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RealDuPont TV Presents…Day 2
Posted by: | CommentsRealDuPont TV Presents…Day 1
Posted by: | CommentsI was surfing YouTube the other day, getting my fill of British comedy, when I happened upon a show similar to E!’s Talk Soup. There are many similar shows airing in the UK as there is here and certainly no shortage of reality TV. They have Wife Swap, Big Brother, and other familiar titles appearing nightly. What you might not expect to see broadcast here is the “docutainment” of Muslim Driving School.
The more I watched the more riveted I became in the quest for these women to obtain a driver’s license. When I lived in England passing the driver’s test was a long, drawn out ordeal. It was rare that people passed on their first try. It is not like obtaining a license in the US where having a pulse and enough money to pay the fee are all that is required. In England, you are judged on such matters as what gear you had the car in as you entered a roundabout.
Here is installment one of three of Muslim Driving School.
Et tu, Billy Jack?
Posted by: | CommentsCould it be that folk hero of early 1970s cinema, Billy Jack, has come to town to help with the re-negotiation of the 1994 Agreement? If so, he may need to know that he left his hat in the parking lot of America’s Credit Union.
Imagine if we had this sort of righteous indignation in town, willing to put his right foot upside the head of those in charge. It could change the course of the conversations about yellow curb parking, cracking sidewalks, the sign code, and of course, punching a hole in the Vashon aquifer in order to harvest gravel.
Back to reality, we simply don’t settle things in this fashion any more. It would be compromise and working toward consensus. Everyone would have to feel good about the outcome and no foot prints would be left on anyone’s cheek. There would be no bad theme song to inspire us nor would there be a sequel. Nope, what we see is what we get.
If Billy Jack were to come to DuPont Washington today he would be seeking to side with the guys in the ice cream shop or city park in the name of salmon recovery.
Andy Estep Speaks Rhetorically to DuPont City Council
Posted by: | CommentsAfter the Council debate over the city funding “donation” (in exchange for levy support) of the Steilacoom High School reader board, citizen comments was next on the agenda. Andy Estep spoke briefly regarding 1994 Settlement Agreement revision.
Bear in mind that Mr. Estep just sat through the spirited and somewhat passionate discussion regarding child safety, lunatics roaming the streets of Lakewood, and adherence to the DuPont Strategic Plan. It was a plea to talk about real city business, if only for a few minutes.
We have been hearing for months about the MOU and the proposed revision to the 1994 Settlement Agreement and council is being asked a rather simple question regarding their vote on the proposal. Will they consider citizen input, as you would assume, since they are elected representatives of the people of DuPont. Of course, there may be a minority of council members who mistakenly believe that they were elected to govern based on their wisdom and what they consider is best for the city of DuPont. The former method would require canvassing a wide cross-section of citizens for their opinions and concerns; while the latter would require a vote based on their own will; perhaps from prayer, an Ouija board, or several gin and tonics.
Only they know how to breathe from within a vacuum.
The mayor promised that the legislative process that will be used by council will be posted on the city web site, but to date there is nothing as described by her request online. However, since no agreement has been presented to the city, we will just have to wait.
However, I will offer this space to council so that they may solicit their input on the matter. Interested council members can submit to me their written opinions, illustrative materials, and interpretation of the revised agreement. The pay off would be the direct feedback of the five people who still read this site.
Fears of Insanity Drive DuPont WA Council Vote
Posted by: | CommentsSome topics are like Haley’s comet in this town. They just seem to spring up from time to time.
At the last televised council meeting the elected leaders of DuPont Washington discussed approving some funds for an electronic reader board. Sure, I wrote about that at length here in April, 2008! But the reader board funded at the last meeting isn’t here in town, it will actually be in Lakewood, but with an easement to call it Steilacoom, and before you get your panties in a bunch, it is actually for Steilacoom High School.
Confused? Let’s see if I can explain. It seems that the high school would like an electronic reader board. The solution they devised, with presumably adult supervision, was to raise money by doing what most teenagers do: they take the path of least resistance and ask those who have money to make a contribution. And also like teenagers, they don’t just ask one source, they play the whole field and work both ends of the room. I have seen this before, I have a teenaged high school kid living in the house.
