When dropping your kids off at school, keep in mind that you are sharing the road with 61 year old men with slow brains.
Issue 22 in 2 (or about 3 minutes)
My friend tells me that to get the message across I needed to explain my position on Issue 22 in 2 minutes. This is about 3 minutes long -- but I am talking fast.
Stop Council from destroying our police and fire services
Don't let council destroy police and fire funding like school boards destroyed their ability to fund our schools!
In the 1980s, 90s and 2000s schools got levies passed by tugging at our hearts showing us the extremely low salaries of beginning teachers. But School boards never raised the salaries of beginning teachers and we all felt deceived. 20 years later and our school system is a mess because people never forgave them.
Today our City Council tells us we have to pass the renewal income tax levy or they will have to cut police and fire services. Yet they could easily pay for Fire and Police using the record amount of money they are getting through the General Fund. Don't let them destroy our police and fire services. This election vote no on Issue 22 and wait to renew until our council stops threatening to forever ruin our ability to fund the police.
When I saw these two playing on my way to pick up my daughter, it made my day. That was tempered when I came over and saw the courts are getting into disrepair.
Some may recall that I was one of the proponents of transforming an old basketball court into some picklball courts. To my embarrassment,, that transformation ended up being twice as expensive as it should have been. That was proven by the cost the city paid when they resurfaced The courts at Thomas Cloud. And there was a very poor decision to try and squeeze 6 courts into the available space. With the fences where they are practically no one will play on the courts because they are in the way of play. I made the suggestion 5 years ago to take fence down and put temporary fences up making it so there are 3 playable courts.
That could still be done this year for little cost. Now that the courts need resurfaced again already, I hope a thoughtful plan that results in optimizing the space and cost is put in place to make pickleball a reality there in Community Park.
As an aside, the basketball courts right next door get used practically every day. There were even kids playing when I made this video. It is wrong that those courts are in the shape they are in.
Up until now I have had a hard time listening to City Council meetings because I thought Mayor Gore was purposely trying to deceive residents with all the misinformation he provides. I've watched this clip a dozen times already and each time laugh audibly at how ridiculous it was for me to conclude he was aware he was spreading misinformation.
Annexation guidance by City Attoney
In discussing the legislation saying the city has the resources to provide services to the proposed annexed area, on Sept 7 the City attorney told council --- This does not commit the city to the annexation but this vote would be the time to see which way the council really wants to go.
I have a conspiracy theory that council doesn't really want the public to know what's going on. I know I am not the only one that has provided yearly feedback about the volume of the online videos. I finally broke down and bought amplified speakers for my computer which arrived this morning.
Ironically, this agenda item from the last work session is the first I listened to after hooking them up. --- 4 hours into the meeting, the Mayor tells those citizens that were there to discuss this issue, he is not prepared to talk about it. --- as a conciliation they did talk for 30 more minutes. http://huberheightsoh.new.swagit.com/videos/128625#21391630
Vote no on Issue 29
This amendment makes it faster to pass resolutions but offers no checks and balances for important issues.
