Kathy Lantry wrote:
Since the cities trickery prevented me speaking to you this summer, I will state my case here, and copy you directly since you don't have time to participate in this list all the time.Hi,
As many of you know, I am a self-proclaimed lurker to the Issues Forum.
I haven't actively particpated because since I have an opinion on
EVERYTHING, I could easily spend a great deal of time e-mailing my
thoughts and do nothing else.
But the dike-ah the dike. This issue goes back many years for me when
the District 4 Community Council first had it on their agenda. They
were getting a fair amount of complaints due to the noise and so the
first step was to invite a MAC representative to a D-4 meeting. As I
recall, the MAC rep said that he was not sure why this had all of a
sudden become an issue since the St. Paul Airport had a rep from D-4 on
their Holman Field advisory board. He had no idea who the rep was but
assured us that we were represented. After doing some checking on this
person, we discovered that our rep had passed away. It seemed odd to me
that if the MAC was so concerned about the neighborhood that they would
not have notified someone/anyone that a new rep needed to be appointed. The context I am trying to provide is that many of my constituents have
had very strong feelings about the airport for as long as I have been in
office.
Now onto the issue at hand. The issue that was before the city council
was whether or not the city should allocate our Capital Improvement
Budget (CIB) dollars to Holman Field. As you know our pool of CIB
dollars is very limited. CIB dollars compete against one another for
funding. This competition takes place between city owned and operated
facilities. Obviously these include fire stations, rec centers and the
like. Spending money on the dike takes directly away from these other
very important city projects. It is a matter of priorities for me. I
have a playground that has had the equipment removed because it is
unsafe. The maintanence dollars that have been skimmed off Parks for
the last several years have left our playgrounds in a very sorry state.
I think a freeway exit for westbound I-94 at Ruth Street is a good idea. It would certainly help the economic development of Sunray Shopping Center and Suburban Avenue. Should the city take on the responsibility of constructing this off ramp? Sure it is important but is it more important that city projects? I have other issues with Holman Field and the way that operation has a negative impact on my neighborhoods but the issue that I voted on had to do with funding a project that is not our responsibility.
The other ramifications of Holman Field may eventually come before the council but the vote we took on Wednesday only had to do with how we allocate our CIB dollars.
I hope this info helps.
Thanks,
Kathy Lantry
Ward 7 City Councilmember
P.I.M.P. (Parliamentary Inquiry Madam President) If the city forcibly rezoned my property from residential to light industrial using eminent domain the city would have had to pay me compensation correct?
P.I.M.P. How is not requiring GSE to complies with city, county, state noise ordinances in all the out of court settlements passed by ambush agenda items not a noise variance.
P.I.M.P. Why are passing these ambush agenda items not a violation of my neighborhoods civil rights to due process under city state noise variance laws that require a) public notice, and b) a public hearing.
P.I.M.P. How is not requiring GSE to comply, not rezoning my property? Do you think that some how the noise they make stops on the zoning boundary?
P.I.M.P. Why is a 1 in 100 chance of my property being enveloped by some kind of chemical cloud from GSE safe?
Since you didn't get a chance to see the picture of the sulfuric gas cloud that enveloped my house, my neighborhood, you can always go to my web site http://www.tnss.com/noise_stink/ look for the pictures dated 2003-07-18_08-15 for date 07/18/03 8:15 am (the pictures a presented randomly) but like you always voted my yard was safe. ( as long as I had some one watching the plant, so I'd no when to run.) That emission that I caught on camera were not the only ones, not by a long shot, and these types of rouge random emissions from the plant, along with the ammonia leaks makes my yard safe right? Thats why not one politico took the challenge to visit the plant, and smell for them selfs for just one hour.
In conclusion if I were one of your constituents I wouldn't believe that you care about noise, air quality at all, your track record on GSE speaks for itself. The fact that the city refuses to publish any noise readings prior to 01/01/2001 speaks for itself don't you think?
Arno A. Karner aka (Behind the Muffs)
West 7 th. st. < 300 ft. NNW of GSE
PS. As you try to redeem your self, I look forward to speak as a proponent of your anti-ambush agenda item rule changes, your changes for meaningful noise ordinance, and enforcement changes, and other reforms that make the city a more responsible ruling body.
PPS in the future you may wish to start using BCC instead of CC so people don't try to infer anything from who you actually send e-mail to.
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