It should come as no surprise to you that the first to have their hearts melted by this request would be grandma and grandpa, or in the case of the city council, Penny and Larry. They bought into it full stop about how it would be money well spent because of the *sniff* safety concerns. Penny is convinced that the intersection of Farwest, er, I mean Sentinel Drive and Steilacoom Boulevard is “very, very busy.”
(Note that both Penny and Larry sniff and snivel during their lame justifications? Could it be a tell masking a lie?)
That is correct. Your elected representative thinks that the high school is in danger of someone who is criminally insane, from you know–the asylum, and will somehow hassle the kid changing the message on the reader board. Suspend reality for a minute and pretend that there hasn’t been a manual reader board at this intersection for over 20 years. No, now it is a concern because the high school class of 2011 presented a solution in search of a problem.
The point that I find much more interesting is one that may require some action. Did Councilman Wilcox say he is going to vote to give city funds to the school project in exchange for school board support of an upcoming EMS levy? Named in Wilcox’s scheme is school board member Mike Winkler (Position 2). Just how Mr. Winkler is going to repay this Don Corelonesque favor is yet to be seen. It should be noted, however, that Steilacoom Historical School District superintendant, William Fritz, was in attendance when Wilcox made his pledge of support. No objection or refutation was raised at any time after councilman Wilcox made his statement.
It is one thing to offer support but quite another to hatch a backroom deal. Of course, if pressed, the parties will say that they are not in bed together and that the school board doesn’t know how that $1000 ended up on the dresser.
Thankfully, for the sake of some fiscal sanity, and deference to our strategic plan, Kathleen Trotter courageously voiced her dissent.
Jim Hills also spoke in dissent with an interesting perspective since he is the only person with a vote on this matter who served on both the council and the Steilacoom Historical School District board.
Others also had their say but it came down to a vote. The council was to decide whether to give the students of Steilacoom High School a brand new BMW of a reader board when all we have is less than a KIA budget. The outcome was sadly predictable but the execution suggested that the matter was far from straightforward.
The council ultimately voted to approve giving the school $1000 for their project, making the grand total of monies collected $31,000 dollars without a single car wash, bake sale, or other fundraiser activity. The students, with their adult mentors, successfully lobbied to get the reader board money from the exact same people who would have funded it if it was added to the recent school renovation three years ago; the Steilacoom and DuPont tax payers ended up paying the school, property tax, levy, or general fund is immaterial. However, this time they did so without the benefit of a vote. Pretty clever. I guess it is like finding a $10 bill in the washing machine after someone else does the laundry.
The last five minutes of the video served as a chilling reminder that these same people, those who enjoy playing Santa Claus and who could not figure out what they were voting for, or whose job it was to call roll, are the same people we elected to negotiate, on our behalf, with developers and corporations like CalPortland.
When is the next election?
There is one silver lining, though. At least DuPont screwed Steilacoom by only giving a grand. Our neighbor and partner in schools is on the hook for four thousand more!
Suckers.
A Daisy (Troop) in Springtime
Posted by: | CommentsDuPont’s Daisy Troop 40176 led the DuPont City Council meeting in the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The girls of DuPont did just fine, although in an odd twist of events Mayor Jenkins appears to cast a curse over the kids by stating that they could one day serve their community by sitting on the DuPont City Council.
Shouldn’t we set higher goals for the children of today?
Besides, the mayor is muscling in on my long time gig of poking a stick at the city council. Why not say that the girls could serve as mayor? It is an election year, after all. Maybe then something other than pencil whipping permits for Quadrant and CalPortland could take place within the city limits. Or, better yet, maybe a former Daisy could do something about the sign code (this meeting marks the one year anniversary since the sign code was added to DuPont City Administrator’s action items). If one of these Daisies lands the City Administrator job after completing her four year degree, her salary (sans benefits) would be approximately $366,000 based on the last five years of annual growth and current pay schedule.
Come on, Tamara. Sitting on Council is for chumps. Aim for the skies. Being a City Administrator is where it is at!
If This is Your First Time at Toy Story…You Have to Fight
Posted by: | CommentsIt was only a matter of time before this happened. I have to admit, Mash-ups are a guilty pleasure of mine, but that was in music.
For those of you who do not know, a Mash-up is the art of mixing two or more previously recorded songs so that the result is transformative new tune. This “art form” has coincided with the emergence of studio software that is now relatively affordable paired with cheaper and more powerful home computing. While the idea is not new, it has been around for years, it no longer employs the tedium of splicing tape segments together to create a master recording.
