"HEARD IT ON THE RADIO" donna summers
But they said it real loud
They said it on the air
The headline read;
PAINESVILLE
Council makes decision about Channel 12
Council woman Katie Jenkins suggested the possibility of Channel 12 going dark. Council proceeded with councilwoman Jenkins suggestion to make DVD recordings and setting up a system with Morley Library for resident's to view council meetings.
A Painesville resident emailed councilwoman Jenkins with a brief statement that came down to "are you kidding?" Katie responded and her response was forwarded to me.
I'll keep councilwoman Jenkins response short. We have no idea how many people in Painesville subscribe to Time-Warner and how many of those watch Channel 12 and the council meeting?
Well Mrs. Jenkins you have a point. But looking back how many council meetings weren't broadcast? How many had no sound? How many had a small picture on a Black background? If anyone had any intention to kill off viewer's from watching something council could write the book.
Now yes council had discussions but with no input from resident's? Why? Many people believe the goal is to not let residents hear and see what goes on a council meeting? DVD how many Seniors or resident's have DVD player's? It's a fair estimate that many don't have computers? How will the senior get to the library?
Look it's called a Public Assess for a reason. Mentor, Willoughby anybody else do this through a library? No but council can fund DPO with another frivolous $6000 to do what with. Or another $1,400 a month to the Senior Center without oversight. But keeping something in operation you directly have control over, not so much.
If you people on council realized how suspiciously you are viewed by residents I believe it would shock you.
I very inexpensive solution might be to have council meetings in the Dillard Media Center at Harvey? Professional setting new equipment and residents realizing viewing or hearing a council meeting doesn't mean a trip to the Library? All this considering Painesville to this date does not have a council chamber?
Let's talk about electric cost?
In a previous post I mentioned our power factor? Very dull stuff. .060219 in April to .063094 in August. This along with the number of day's you receive power makes for a confusing invoice?
Now we have all heard the tale of boiling a frog by raising the temperature of the water slowly and the frog never noticing he was boiling to death? So what does that have to do with the PCA?
Well lets say in April you used 1251 kw of electricity at .060219 your electric bill would have been
$85.42 electric rate
$75.33 PCA for an electric bill of $160.75 plus tax
Now lets say in April you used 1251 kw of electricity at .063094 your electric bill would have been
$85.42 electric rate
$78.93 PCA for an electric bill of $164.35 plus tax
Just a small increase of what $3.60 who will notice? Wonder when and where it will stop?
ALSO:
Bowling Green Conference
Thursday August 25, 2016
GEO Survey of Solar Electricity Across Ohio
Bowling Green/AMP 20 MW Solar project
Solar, Battery Storage & Community Solar in Ohio
Wonder if Painesville will be represented? Hell, we already have a Battery Storage Building and whatever happened to those windmills in Perry?
Hell of a flood in Louisiana? Keep burning that 'clean coal' more water to follow!
posted by terminator1 @ 11:15 AM
13 Comments
13 Comments:
I had to read that article in the newspaper twice; I thought surely they aren't going to stop the televised meetings and make people go to the library. But they actually did this? Every time you think this city can't get worse, it always does. Is this a done deal? It's been so ridiculous all these years that they never could make decent recordings, or didn't want to so they could make sure that people couldn't hear, and now they are making it worse instead of better? Only in Painesville. This is ridiculous. They are ridiculous. Do any of them do anything that is good for the city? What about Katie? Has she done anything good? And now she's making people go to the library. How in the hell did this sound like a good idea to anyone on council? Unbelievable really.
Same Stuff Different Day - havent you proposed meetings at the high school? And wasnt that shot down? How much would it cost twice monthly to pay school staff to work their cameras and equipment? Or do you think anyone from Painesville should be allowed to come in and mess with the schools expensive video equipment? Why not air tape and air it on the cities own website? This seems like a simple solution to me. What, no computer at home? Well if you gotta go to Morley to pick up a disc, may as well sit an watch it there. Or am I missing something?
No one from Pnvl Muny is likely to attend as we have already heard that they don't like the idea of solar power and they sure as hell don't want to buy it from consumers.
I would guess the chances of them attending is slightly less than the next Pope being Jewish.
Clearly global climate change has to continue to be addressed, and I think most of Americans are on board with that by now, but I also saw a long report on the fact that the government knew that that area was in danger of a massive flood, and there were steps they knew that had to be taken with engineering, etc., but yet did nothing about it.
The most surprising item here is that Katie Jenkins actually responded to a constituent.
If you are going to make a DVD, that means you have video and sound equipment working. Connection to the cable company shouldn't be any problem. I have watched the council meetings on CH12. The high school kids could do a much better job of producing the product. I don't buy the excuses for a second. A DVD or 20 DVD's in the library is a nonstarter. Council, choke up the $$$ and stop making lame lame lame excuses. Chanel 12 as is, is an embarrassment. Make it better, not a memory.
TERM, what do others cities have for their citizens? Any good?
I suggest that an e-mail be announced that watchers can respond to and confirm they watch the meeting.
1:39 They can do as they please.
3:40 Presently there's a high school student doing it presently at city hall?
5:35 How do you engineer 26 to 31 inches of rain in a 24 hour period?
5:10 Email council members informing them what YOU want!
To all of you to see how things go the way they do you must attend a council meeting in person. One or two meetings how the 'process' works will become very clear.
Maybe council could turn it over to the DPO give them a couple grand more and let them do it?
6:32, this is 5:35. There were/are apparently levies, etc., that needed to be built, and the government knew/knows it, and they just never got to it. That's what the people in charge of that area say. They knew this could happen, and they and the government knew there was a way to stop it. That's how. Clearly they couldn't stop the rain, but they could have avoided the dire consequences of the rain.
Still not getting it are you. Big difference between a kid taping a meeting and a bunch of people coming into a school building to meet. Employees will need to be there and be paid for their time or do you think a kid should get the keys to the building and equipment and fly solo? Either way, I thought the idea of meeting at the schools was nixed years ago.
6:32, there isn't a sewer line big enough to handle the amount of rain that came down. We were in Baton Rouge for the '83 floods when the Cajun navy really got a work out! This one was bigger than '83. The levies had very little to do with this. People are buried above ground for a reason in Louisiana...... The homes damaged would have been damaged, levy or not. The water came from the sky not the river. Unless you lived down there I'm not sure you understand just how below sea level that state is. Memories...... Rafts of fire ants engulfing floating livestock, houses, people...... And the snakes were just a blast.
10:33 Clean coal brings you clean water!
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