No meeting tonight but would it not be nice to see an agenda like this for next Tuesday?
- single residential/commercial tax rate over 5 or 10 years
- privatization of city owned assets like the Airport, DCU, Union Station and Green Hill Golf Course
- 5,800,000 million HUD loan that is cost to cost us $9,345,000 in lost CDBG funds
- Why was $100,000 of unexpended NRSA funds not transferred to a successful program like the facade program, which has no money for the rest of this fiscal year, versus Main South CDC and 93 Grand Street.
- City Council take a wage freeze for their pay and stop current and future pay automatic pay raises?
- Unfunded pension obligation
- How does the City of Worcester support a $7,000,000 million dollar 25 unit low income apartment building at the former City Builders site, that nobody in the neighborhood suports, when the track history to date has resulted in the mess called Cambridge/Hacker Street?
8 comments:
Bill,
You hit the nail on the head, not necessarily with the items you list although I happen to agree with most of them, but with what the problem really is. The council has degenerated from a lack of leadership and direction to 11 individuals each trying to solve the problem on their own. I’m certainly not suggesting “group think”, just to have the Mayor set a course and manage to it.
And what about 13% of the city laborforce out Injured on Duty Status. Can anyone imagine a private company with 13% of the workforce on Workmens comp...........then three's also the 10.5 average sick days per employee per year for all city employees.
And like Jeff Wormtown says all tehy worry about is useless legislation like knife ordinances, push cart laws, shopping cart laws, and unenforcebale strip clubs zoning laws, & washed up boxers who are looking to up their pensions & paychecks. Hopefully he can at least scale the 5ft wall that the women recruits counldnt.....so they just lower the wall for the women.......Whats next.....they pay for a plumbing operation so I can start having babies.!!!!!!!!
Classic case for term limits and I dont blame Lukes for what goes on down there . IMO she's the only one watching out for me & my taxes money.
Also add to agenda:
a. Payroll-gate Update
b. Redaction-gate Update
Jahn
Add M Steinert to list of closed Worc businesses.
I heard on Boston radio about mid afternoon that M. Stienert & Sons Pianos will close the Worc store. Natick & Boston will be the 2 remaining stores.
Paulie, I guess Pajama People dont buy pianos....huh???
"I heard on Boston radio about mid afternoon that M. Stienert & Sons Pianos will close the Worc store. Natick & Boston will be the 2 remaining stores"
This deserves it's on space....on a blog!
Our leadahs keep telling us how cultural WooTown is and how much there is to do..well we have a little culture leaving WooTown in my opinion...of course all notice they are not leaving Natick or Boston
"Paulie, I guess Pajama People dont buy pianos....huh???"
well it was not difficult to understand how Jordan Levy & Jim McGovern planned to end homelessness..they would just invite them all to "WooTown UnProper"...pork barrel all the Sexy 8 certs, housing funding and foodstamps! Problem solved@^$%*@!
A number of local citizens, some of whom are also business owners, have recently started a grassroots effort to move the city back to a single tax rate but sadly it falls on deaf ears with our current council. The councilors continuously pit the residential property owners and commercial property owners against each other instead of taking a higher road to bring us together. The tax burden has shifted from 50/50 in the 80's to the residents picking up nearly 70% now. This shift will continue as long as businesses keep closing or leaving. Eventually all the residents will be left holding the bag. We need a sensible way to move the city back to single tax rate and expand our tax base again for the benefit of our entire community. It is time to put a stop to the anti-business sentiment in Worcester. Please pass the word... voting 'lowest residential tax rate' does not necessarily mean your taxes don't go up! Check out www.citizensforbusiness.org.
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