Delbridge group to meet on Friday, maybe
l3wis So how long before this meeting is mysteriously canceled because it just appeared by itself on the agenda. It was magic. LMFAO. At least they figured out where the agenda page was this time.
Whats up with the Cat Neuter dude and other public input funnies
Today at the informational meeting the consultants for the Riverline District recommended we build a new convention center. Well isn’t that funny? When you pay a consultant they usually tell you what you want to hear. Well Craig Lloyd is involved with the land deal, and rumor has it that an elected official with the City of Sioux Falls’ spouse is brokering the deal. Can you say massive conflict of interest!!!! (I’m still collecting information on that, hopefully have an update soon).
Well Mr. Lloyd decided to step to the microphone at public input and proceed to tell the council and public that unless we rid ourselves of the homeless downtown none of this development will happen. Well Craig, what have you contributed to the solution? You would think someone who has received millions in tax rebates and other housing grants would throw a couple bucks at the solution? Oh that’s right, he is only interested in taking.
I have a new nickname for these folks, The Original Downtown Panhandlers!
Curt Soehl asked during the presentation why we got rid of the trolleys because we could have used them to run shuttles from the Convention Center to Downtown. Another empty promise from the last mayor.
But the public input at the regular council meeting was glorious.
One gentleman asked why we have a policy of closing the indoor aquatic center when there is lightning outside. He even researched other cities and NONE of them have the same policy. Can’t wait to hear the response. I told someone it is because city staff is F’ING LAZY and any excuse they can have to NOT work they will find it. A former building inspector told me once that the forestry manager spends 60 hours a week trying to get out of 40 hours of work (he is retired now). I have noticed that after covid ended and the city employees went back to regular office hours they are still in covid mode. Tell me the last time you have seen a city employee besides mowing grass or filling potholes?
Tim Stanga returned to inform the council that his grandson was shot with a pellet gun and the cops never showed up. He said after 30 minutes, an officer called him and said, “Do you need an ambulance.” and he responded, “NO! I need you to come to my house and file a report because this is assault.” The officer responed, “You need to tell the neighbor kids to stop shooting your grandson.” Must of learned that directive in cop training.
A lady from Elkpoint who had showed up before to talk about the lack of access to our city government (YAH THINK!?) complained about the fact when you go to city hall you are greeted by an officer. She said it wasn’t very friendly and welcoming. Just to remind folks, we have security at city hall because some random transient walked into Paul’s office early in his first term and stole a Coke, and they had him on camera. Leave it to Poops to turn a funny incident into a paranoid episode of terror and danger, you know, kind of like that RACIST mural he rejected. Tone Deaf!
And finally the cat neuter dude showed up. So he catches stray cats, neuters them and then throws them back in the wild.
What do you think?
Should we just neuter them or should we euthanize them and be done with it? I am on the fence about it because stray cats carry many diseases that they can pass on to household pets, some are deadly, so I’m not sure what we are accomplishing besides putting a bunch of sterile diseased cats back onto the streets. Maybe one of my smartass readers can convince me otherwise.
UPDATE: Sioux Falls City Council votes for The Dakota Scout as legal paper without investor info
UPDATE: Looks like the Sioux Falls School Board is just as ignorant as the city council, approving the Dakota Scout as their legal paper. I know how this scenario is going to play out, the AG is probably currently writing an opinion that exonerates the city and any other entity from wrongdoing. The problem is that the AG is NOT a judge and doesn’t run a court of law, he is essentially an armchair judge and has NO legal authority in this matter except to prosecute.
Mike Zitterich made this comment on the Scab and he makes a good point, they were printing legal notices before July 1st. The law didn’t go into effect until then, so how could they be following state law? It’s clear it was broken;
Do not take this out of context, I am a huge fan of the Dakota Scout, and I am proud that we rewarded the city contract to them, however, the Argus may actually have a real clear, and winning case here. I am not sure who gives the city government legal advice, but the “law” in question, that paved the way to grant the Dakota Scout the right to publish legal notices for cities and counties does NOT (did not) go into effect until July 1st. If true, by law, the State Government was not allowed to permit, nor license the Dakota Scout to do so. It was simply adopted by the legislature, and had to clear the Judicial Review Period, clearing any such challenges from the people. And that process does not end until June 30th, or 90 days after the Legislative Session which is January 15 to March 15, whereas Veto Days are March 27-30th. There was no legal challenge, nor petitions filed, so that part is fine, but, the Secretary of State could not clear the Dakota Scout until after July 1st …. that is a clear problem here…The City will almost for sure be punished for this, jumping of the gun, but lets pray a compromise can be found, that allows the Dakota Scout to officially become the paper of choice for all legal notices.
Oh, there will be a compromise . . .
Here is a copy of their SOS filing (notice the investor data is missing). Someone told me it is because the state won’t scan the back of docs, only the front. Or the Scab didn’t send the data. Not sure, but it would be nice to see who the investor’s are. Oh, and legally they were supposed to supply that information in December.
Notice the monthly views. Heck, DaCola even competes with that . . . and I don’t have a print version.
64K monthly unique users. Maybe the Scab is cheaper because virtually no one is reading it.
Like I said, the Argus has a justifiable lawsuit, unfortunately the judicial system in this state doesn’t lean towards justice, just covering piss poor politician’s asses.
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And you still can’t get it because the SOS website is not functioning correctly. And the investor info wasn’t loaded to the site. What are they hiding?
The Argus is right in suing the city. I told the council privately and publicly they needed the investor information before approving this and they ignored my warnings and now it is biting them in the butt.
I wonder who the investors are and why this is being kept a secret? Well it is only a secret for now, we will soon learn who the partisan investors are. Sneve told me in a nasty text message that;
So who exactly do you think owns this newspaper besides Jonathan and I?
He never did tell me who really owns the paper, and now the city is getting sued over it. This is going to cost the taxpayers a lot of money. I sometimes wonder who is giving the city council legal advice, oh that’s right the guy who had to suddenly leave his last job . . .
I WILL UPDATE THIS POST LATER WITH SOME DOCUMENTATION.
Maybe the City of Sioux Falls could afford eliminating food tax revenue if they weren’t spending so much money on lawsuits
Poops is at it again, chairing an anti-tax cut initiative, which is highly unethical;
Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken is now the chair of a statewide ballot question committee called South Dakotans Against a State Income Tax.
There won’t a state income, typical chicken little crap from these folks. I may vote against the measure but not because I don’t support it, but because our spineless, very uncreative, gutless morons we call our legislature will just increase sales taxes on everything else essentially burdening us with higher taxes on other goods.
There will never be a state income tax and Poops knows it. They will lie their way out of this one just like they did on Rec MJ. The truth is NEVER on Poops side.
What’s that sound? Nothing.
Since the collapse of the train bridge in Sioux City I have been enjoying the sound of NOTHING. Granted, living Downtown Sioux Falls is noisy, traffic and airplanes even without the train whistles, but it has been so pleasant. I have been getting the best sleep of my life because I am not hearing a train whistle every hour from Midnight to 6 AM. The trains are still moving cars around in town, but the major traffic at night has ceased for now.
This is what we could make our downtown, less noisy, if we would just force the trains to put up quiet zones in every road crossing downtown. There is absolutely NO reason those whistles need to blow non-stop all night long.
I’m kind of hoping it takes 5 years to fix the bridge, but my guess is it will be fixed by next year. So enjoy the sound of silence. It is nice.