"GOOD-BY YELLOW BRICK ROAD" elton john
Or we could sing Good-by Red Painted Crosswalks?
As you drive through the Downtown Painesville you can see "streescape" taking shape? You also view city crews tearing up the area around Veterans Park replacing the red painted crosswalks with cement "fake" red brick crosswalks.
Now I've been paying attention to council meeting and somehow I missed where council appropriate the funds for this project. Streetscape encompasses from the Nolan Building to State St. So that Grant money was not used and please tell me street levy funds were not used. So will someone explain where the funds came to do this crosswalk project? As well as who decided this project? Is it really a top priority for the city?
Why I bring this up is a few years ago we had residents in Painesville with rust contaminating the city water going to their homes. What do you expect with a 91 year old waterline? The council nor the administration could not find funds to replace the waterline. I guess just live with it! The solution was $10.00 fee a month from residents and an increase to commercial users. So I beg to ask where did the city find the funds for the fake brick crosswalks?
Another interesting note as the crews dug the new foundation for these crosswalks they dug up many of the original brick. might have noticed I used the word fake twice already. This project should remind residents how fake things are around town. We even considered fake storefronts at on time. But then again no residential fee was asked for this crosswalk project. Must have been in the 2014 budget right?
posted by terminator1 @ 8:59 AM
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10 Comments:
Looks like another case of a wig and lipstick operating in town?
maybe we can use all that cold patch from west washington street when they grind it down this year. use it on north state and chester intersection or the many other streets that are not on this years project list. none of witch have any holes filled.
My wife called Katie Jenkins to inquire as to why there hasn't been any work done on the streets that were to be renovated, as per the passage of the road levy last November. Jenkins responded that, due to the firing of the city engineer, the project had to be resubmitted for bids.
12:34 Watch and learn. If the finance director got fired would the city not pay invoices or employee's? Weak answer Katie.
weak answer from Katie, but a weak performance from her all the way around since she got elected. I tried to warn people.
6:44 Katie is in her first term, I don't belive she realized some tough decisions have come her way. Take care of her ward as well as the city My only advise to Katie would be be a councilman and leave the promoting of Painesville to others.
Katie is not perfect, but she's 10 times better than Hal. It's all relative.
I agree with 7:06 about the difference between Katie and Hal. I'm the one who posted earlier about my wife calling Katie; since taking office, Katie has always been willing to answer our questions, or prompt in replying via e-mail. Hal was a one-trick pony (illegals) who did not instill confidence that he'd know the answer to a question about any other city-related topic. As to Katie's reply about the roads being a weak one, perhaps it was, but I don't blame her if what she said is actually the case; it should be assigned to the city manager. By the way, Katie also told my wife that repaving of Rt. 20 hasn't happened because the city couldn't come up with their portion of money to contribute to the project. She said that it looks promising for 2015, though, because of the road levy. Not that I don't believe Katie, but, as with other well-intended plans in this town (except for, unfortunately, the Main St. project), we shouldn't hold our breath until it happens.
Katie may get back to you with an answer but she's not performing at council. Words are worthless if there's no follow through.
12:34 PM The new city engineer told me the job was not rebid burt that the city has to wait for other contractors to do their work before putting the new pavement down. It appears Jenkins was off on this one.
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