Can anyone tell me what these new groups - Green, Republican, Independent,
would bring to the issues raised in this post about graffiti, clean city,
public works infrastructure, and job development? I think we have had
pretty in-depth discussion of housing policy and the internal debt service
issue but what different approaches would the other parties bring to issues
brought up in this post? Also, if folks do put out different solutions
which cost additional money, would they identify the source of that money in
their posts?
Carol Becker
Longfellow
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Wayne Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: [Mpls] clean city/graffiti etc.
> Failed graffiti proposal, failed clean city initiative, failed housing
> policy, failed public works infrastructure, failed internal debt
> service...oh, passed wealthy subsidies to corporations downtown. Can the
> picture get any clearer. We should all be putting our energies into new
> leadership.
>
> Russ Peterson
> Ward 9
> Standish
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> timothy connolly
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Mpls] clean city/grafitti etc.
>
>
> In response to Mark Wilde and other interested
> parties:
>
> As I understand what happened with the budget process
> is that the council approved $300k for the Mpls. Clean
> City campaign to be apportioned this way:$200K would
> go for graffiti abatement and $100k would go into some
> type of metro wide anti-litter campaign. This was
> during markup and how it fared in the final budget
> process I am unsure.
>
> The thinking during markup if I am not mistaken was
> that the council would cut the mayor's proposed $600k
> Clean City initative among other things to keep on
> track (a popular metaphor these days) with narrowing
> the $70plus million infrastructure gap. Nobody really
> seemed happy with the proposal but it did pass in
> markup before the entire new approved budget
> ultimately failed and the mayor got her way.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong. I hope I made things
> clearer.
>
> Now, I think the whole thing is B.S. Here is a mayor
> who has essentially gutted public works services such
> as picking up trash from city owned receptacles
> everywhere but the so-called MALL and perhaps certain
> special districts where business owners have been in
> effect double-taxed for what were once basic services,
> then coming back wanting to put $600k into a Clean
> City Campaign which has also been taken away from
> Public Works and put under Licenses and Regulatory
> Services.
>
> If you understand this rationale, please enlighten me.
>
> I read recently in SWJournal a letter from John Meehan
> od Top Shelf and his neighborhood assn(Lyn-Lake) his
> disbelief when the city came around and removed three
> trash receptacles because businesses had not "adopted"
> them.
>
> And last night I walked by a receptacle at Franklin
> and Lyndale brimming with trash, one apparently not
> yet adopted and no doubt slated for removal. I ask:
> What will happen to the cups, plastic containers, etc
> that are now put away in those receptacles and how can
> $600k or however an amount of money be seen as
> anything other than a waste of money when receptacles
> are removed from the streets????
>
> I suppose we'll get some glitzy multi-million dollar
> PR campaign from a revolving door politician cashing
> in complete with public service ads playing at 2am
> urging all Minneapolitans to "carry it with you" or
> "don't drink outside" or What????
>
> I do not understand! Is there something in the water
> in this community that a) makes people come up with
> these "solutions" and b) makes us collectively nod our
> heads in agreement like so many bobbleheads saying
> "sounds good to me."??
>
> Does anyone out there understand English?
>
> Tim Connolly
> Ward 7
>
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