On 12/11/02 11:13 PM, "Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taking revenues out of that fund and using them for other unrelated > activities is illegal as well as bad accounting. If that is happening, some > good citizen should sue the City for misappropriation of funds. And other > than street sweeping, which to me has a tenuous connection to sewers, and > Clean City, which to me has a tenuous relationship to Solid Waste, what Ms. > Heller alledges I don't see happening.
I'm not much the budget geek and will leave that to those with more expertise than me. But I couldn't overlook a couple of comments made by Carol. Street sweeping is connected to sewers because sweeping the streets keeps garbage and sediments out of our storm sewer system, reducing sediment loads on the Mississippi River, which is where all our storm water ends up. It also reduces the risk of storm drains getting clogged up and streets getting flooded. Goes back to that old saying that an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. Of course, it would be nice if people kept garbage and leaves and such out of the streets, which is what Clean City Minneapolis is about. Clean City Minneapolis is connected to Solid Waste because that's the unit of Public Works that administers the program. I can't imagine another unit that would run it more effectively. And I can't imagine that a campaign to prevent litter and illegal dumping costs more than if we had to do even more cleaning up after all those slobs that do that stuff. I encourage folks to learn more about Clean City Minneapolis at: www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/public-works/solid-waste/clean-city.asp Mark Snyder Windom Park _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
