COMMUNICATIONS – CITY OFFICIALS
John Gonder reads something into the record ... I think it is the financials of Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana.
Zurschmiede now questions money spent on annexation study that he thinks was spent in part on an inner city grid study which NA was invoiced for.
Steve Price: When we can't find the money, it means we should have a representative present any time a check is cut.
KZ - 2/5 of annexation money already spent (in 2007). Wants to know why the money was spent on the inner city grid study.
Benedetti: Scott Wood!!
Dan Coffey: The people who did this are in office to this day ... root them out!!
KZ - being a good, good Republican tonight.
Stan says he can research it so that someone might leak to the Tribune.
Gonder: Are C-J supplements tossed from cars constitute litter? Mickey Thompson says yes, they clog the sweepers and the drains.
KZ - Newport, KY has 3 full-time attorneys to take care of code enforcement violations like littering. NA's never enforced anything.
Pat McLaughlin - "for rent" signs chained to street signs. Should we cut them off?
KZ - big grandstanding on things that he's been reluctant to address previously. Why? "Until the city government stands up" and demands compliance, it will go on.
Steve Price - halfheartedly defends Ron Hartman as doing some little bit of his job, but does not elaborate.
KZ - back on the stump ... but what has he previously done to push this line of thought?
(The microphones are not working)
COMMUNICATIONS – MAYOR
Doug England is on site. We're hauling (someone - didn't get the name) into court. Defends progress, and says the second enforcement officer is coming on line. Praises Marcey's work in the absence of a city court. "Great to be the mayor of a city with so much love and understanding toward each other." Annexation plan already in place. This will be done and the Charlestown corridor will be annexed by January 1, 2010. Is he talking just about Purdue, or the entire corridor?
Is the mayor saying that Rev. Wickens does not live within the city limits of New Albany?
Speaks of trying to return commerce to the Colonial Manor area of Charlestown Road.
Suggests that the railroad bridge on Grant Line won't happen because of the state's unwillingness to help us maintain it. It is on hold at this time.
Talks a bit about the ice storm cleanup.
Bob Caesar - streets need to be paved.
Mayor England speaks of a plan to pave every street in NA ... but we'll not get details tonight. Firefighters getting involved by being here tonight.
Scott Wood addresses us on the subject of the $33,000 mentioned earlier by KZ. Says that the money was reimbursable and would be back in the pot.
Coffey: "Not the way you do business." Coffey atacks Scott, retracts, fumbles, and looks bully-like.
England: "I put the proper amount of emphasis in downtown." It is the heart of the community.
Benedetti: "Suburban areas ... " Me thinks she's not a friend of us. She is silenced by England's rebuttal.
APPROVAL OF CF-1 FORMS:
Carlisle Family, LLC, Compliance with Statement of Benefits, Referencing R-99-17 (RE)
Fire King International, INC, Compliance with Statement of Benefits, Referencing R-99-16 (RE & PP)
No one here from either one. Will be advanced forward. Cofey suggests moving them up in the meeting.
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