Same Time Next Year
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It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about the problems that come from
having 11 bosses who are not on the same page about anything, as well as
suggestion...
6 months ago
June 12, 2006
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This is not 100% ORH related, but I hope it puts across a point.
What are the chances we can get some free prison labor up on airport hill to spruce the place up and maybe even replace a couple of these $100K custodians. The only requirement would be they wear long sleeve shirts.
Today's T&G reports that free prisoner labor can be used by a private business (Can-Am) to clean up their leased staduim after baseball games. THIS IS A REAL STRETCH. The legal logic is that the baseball field is owned by a non-profit (Holy Cross) that just also happens to have a multi billon dollar endowment fund.
The T&G also reports this morning that the HC Class of '56 just had a reunion up on Mt St. James during which HC was able to ring up another $8 million for the HC endowment fund. Nice if you can get it, meanwhile our taxbase erodes and our airport just cannot seem to fly??????
Jahn, this is a great idea. I work for the city and approached a supervisor last year to find out about having prison labor clean up city streets. He said there would be an unavoidable conflict with the DPW; nothing has come of it since and I still see litter, refuse, and shopping carts lining our streets and marring empty lots.
As for keeping the airport terminal clean, the only obstacle I can see would be the long-standing practice of paying current staff to keep an essentially unused asset tidy. The status quo can be a tough boulder to push aside. We need to have an ally within the city promoting these ideas.
Can't be done. Union won't allow it. You're literally takeing food from the mouths of hard working city employees trying to provide a living for their families.
Well this is THE PROBLEM, pols beholden to public employee unions. Maybe I shall endeavor to fill my '79 Chevy pick up with abandoned shopping carts and then drop them off all over airport hill. Surely this will get ORH some attention at the next council meeting.
And what about the food that the city is taking from my kitchen table to run this deficit ridden airport?
I thought the DPW employyees contract was still being negotiated? Can we not get a clause inserted to allow prison labor to work gratis for the city?
Where is Mr. Glodis for gratis on airport hill? Maybe the air at the higher elevation is too thin for his crew of henchmen?
Well my darn wallet is growing thinner everyday !!!!
Bring on the free labor NOW! I'll even provide the long sleeve shirts for free!!
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