For all the kids reading this, “cutting” and “pasting” were once actual, physical activities that may or may not have driven some into madness (although you could eat the paste).
Now, the genre includes video. Great minds think alike, right? You saw my video mash-up two years ago. Crude. Amateurish. But on RealDuPont.
Behold the sophistication that time as afforded this next clip. It reminds me of home because it is kind of like mixing together a DuPont City Council meeting with a children’s Christmas pageant.
If I Wanted To Hear From Larry Wilcox I Would Have Farted
Posted by: | CommentsHave I got your attention? Is it even possible to create any outrage with a headline in a town where a member of the city council becomes unhinged at what appears to be innocuous comments?
Larry Wilcox decided to get low, playing handball against a curb low, and cried out “This is bullshit!” during the last council meeting’s public comment portion of the agenda.
Yeah. That’s right. I said Councilman Larry Wilcox is an asshole. Bear in mind that this is only a portion of the nonsense he spewed last Tuesday evening, wait until you see the part where he paints his critics as Pontius Pilate.
The fact that councilman Wilcox is not bound by the same rules of courtesy during public comment isn’t only mind numbing, it also compounds the angst. Where was the authority of Mayor Jenkins during this episode? Why was Larry Wilcox not gaveled down? Why did the entire council sit mute and not demand an apology on behalf of a citizen who participated in their public speaking charade?
In sports, you often hear about a coach who loses his locker room. It implies that the coach no longer has a position of impact and authority over the players. In the case of DuPont, Mayor Jenkins as lost the council. The muttering of citizens around town about the mayor is similar in tone; the respect has sharply faded. The whole meeting you can see signs of this but the refusal of Larry Wilcox to control himself here is the most egregious example. Watch closely as the mayor tries to get the meeting back on track, powerless; bargaining with Wilcox that she will be the arbiter of “personal” attacks.
Just what is a “personal” attack, anyway? I was raised in Detroit where, if there is a personal attack, someone is going to the hospital and someone else is going to jail. Here, some former PTSA volunteer, den mother, and Kiwanis member will convene a committee meeting and show the offending party a piece of paper asking them to play nice or leave the sandbox.
In June 2009, Larry made one of his classic stump speeches to “TV Land” about the importance of citizens getting involved, even if it means delivering the hard message council may not want to hear. Now we have confirmation of what we suspected all along: Larry Wilcox doesn’t believe a single word that comes out of his own mouth.
Is this mic on? Hello? Hello? Uh, what agenda item are we on? Sound Transit? I meant to say Pierce Transit. We have the best staff in the whole state.
I was clued onto this sad episode the night that it occurred. I received a flurry of email messages stating that I needed to view the rebroadcast of the meeting to see for myself. Others used flowery language to describe the exchange. Not one person who contacted me had anything favorable to say about Councilman Wilcox. Sure, maybe these people were pushing their own agenda, but the transcript speaks for itself.
At this point there exists only one play for the city to run from scrimmage. No, it isn’t to demand the resignation of Wilcox. He is completely devoid of introspection and self consciousness; thereby it would be impossible for him to acknowledge his transgression against the people of DuPont enough to do anything remotely close to honorable. It would take a team of therapists, and perhaps a neurologist to enable that kind of break through discovery. Actually, I think the city should be held accountable and they should immediately and publicly apologize. The mayor, Larry Wilcox, and all the other muted and cowardly council members who were in attendance owe the citizens of DuPont, and Mr. Dresser in particular, an apology and acknowledge that they are elected servants of the people of this town. If a citizen cannot approach their government and voice concern, state observations, or seek redress without the confidence that their opinions are valued, then they have failed at the very foundation of governance.
Larry Wilcox’s behavior was terrible, but the ineptitude of the mayor and the lack of a response from council was in many ways worse. Much worse. It does clearly illustrate, however, that if everyone is going in a different direction then we are going nowhere.
DuPont is exactly where it needs to be and that is the tragedy.
Superpowers
Posted by: | CommentsThe crosswalk discussion carried on to the second public comment section of the televised council meeting a couple of weeks ago. If you remember, there was a request anew for crosswalks on McNeil at Jensen and McNeil at Garry Oaks. It received the official City of DuPont lip service. Penny Coffey asked Peter Zahn to chime in on some off-the-top-of-his-head criteria for crosswalks. This is where Peter Zahn fell flat, citing some non-existent guideline that crosswalks are typically placed near controlled stop areas.
