Went in to the city council meeting last night at 5pm for the committee and council meeting. It was not raining that hard, man left early around 9pm and it was pouring sheets. Inside the council there was a wind storm. The council chose to have pete and re-pete show up a lot. Again I don't I hate when the councilors all feel the need to say the same thing over and over again why do you need to repeat it 8 or 9 times. Just vote on the issue. This is a waste of time and needlessly extends a meeting. Look at last nights meeting at least four resolution drew comments from at least eight councilors all saying the same. This extending the conversation to 10 to 15 minutes per resolution.
Now on to the meeting notes. First I must say this about the park point issue that was tabled. Council President Linda Krug said before the meeting started that they would table that resolution (9-0 vote) and the they would not allow speakers. I don't like that even when tabling citizens should have the right to be heard, what should have been before tabling is a suspend of the rules to hear from speakers on the issue. Now the group that came to speak could have said okay with the table we will just have one person speak but they did not even get that opportunity. Just a bad presidency I think.
Second was the opportunity for citizens to speak, I took the opportunity to speak on the street fee again, yes councilor Julsrud I will not shut up and go away. In fact I brought up last night and restated my opinion that this would drive seniors out of homes or they would have to make drastic changes to the way they live. Many of the seniors live on "fixed" incomes you are making chose food or streets. Many of the councilors have championed for seniors yet any chance they get they vote for things that harm these citizens. I also mentioned we now have no idea what the plan is for streets. I have asked the councilors what is the current plan in email only getting stay tuned back. Mum seems to be the word on this issue currently keep the citizens in the dark till it's in writing and the council has it's mind made up regardless of what the citizens have to say.
Then came many of the pete and re-pete issues. resolutions 0214, 0215, 0226 all dealing with low income tax money from the state, now the council needed to accept these resolution for them to be able to continue in the process.
Two of the three did pass the first 0214 this project was for the gateway tower redevelopment. This project has 150 units 80 will remain as they stand 70 will be made available to those who have jobs and make entry level pay. The discussion here was mainly about management. It passed 7-2 councilors Hanson and Fosle voting no on it.
The other that was the Krozy bar redevelopment ick is all I can say this building needs to come down. The conversation also was about management, the developer did say Eric Ringsred would have nothing to do with the building. Councilors also talked about having to take back that area of town. bring up perhaps low income can't be isolated to that area of town. They did however pass it 6-3.
Other interesting conversation for the developer the building is 127 years old and was building that has always been on that houses low income folks. It will have 40 units 4 of which will homeless units. the remaining will be workforce units. The building fell victim to the a fire in 1910.
No comments:
Post a Comment