IS IT TRUE? Part 2 May 24, 2011
IS IT TRUE that on May 23 at just before noon the City County Observer set a monthly record for pageviews?…that with 8 days left in the month of May that this record will exceed the previous record by roughly 30% by the end of the month?…that we wish to thank our readers for helping us grow?…that some of our new readers are coming to us from posts that have been placed on national forums with links to the CCO story about the Gallup survey that anointed Evansville as the “obesity capital of Americaâ€â€¦that we made the right decision to release that story 2 weeks ahead of everyone else and that sometime being on the leading edge pays off?…that “moderation is the key to mediocrity†and that we have no interest in either?
IS IT TRUE that in a police report from May 23, 2011 there is a complaint that the crew that is doing the curb cuts to reverse the street directions in downtown Evansville peppered a parked car with concrete debris with the high powered saw that is used to cut concrete?…that according to the police reports the crew contained no witnesses to the alleged peppering of the parked car?…that the report states that the damage to the parked car is consistent with what a good peppering from a concrete saw would do?…that the number of accidents, crimes, and incidents that have no witnesses in Evansville is just astounding?…that the often used words from non-witnesses of “I didn’t see nothing†are as much a part of the problem as the bad deeds are?…that for a police department to be more effective a cooperative citizenry is necessary?
IS IT TRUE that some of the candidates for the Evansville City Council are keeping their faces in the public for the summer and others are not?…that being lackadaisical about campaigning when ones opponent is keeping the pedal to the metal is a sure fire way to dig ones political grave?…that continuous visibility is the best way to keep the support base that was built in the hard fought primaries?
IS IT TRUE that the homeowner’s association in the Evansville Historic District has been wanting classy signs to identify the Historic District for several years now?…that the homeowner’s association is paying for half of the costs of the signs and that the City of Evansville is picking up the other half?…that the agreement to do this was easy and that the DMD staff gets high marks for cooperative assistance?…that now that it is time to pay that he Controller’s office of the City of Evansville is not only slow to pay but that they are throwing up road blocks because the bidding process that is followed for giant construction projects like the Arena was not followed?…that getting $10,000 or so of street signs should not be subject to the same bidding rules as the seats in the Arena?…that getting multiple bids from government designated preferred suppliers for a small neighborhood project is counterproductive and raises costs to ridiculous levels?…that the neighborhood association may have gotten the project done for less than their own half of the costs if they just did it instead of bringing local government into the mix?…that the Controller’s office is also blaming their new but slower computer system for the delay?…that new computers should be faster not slower?…that they probably had such a slow bid process to buy the computers that they got last year’s computers at next year’s price?
Has anyone else noticed that we are having trouble getting more than 7 mambers to a Council meeting? Last week Mr Watts and Ms Mosby were absent, this week it was Mr Walker and Mr McGinn. Do they have some kind of rotation for their days off?
and I might be wrong about Mr McGinn, I apologize if I am. But anyway there were only 7 of 9 members in attendance
henry, they probably aren’t showing up because they are mad at you for calling them “mambers”
yeah I can’t type worth a durn and I forgot to spellcheck it, which is how I usually find mt typos. I apologize at this time. I think the root of the problem is that a third of the council fits the title of “lame duck” and may be mailing their job performance in. I hope I’m wrong about this.
done it again, my typos
Watts and Mosby were both sick. It was announced at the meeting . I don’t know about the other two you asked about.
That is true and I can vouch that Dan McGinn is on a well deserved family vacation.
hey henry, don’t sweat it. Keep that word ‘mambers’ in reserve–use it sort of like “mamby/pamby” or “milquetoast” when a former Member takes a weak position on a topic. Demote them from Member to mamber !
Working for a small company that has dealt with the city departments, and had to bid for jobs it’s always amazed me that it takes two city employees to drive around in a city vehicle, burning city gas to get a estimate on the job, the cost alone of the bid process in man hours, wear and tear on the vehicle plus fuel, and the salaries of the two employees would always more then outweigh and cost savings by a lower bid….of course I’m talking small jobs that are expenditures of $100 to $2000 dollars.
I guess I shouldn’t be so amazed when we have city EPA people driving around in Ford Expeditions that might get 10 MPG, I use to think they were all about protecting the environment but that would seem to be not true at all.
Again JMHO
You’ve really got to stop thinking logically when analysing government.
CONGRATS to CCO! Glad to read of your growth.
As to all the unanswered questions concerning the McCurdy’ I believe that the length and breadth of this continuing embarrassment is indicative of sociopathic local governance.
ANY sentient being would feel the shame and do “due-diligence” on this project.
As it stands, I see nothing. Dead from the neck up/numb from the shoulders down. …
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