Actually, Mr. Connolly - along with Dzeidzic and Rainville Lanes there is
also one for Pat Scott and (whoever the other person was who left). Anyway,
you will notice that parks, schools, buildings, streets and parkways are
named after elected officeholders and members of society who have
contributed years of public service or wealth to building the great City we
live in, usually after they've retired or died! This has been a tradition
for centuries - respect for those who have served their country and , in
this case, the City. It's a way of saying thank you for your contriubtions.
Alice's pet project - the Convention Center has proven very successful.
You raise interesting points in many of your e-mails but I don't think the
negativity and slams helps in trying to creatively solve the problems we do
have in our city. Partnerships and working on solving root problems - like
the Charter, or restructuring the council, and revisting the relationship
of MCDA and the City when it had citizen representives on the Board of
Commissioners will have better results in the long run.
And lastly, there are some people who wondered how Walt and I were going to
get along on the Park Board. We have actually had some good times and let
me tell you, his constiuent services is pretty good (his reputation
preceeds him) and he gets out and visits this whole city's park system. And
now that he has grandchildren and takes them to the parks his interest in
the environment has increased. He asked about spraying not too long ago. I
think he now understands that my reduced mowing policy that brought prairie
wildflowers back into the natural parts of our system wasn't such a bad
idea afterall. It just 3-4 year wait for the beauty is hard for many
people to take. And ask him about me and golf!
Even us old, beleagured politicicans of this city do have our good sides,
too. We are human, so please try to lighten up. I'd really appreciate it.
Annie Young
At 04:59 PM 9/16/00 -0500, craig miller wrote:
>I am going to quote black people I heard after the first Rodney King Beating
>verdict, and Women after the Clarence Thomas Hearings.
>
>YOU SOUTHSIDERS DON'T GET IT!!!!!!!
>
>The city could spend 90 % of it's discretionary funds for 30 years and still
>not catch up to the long running imbalance. You don't get it! You don't
>understand it. And comments like Mr. Connolly's just make it even harder.
>
>Craig Miller
>Former Camdenite Born and Raised
>-----Original Message-----
>From: timothy connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:07 PM
>Subject: light rail, etc continued
>
>
>>Another voice of opposition to "Avenue of the Arts" in
>>the ways and means committee was Councilmember Barbara
>>Johnson of the 4th ward who seemed less concerned with
>>the cost than with the priority, seeming to prefer we
>>build a bikeway from the northern part of town into
>>downtown. I shudder to think what that might entail!
>>
>>Though I am a bicyclist myself though less so now that
>>my lightweight Gary Fisher was replaced by a heavier
>>than god knows what Huffy by an opportunist cruising
>>my wife's alley in the tenth ward, I find it difficult
>>to justify the expense related to bikeways given the
>>nasty Minnesota climate. Call me a wuss but I stop
>>riding when winds start whipping and the snow falls
>>and I am willing to make a small wager that many of us
>>do the same. There are hearty souls. More power to
>>them.
>>
>>In a perfect world we would all ride bicycles, use
>>only solar energy, eat only organic food, love one
>>another, and never utter a cross word. Someday!
>>Perhaps if I were a parent I might feel differently
>>but as I am not I need to say that dedicated bicycle
>>paths for commuters or occasional users, though a
>>desirable want are not a necessity.
>>
>>And if we are going to set priorities in the city we
>>need to focus first on necessities and then next on
>>wants and what their relative merits are vis a vis
>>return on investment and the common good. My problem
>>with Barb Johnson's objection to "Avenue of the Arts"
>>is her narrow parochialism.
>>
>>I am still angry at the hue and cry raised by
>>opponents of The Guthrie Theatre expansion, led by
>>some members of the city and Park Board who turned it
>>into a North/South, bluecollar/whitecollar, battle
>>that made more sense in the 30's than it does in the
>>late 90's. Barb Johnson was among the most vocal
>>critics of the Guthrie expansion. So now we have
>>chewed up a big piece of land over near the river that
>>someone at sometime saw as a perfect site for a
>>ballpark or new stadium. The Guthrie Theatre expansion
>>at their present site should have happened, could have
>>happened if we had decent leadership on the issue.
>>
>>Ballparks with a view of downtown could have been
>>built in another location and land that the city owned
>>of equal value could have been transferred to the Park
>>Board to administer. Given the amount of noise and
>>traffic at the Parade Grounds site, I would hardly
>>typify it as the best location. Even a litlle farther
>>north toward Olson Highway in the Sumner Olson area
>>would have worked well.
>>
>>My wife and i had some time to kill on the 4th of July
>>and being up Northeast I drove her around a few spots
>>she had never seen or had seen and forgot. She kept
>>saying, "Wow, is this nnice" or "what a view" speaking
>>of the view of downtown from Ridgeway Road and all the
>>time we heard no airplanes roaring overhead. My only
>>comment to her at the time was remember all this when
>>you hear Barb Johnson, Walt Dziedzic, etc talk about
>>all the amenities in south Minneapolis.
>>
>>As we drove through portions of the 1st and 4th, even
>>past Walt's house, I pointed out the nice concrete
>>streets. No wonder the citizens of those wards named
>>streets after Walt Dziedzic and Alice Rainville. Mean-
>>while there are already decent sized divots in Eat
>>Street which was repaved only a couple years ago. I
>>don't want to go too far with this line because I
>>kinda like Walt and Alice, how little I know them, and
>>Barb seems nice enough as well.
>>
>>Just thought to add this afterthought. Hope I haven't
>>pissed off too many people. Is my new regimen working?
>>
>>
>>
>>Tim Connolly
>>Ward 7
>>D.T. resident
>>
>>
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Annie Young
Ward 6 - East Phillips
Citywide at-large Park Board Commissioner
Working to build a sustainable community
