone else. I have a feeling she is going to throw the wrong VIP under the bus at the podium and we will never hear from her again because she will busy talking to a judge and not the council.

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Did Sioux Falls City Councilor Curt Soehl forget what he used to do?

l3wis December 4, 2024 1Comments

Curtist the Blurtist was blurting and curting last night at the city council meeting about the proposed GIGANTIC TRUCK ordinance. Kermit Soehl was the only councilor to vote against it, mainly because Curt owns one of these aircraft carriers on wheels. The big argument of the night was public safety and it is pretty straight forward, but Curt wasn’t having it saying that it would cause an economic downturn in DTSF, as if only big truck drivers are the only ones who spend money downtown. It was quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard a councilor say, oh wait, forgot about Countcilor Jensen. But the shocking part about Curt’s vote is he was a former firefighter and president of the firefighters union. I would think he understands ‘Public Safety’ but I guess once you become a insurance peddler those things don’t matter anymore. I hope Curt runs for mayor, he will end up DEAD LAST!

INFORMATIONAL MEETING

At the informational several folks with Sioux Falls Sustainability(?) made comments about the building codes and how they need to focus on energy efficiency. I have heard several stories about newer apartment buildings in town with little to no insulation. One friend told me his mom was paying $150 a month in heat in a 800 square foot apartment. If that apartment was properly insulated and in the center of the building there should be little heating costs.

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UPDATE II: Where were the F’ing sanders today?!

l3wis November 30, 2024 6Comments

UPDATE II: I guess the street fleet was out at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, FILLING POTHOLES! The only spots they sanded were bridges and after they left at 3:30 PM they were CALLED back at 4:30 PM to sand, and only a handful of drivers responded to the request. But hey, if you drive a public works truck in the parade of lights you are getting $60 bones an hour. Priorities folks. Priorities. I also heard and still trying to verify there was almost 90 traffic accidents on Wednesday. Surprising? NOT.

UPDATE: I was told the sanders were out at 7:30 AM on Wednesday. I would be curious how many because when I drove to work at 4 PM on Cliff Avenue, parts of 41st street and Minnesota were pure ice and packed snow and I didn’t see one single sander out.

I know I have complained about this before, but today was literally a Sh!t show. With the weather today being what is was I decided to drive my car. Bad decision. While I do have studded snow tires on my bike, I try to avoid riding in the dark when conditions are very icy, but I would have probably been safer on my bike. Normally it takes me about 20 minutes to commute to work (5 miles) it took me 30 minutes today in my car, not just because of the terrible condition of the streets but because multiple streets were closed due to accidents.

I get it, there really wasn’t a forecast for this event, but it shouldn’t matter, it is the END OF NOVEMBER! Those sanders should be ready at ALL TIMES!

I did see them out tonight at 9 PM. Thanks . . . dumbasses.

So besides the personal expenditures of folks vehicles being damaged, we have the police and fire respond to these incidents. And now we are paying NIGHT differential to sand the streets. The pennies the city may have saved by not sanding this morning when the event started doesn’t even come close to the amount being spent on responding to these accidents.

Is our Mayor that stupid?

Maybe so, but it also falls back on his lack of leadership. Dave Munson would have been on the horn to Galen Huber at 6 am sending out those sanders. Why? Because public safety should never have a price tag, it is a requirement of municipal government to provide these services thru the taxes we pay. Makes you wonder if the city is in such dire straights that they can’t even send sanders out? We have around $80 million in reserves. We could sand every road in the state for a year and still not spend it all.

I suggested to a councilor that the council write an ordinance that takes control of street plowing and sanding. Basically it would require the street department to act on their own when there is an event and craft the ordinance in a way that pretty much requires them to act immediately to any winter weather event and take that control away from the mayor.

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What is the difference between an Advisory Election and a Bond Election?

l3wis November 27, 2024 2Comments

First the definitions;

An advisory question is a type of ballot measure that is non-binding, meaning the outcome of the ballot measure has no legal effect on a state’s laws. This type of ballot measure is also known as an advisory referendum, advisory vote, or non-binding ballot measure.

A Bond Election is a type of ballot measure in which voters decide whether to authorize a local government to issue bonds to pay for specific projects or services. It is typically used to fund public works projects such as roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. The money raised by the bond issue is usually repaid by raising taxes or other revenue sources. Bond elections are often held in conjunction with other elections, such as municipal or county elections.

We had an advisory election with the Events Center. After citizens voted 54% in favor of building the Denty the city council had to take LEGAL action to take out the bonds, in which they did.

If the election was an actual ‘bond election’ it would have taken a 60% passage to pull the bonds, and since this is a LEGAL election, there would be very little action from the city council to initiate those bonds because the citizens LEGALLY approved the bonds in a LEGAL election.

I am often saying that an advisory vote is actually ILLEGAL because NO LEGAL action is being taken by the public in an election. I have encouraged councilors to have a LEGAL bond election with the Rec bonds and CC bonds. First it makes their job that much easier and secondly you are giving citizens the ability to tax themselves if they choose to (we will need an extra penny sales tax in order for the bonds on the CC to work).

If the city pulls an advisory election on the CC, I encourage any local attorney to sue the city for their ILLEGAL election.

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The Predictability of the Sioux Falls City Council is painful to watch

l3wis November 24, 2024 6Comments

Former City Councilor Big T wrote an excellent letter to the editor about how the citizens need to vote on the new parks’ expenditures.

I would agree, $77 million dollars in expenses needs to be decided by the voters and I am surprised that most of the council wouldn’t be pushing for a special election to approve these bonds. They will sit and cry and wring their hands about making these gigantic decisions when they can just easily call for an election and wipe their hands of it.

But the pool debate and some of the other debates the new council has been having has been soooo predictable. They pretend they are ‘concerned’ about the expenditures then vote for them anyway. They are NOT concerned and all these media games they have been playing (because someone may be running for mayor) is just smoke and mirrors. They have done this for decades before they have to do a big project. They promise all kinds of cost cutting and savings then once the project gets approved there are massive cost overruns and add ons. EVERY SINGLE TIME! Just look at the Ice Bunker Ribbon; Supposed to be a $4 million dollar project that turned into a $16 million dollar project (the donor must have needed a bigger tax write-off).

The council is going to make it ‘LOOK’ like they are on our side when it comes to financial concerns, but if they were TRULY listening, they would call a special election, but just like the predictability of their policy decisions, I will predict they will forgo the special election, and likely do an ILLEGAL advisory election with the Convention Center tying the two projects together to better SELL it to the public. I guarantee this is what they are cooking up. They did it with the Pavilion and Convention Center, it’s an old playbook.

Not only do we need to demand a special election for both projects we need it to be a LEGAL bond election where it only passes with 60% of the vote.

I would love to blog more about city politics, but the predictability lately has been a gigantic yawn. Oh, but I guess the mayoral candidates are all jockeying for positions, but I think the Skabs and their less then flattering boozer texts may be instigating all of this.

What was on the menu tonight at the Sioux Falls City Council meeting?

Did Sioux Falls City Councilor Curt Soehl forget what he used to do?

UPDATE II: Where were the F’ing sanders today?!

What is the difference between an Advisory Election and a Bond Election?

The Predictability of the Sioux Falls City Council is painful to watch

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