I guess Mr. Zahn is unaware of the crosswalks from the tanning salon to the new nail shop.
OK, OK, that is private property, but there was a swift backlash where numerous examples of crosswalks violating our Public Works director’s definition.
In the 1970s there was a commercial tag line that said “Don’t mess with mother nature.” In our case, I think it is more appropriate to say Don’t mess with stay at home moms.
Or, supermoms. However, it is not how you might perceive them to be. We are not talking about moms who are sitting around the house watching Jerry Springer interspersed with commercials for some career academy. The supermom has a very specific task in cities like DuPont Washington that council would be wise to take heed.
The numerous stay-at-home moms in DuPont are the eyes and ears of our community. They are our first responders for things that may not seem just right; and certainly they are the early warning system when it comes to the community children’s safety. These are not the supermoms of yore, like the recently departed Barbara Billingsly, more affectionately known as Mrs. Cleaver. No, the 21st Century supermom is active and in the parks and streets and coffeeshops. They are networked, they are texting, they are on Facebook; and they are not talking about which detergent keeps whites white or colors bright. They are talking about the van parked over there; that house with that dog over here; or that cars do not yield next to their tot lot.
The school bus arrives and their second day begins.
The council, mayor, and city staff would be wise to listen to the mother who is motivated enough to bring an issue to them at a council meeting. These moms have a tremendous amount of clout and their word can spread fast. They are at the forefront of making the family decision to live in DuPont because of the benefit it provides to their family. Remove that benefit, or the perception of that benefit, and we are doomed. Suddenly, they are telling their friends who are transferring from Benning, Bragg, or Bliss that DuPont isn’t as good as it used to be, or, DuPont is over rated and over priced.
Professional marketing can’t hold a candle to their word of mouth.
If you have followed this issue you can rightly conclude that the city leadership tried to play these women as fools. That is a tactical mistake. It is bad business to piss off your core customers and spewing some jive about needing some traffic control is insulting. If you don’t know, then say you don’t know. But, you better give a date when you will know.
Our Den Mother mayor is reluctant to do much more than make s’mores with her staff. Perhaps it is time roll up the sleeves and accomplishes something, no matter how minor it may seem to council. The tracking sheet is a joke. Blue ribbon committees do not equate to accomplishments. Hollow accolades about how “awesome” or “phenomenal” our well paid city staff are means nothing to a citizen who is left wanting. You cannot request a simple code enforcement in this town without convening a constitutional congress and an audience with the pope.
When you don’t know what you are doing, then nothing is easy.
I admit, I am a bit envious of how these mom’s banded together to thoughtfully, articulately, and civilly state their case. They are better than me in that regard. I would like to offer them a word of advice, though. Don’t bother confederating with Larry Wilcox. I believe he is sincere in wanting to help but the fact of the matter is that he is powerless to influence your cause. You will have to work with Dawn Masko. At the end of the day, it will take a recommendation from City Hall staff to get the crosswalk installed. City Council is just the potted plant that will approve the funds; and they seldom vote against a recommendation from city staff.
And, if they don’t listen to your concerns then I am afraid we are not as good as we used to be as well as overrated and over priced. We will be like any other off base community in 10 years at our current rate.
Not One Penny But Several
Posted by: | CommentsThere was a lengthy status update on the “Global War on Terror” memorial at the last DuPont Washington city council meeting. The update was a head scratcher for a couple of reasons, but when you have the long winded Peter Zahn and the Alzheimer’s candidate Larry Wilcox presenting information, then brevity goes out the window with reason and articulation.
The first question that can be reasonably asked is whether this is a city project or a private project. The materials around town; fliers at local businesses, advertising in the Home Town Clipper, suggest that the War Memorial is a citizen project, and it is…sort of. According to Mayor Jenkins, it is a “community project” with the “funding donations and project payments have been managed by the City.” Curiously, the city stepped up to handle the financial aspect due to concerns over timing as the project leads marched toward Veteran’s Day. While this Veteran’s Day may seem logical, it is no more appropriate that a dedication set for Memorial Day, or the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, or even Veteran’s Day, 2011, which would have had the once a century 11/11/11 date to etch into stone. Nonetheless, the decision was made and the city would do what they do best: hold the purse strings.
