I don't see a suggestion that a plaque be built honoring the car allowance for the director of communications for the mpls school board or a plaque for the diversity head who was hired part time yet gets a car allowance and 2 months vacation and over 80thousand dollars in a position that was empty for 5yrs. or is this wife beating also as Ms. Micklesen suggests. Dain Lyngstad Phillips/ edina --- ken avidor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Accountability!....people want > accountability!...when they're talking > about public school teachers, that is. But, what > about highway > engineers?....When MDOT's highway engineers screw > up so bad that > traffic gridlocks and people get injured or killed > in car crashes, do we > ask for the same draconian measures we ask of the > Public School system? > Take their licence to practice engineering > away?...shut down or even > "reform" MDOT? Privatize the highways? Take the > funding away? .....nope, > nope, nope and nope...heck, we give them even MORE > money!!!..maybe like > Lynnell says, it's because teachers are mostly gals > and engineers are > mostly guys...who knows... > > Anyways, here is MY plan to build more > accountability into the > system.... > > ************* > HONOR THE NAYSAYERS! > > On every beautiful, functional structure in > Minneapolis is a plaque > proudly listing the public officials who had a hand > in approving the > building of it. > > Unfortunately, there are no such plaques for the > naysaying public > officials who voted against ,ugly and or wasteful > structures such as the > LSGI or the proposed stadium. I say it sometimes > takes MORE courage to > vote against a project than to vote for it. > > I say let's honor these responsible naysayers with > plaques on the site > where the boondoggle was to be built. > > I also think that plaques should be affixed to > completed boondoggles > like the intersection of Lake and Hiawatha that > identify who voted for > and who didn't vote for them. > > Maybe there should be plaques on the sites of > demolished buildings that > say, for instance "On the site of this awful > wasteland of parking lots > once stood the historic Gateway District and here is > a list of the folks > responsible for destroying it ..." > > The next time someone, says in frustration, "Who the > heck allowed that > horrendous thing to be built?!" they should be able > to check the plaque. > > Ken Avidor > Kingfield > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls
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