Tuesday, February 2, 2016

'WE BUILT THIS CITY" jefferson starship



Say you don't know me
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place.


Monday night's council meeting was attended by only five council people Council ladies Lori DiNallo and Katie Jenkins were excused.

Well we voted to take that 2 million plus loan on. This seems to be a yearly carryover loan?

We discussed adding the word 'Historical' to the downtown name with a claim it doesn't change a thing? We need the designation to be part of some kind of special designation? Look with what he have of Historical building in our downtown the threshold can't be that high?

Put off buying salt, 60 degree's weather I guess?

We passed a resolution to begin clearing for the Cedarbrook drainage basin. Job of clearing must be completed before the bats return in April. Wouldn't it be nice if jobs have to be completed before people get upset?

Storrs St. Service Garage. Now if there is one facility that hasn't changed much when I noticed it as a lad 60 years ago it's the facility on Storrs St. You want Historical there's your historical.

Some of the buildings are literally falling down. The city proposes a 80' x120' prefab steel building at a proposed cost of $600,000 with the electric department sharing half of the office and bay space paying close to half the finished price. I don't know offhand what a building like this costs  it just seems a bit high.
Expect the Water Department to get a similar building in the next few years. That will be a departmental cost and will not cost the general fund. 



Rumor has it there's a deal in the works for the Cleveland Browns to receive the New England Patriots first round draft pick for quarterback Johnny Manziel.

8 Comments:

At February 2, 2016 at 12:45 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have to wonder how Council votes to suspend the rules, in order to make things an "emergency", when two members are absent?
I always thought more members had to be in attendance for the suspension of rules to be allowed.

 
At February 2, 2016 at 1:26 PM , Anonymous TERM>> said...

12:45 Not if all 5 vote the same way

 
At February 2, 2016 at 1:43 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't think this city ever pays off a loan; I think it just refinances it and refinances it and refinances it. We'd probably be shocked if we traced back the loan to see what was still on it from how many years ago.

 
At February 2, 2016 at 1:55 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's interesting with the new building, when it was proposed in house it was proposed as the electric department paying the whole price and foregoing important truck upgrades. Which is stretching the trucks thin due to they are constantly breaking down. And it was promised that all of electric bucket trucks and necessary equipment have the garage space to make them last longer. Now it's proposed that electric loses half the space to house pickup trucks instead of several hundred thousand dollar line trucks , still forgo the trucks, pay half of the cost (most likely the whole cost) and lose money out of the budget to do necessary upgrades to our system?

Speaking of upgrades to the system, electric has been running fiber optics across the city to various offices and places of interest. All in the hopes of saving a dime on communication costs and to possibly supply communication services to local businesses. What businesses? A bakery? Hardware store? Hard to sell a product that consistently goes out or doesn't work while electricians who take courses from youtube to figure out how to do their job.

And now to the electricians, they received pay raises or rather title promotions without the proper paperwork or job postings because of the "hard work" they performed getting the fiber done. how did electric plant guys run fiber across the city? If I'm mistaken it was the lineshop that ran it. Instead job descriptions were altered with the intent of keeping council out of the loop to promote these guys going against a contract that requires jobs to be posted and that invovled pay raises already.

Now on to the power outage last week, how many people were able to get through to plant and notify/figure out what's going on? Rumor has it that only one person man's that place at night and weekends. What if there was an emergency? Is it safe? I thought the new substation on route 20 was the cure all for our power woes??? Is it fully 100% operational? It sure doesn't seem like it.

What is going on with this city and how it is managed? Seems like a 3 ring circus without the rings. A bunch of hands hiding what they are doing from one another. Afraid of the truth to get out.

 
At February 2, 2016 at 5:24 PM , Anonymous YERM>> said...

1:55 I have to ask how is that Battery Box building utilized presently? Could it be converted?

 
At February 2, 2016 at 7:21 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

It looks to be storage of sorts, plenty of rumors about Christmas decorations in there. My guess is anything can be considered, though that building is something I'm not familiar with all too well. It would be foolish of me to try to give a definitive answer on that.

 
At February 2, 2016 at 7:23 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Term, how about 1:43's post. Do you feel like trying to get the data on that loan (and others?) and see how many years it goes back, and how many, many years different things have been carried forward and refinanced instead of being paid off?

 
At February 3, 2016 at 5:03 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, convert it to air storage. Or helium. We could float it to Stors street.. What was the purpose and strategy of that thing?

 

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