Also curious is that the mayor mentioned that this project was being conducted similar to other “community” projects. Perhaps someone can jog my memory, but when was the last time we had a community project where they collected such a vast sum with citizen fundraisers for something that will be given back to the city once complete? I mean, if the checks were made payable to the “City of DuPont” then wouldn’t it be the city’s project all along? Take into account that the city has been lending city personnel to help manage this project and maybe you will also conclude that there isn’t much “community” in the project at all. Think about it: Checks written to the city, a city councilman championing the effort with twice monthly updates, city staff time to oversee the project construction, and city-approved vendor and bid processes for materials.
If that isn’t oblique and confusing enough, let us return back to the comments continually made by Larry Wilcox on behalf of the city. Time in and time out, Councilman Wilcox claims that they city is not paying anything for this project. Really? Then perhaps the city can explain how the supervisory roles are being funded? Or, why in the myriad of Thank You’s Mr. Wilcox rattles off the names of city employees?
I exchanged a few emails with City Administrator Dawn Masko and Mayor Jenkins on the matter. I got the standard DuPont issued, passive-aggressive, boilerplate gobbledeegoo; where the city begrudgingly admitted that there is some city staff time being utilized on the project, but again, only to facilitate this artificial deadline. The point I asked our dynamic duo, but did not get answered, is if they knew that Councilman Wilcox’s statements were false, then why did they choose to remain silent on the matter and not correct his misstatement? They obviously had several opportunities to take him aside privately and say, “Larry, cool it with this no cost to the city business, we are using staff time on the project. Use softer phrases like ‘minimal cost’ or ’staff time’ to downplay the dollars spent by city hall.”
Dawn and Tamara chose not to do that, however. They let Larry loose like a crazy uncle at Thanksgiving. Charming, except for the fact that Larry wasn’t talking to the TV, but rather he was talking from it. And for a brief moment, I felt sorry for Larry speaking the equivalent of walking around with toilet paper on his shoe. Perhaps they were hoping for some self awareness from Wilcox, instead they got the humdinger that the project burden to the city of DuPont is “not a penny!”
What appears to escape Councilman Wilcox is that staff time is also money in the eyes of the taxpayer. The mayor and city administrator made zero mention of staff time being reimbursed by donations, so one can only conclude that it was on the city’s nickel that they participated in the project. Now that we are at budget season, and we are bludgeoned over the head with what we cannot have in this town, perhaps we can question whether we are overstaffed in certain areas. Is public works so flush with supervision that Peter Zahn can project manage some construction for a memorial? What? No trails need maintenance? No signage needs repair? How about Bill Kingman? When not working on the SMP, or mine expansion, I guess he is working through his lunch for whatever Larry thanked him for in the video.
I am also perplexed by the reaction of Dawn Masko and Mayor Jenkins. Why let Larry keep extolling the lack of cost? I asked our leaders, not quite rhetorically, whether these statements are attributable to Larry Wilcox being a liar or ignorant. Neither Dawn nor Tamara seemed too concerned at letting Larry be Larry, or in other words, blather on without any self consciousness.
Here is a portion of the response I got from the mayor:
Lets revisit a snapshot how this project came about. More than one citizen and elected wanted to see a community memorial capturing the time period we are in. The project that is being worked on now was brought forward to council. Council and I gave a thumbs up that this would be a good community project. The project started it’s momentum approximately a year ago with updates along the way. The funding donations and project payments have been managed by the City because of timing. We collectivly made that choice as the most effective and efficient process in order to deliver the project on time.
(I hate the term ‘elected’ as a noun. It is pretentious shorthand for elected official. It is not in the dictionary)
First of all, I do not need a reminder of how this whole thing started, I have the video. Reading this statement will have you conclude that the only reason the city is involved is because of the schedule. It also suggests that the thumbs up were to proceed with the full project, yet the video tells a different tale. The question I have for the city is when did council vote to approve funds, or in this case, the use of city staff, to support this community project? I have reviewed the council meeting minutes online and there is nothing more than an occasional update on the progress of the project. The level of the city involvement was never recorded. The project also does not appear in the budget for this year. There is no record that the city planning agency was consulted on the matter. The Parks and Recreation agency was not involved in this project until August, 2010.
