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
February 29, 2008
Abandoned Building Ordinance
Click here and then start reading page 141 of 864. This is an existing ordinance that was created after the Cold Storage Building fire. It is a great ordinance and applies attention where needed and should be enforced. Besides securing the building the owner must maintain liability insurance. If a property owner does not comply they can be fined up to $300 per day.
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Here I go repeating myself again, but reports are that the City budget is now projected to be $5M in the red for 2008.....and the school committee is just coincidentally loooking for $5M more in their 2009 budget.
Kudos to Konnie for being the lone wolve voting against this request from the school committtee to the city council.
Mr Allen, the school dept bean counter, and Mr Caradonio should look at Edu-Clean to reduce school janitorial costs, instead of coming to Thursday night school dept meetings banging their tin cup against the council chamber walls. This Edu Clean was a Worc. Municipal Research Bureau recommendation, that was years ago kicked to the curb by the spendthrifts who run the schools.
Then school dept will be the first to feel the crunch as it is inundated with add'l students resulting from the Low Income Housing Pimps (LIHP's) building 101units of housing on a 1/2 acre lot that formerly contained four 3 deckers (12 units of housing).
Anyone see the legislation on Beacon hill that passed the house yesterday that will exempt senior citizen property owners from additional taxes incurred as the result of Prop 2 1/2 overrrides? Does anyone see the danger in this? Seniors who typically vote down Prop 2 1/2 overrrides will not turn out to vote the override down if there will be effect on their property taxes and the override(s), as a result, have a greater chance of passage. What the municipal employees cannot obtain via the front the door........they try and get via the back door.
McGovern is sat it again. This time securing 186,000 in fed'l money to aid those in foreclosure...and what will the god dam money be used for.........I quote......"Foreclosure Counseling"........maybe if he gave more attention to Havana my tax dollars would not wasted on such frivolous baloney....WTH is foreclosur counseling................must be a euphemism for the fact that one of Jims relatives needs a job?
Sorry Bill, but how any business man can stand with the likes of McGovern, Germaine, Fresolo, et al truly amazes me. These guys are the problem, not the solution.
Janh:
Good idea on Edu-clean.
As fas the pols you mention, I may disagree with some of them on a National Level but on a local level I feel that our representative do a great job "bringing back the bacon" as they say. Once we get the bacon, we do not invest it wisely..
How about this for another analogy. You can have the greatest footbal coach in the world, but without the right players you will lose. Right now the City of Worcester does not have the right players on the field.
Bill
Does this include James D. OBrien Field?
Sorry to have to publicly flog you, esp. on a Friday, but Ticked Off Thursday has now morphed into:
"WTH Are Our Leaders Doing Friday?
Foreclosure Couseling?
Gimme Shelter !!!!!!
Jahn:
We have all the pieces in place. Whether it be the UniverCity Partnership, the Chamber of Commerce, Destination Worcester, Choose Worcester, Worcester Vistors Bureau, the Abandoned Building Ordinance, the Noise Ordinance and about 1000 different reports from various consultants or the Worcester Regional Research Bureau.
We simply need execution of what we have. No more ordinances, no more bureaucracies!!
Enforce what is on the books and hold the existing agecnies accountable that should be the number one job of the City Council.
Bill
Lets not forget that quality of life issue--the abandoned cart ordinance.
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