People are free to debate the merit of the project; that is not what I am writing about. I am concerned with our council’s casual approval of this project. Do you get the impression the council rubber stamped this without asking about cost because it was implied that it would not involve city personnel? For this, the blame land squarely on the shoulders of Mayor Jenkins. At some point between January and October this project morphed into something bigger than intended. It was her responsibility to either get it back on track or update the citizens. It appears neither happened.
It is no mystery that Tamara Jenkins gets the vapors when anything to do with JBLM is mentioned. She throws around the lingo with in-the-know abandon. Too bad at these moments she forgets she was elected to represent the rest of DuPont. Yes, yes, we know. You love the military. You really love the military. We can all form a line in fawning over JBLM behind you. But, at some point, you have to justify the actions of city hall. I just don’t see that happening.
Here is the rest of the email exchange the mayor and I had over this matter.
10/13/10 7:13 AM
Tamara,
You fell off this distribution but I feel you need to be pulled back in. Ms Masko states that the city is shouldering some of the expense to this memorial. The reasons why can be debated but that is not the point here. I am more concerned with the complete lack of transparency on the amount of time and money being spent by the city.
Larry Wilcox has pretty much claimed from the beginning that the city bears no burden for this project. That is factually incorrect. Please review to the following link for confirmation of this statement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vny0Ub-Vqic
As you can see, Larry is emphatic in his claims of city burden yet no one, not you, nor council, nor Dawn Masko make any attempt to correct his latest misstatement.
There needs to be full disclosure to the citizens on what our past, current, and future costs are for this project. There also needs to be better communication since the project lead, even as recently as last week, did not understand why this is a “city project” even though private funds were being utilized.
Received: 10/13/10 09:21 AM
Mike, you are correct that city funds were used in terms of staff salary. Permitting, inspection, finance management, staffing the parks and recreation agency and coordination takes staff time. Similar to other projects which are submitted to the city.
Lets revisit a snapshot how this project came about. More than one citizen and elected wanted to see a community memorial capturing the time period we are in. The project that is being worked on now was brought forward to council. Council and I gave a thumbs up that this would be a good community project. The project started it’s momentum approximately a year ago with updates along the way. The funding donations and project payments have been managed by the City because of timing. We collectivly made that choice as the most effective and efficient process in order to deliver the project on time.
The community project has been treated similar to other submitted projects which requires park and rec process and permitting. The cost to design and build the project is by donations.
Kind regards,
Tamara
10/13/10 11:01 AM
Tamara,
You have failed to address a very important part of the email sent to you. The cost has been downplayed by Larry Wilcox while the rest of council, you as mayor, and city staff sits in silence when this obviously false assertion is made over and over again.
I am not debating the merit of project. I have questions of the timing and urgency in a self proclaimed cash strapped city, but I am also not inquiring about that.
I am sorry, but I disagree with you that this is being run similar to other projects. In the case of other city projects, cost to the city is at the fore of the discussion. Here, it is trivialized and dismissed. Why?
As you may recall, more than one citizen and “elected” were proponents for a skate park. As citizens, we never heard the end of the cost to the city. Similar funding concerns are also brought up when speaking to work around the creek. In the case of the memorial it is a different story.
I suspect that the memorial project has a fair amount of scope creep in play. There is an artificial rush to dedicate this project by Veterans Day. If I am reading Ms Masko’s email correctly, in order to
facilitate this launch date, more interaction was required by the city. That translates into cost. When you mention that a “thumbs” up was given to this project by yourself and council, I somehow missed the part where you were approving undisclosed city funds to the project. What was that amount again? Or, at least direct me to the meeting documentation of the specific funds council blindly approved.
Please do not confuse the merits of the project versus the execution of the project. Even Phil Courts needed clarification on the city’s role.
Let’s start talking in terms of dollars and cents when it comes to the city involvement. Are we cash strapped or not? If the labor is billable to the general fund then I am sure more than one citizen
would share their misgivings.
Be transparent in the council update on this matter and stop brushing aside the city’s financial burden, even if it minimal. Larry Wilcox is either a liar or ignorant when he proclaims the city is paying for
“hardly anything” for the project. Which is he?
Received: 10/13/10 11:01 AM
Thank you, Mike, for sharing your prospective. The administration will re-emphasize the cost to the city thru staff time at the next regular council meeting. I would imagine the discussion will also come up during the budget workshops.
Tamara
If past history is our guide, I doubt Mayor Jenkins will provide the full amount of this project.