"NOTHIN' AT ALL" heart
I would feed myself on silence
Wash it down with empty nights
Much to-do about nothing last night.
I guess we are going to do with downtown whatever we were going to do?
Fire Chief got council to approve a $2.00 pay raise for part-time firefighters, the department has a high overtime amount.
Water Plant supervisor George Ginnis received an award from the Ohio EPA. Rest assured he will never receive and award for cost estimations? He told council the $10,000,000 project for a new line and crib into Lake Erie will cost $14,900,000 sorry George not even close. You have been I guess around AMP-OHIO to long.
A presentation on Prostrate Cancer was also on the agenda, some really scary numbers.
Shirley Ondersin-Fees was appointed to Civil Service Commission. to replace William Horvath who passed away last month.
Another member of the Civil Service Commission Derick Conwell a Painesville resident as well as a police officer for another community. Told council when he applied for this position it was a volunteer position and members have sacrificed time for these meetings. Asking for a $50.00 a meeting payment?
Now not only member's of the Civil Service Commission, but also the Zoning and Planning Boards I know some of these people and they spend more than just the hour at their Thursday night meeting some research is entailed in doing this for the city. I believe if you can give the DPO $28,000 for whatever, we could pay these citizens $50.00 a meeting. They are worth every penny.
Oh, that elephant in the room? What happened to Anthony Carson? Rest assured I brought up his resignation pay as well as giving everyone on council a freedom of information letter wanting copies of Mr. Carson's contract from July 2013 to the present. The $171,541.91 they just looked at me and said nothing?I will post the letter on the blog. as to what I requested.
In closing council comment's councilman Fodor explained we are in the process of looking for a 'new' city manager. And the city is in capable hands. (note; Doug doesn't want the job)
To his credit councilman Tom Fitzgerald was the only one on council who thanked Mr. Carson for his service to the city.
Acting council-president Lori DiNallo made a somewhat strange closing comment. Telling us the city wants to keep the positive direction the city is headed... And assured department heads and employees they will find a CM who will treat them with dignity? Myself I would just me happy if they did their jobs. More assurance of how the vote went?
Deep from the bowels of the Golden Dome came this insight to me. If you want to know what happened to Carson follow the money on the parking garage demolition? Well I know it's already over $50,000 bid price?
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Other News;
The Planning Commission was asked for approval of (3) 90 foot towers made of wood to be placed on tree lawns.at E. Erie St. and Parklawn Ln.. another at Williams and Elm St. as well as a third on Prospect St. near the post office.
These 90 foot telephone poles will be placed on the city tree lawn's? With PUCO authorization? Fine but why three so close together? Who will be served by these communication towers? Will keep you informed on the what and why if I find out. Three towers all in just the northend struck me as strange? Mrs. Shoop pay attention.
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As I was doing my part last week for my sacrifice for this country by keeping those employees at McDonald's on the job. I ordered my Big Mac fries and drink and went down to Veterans Park to enjoy my lunch. As I was eating I watched a man taking photographs of our Gazebo. After a few shots he wandered over to me and questioned if I lived here? Most of my life I told him. You have one of the most beautiful town squares and Gazebo around and I'm from out of state. He then asked me its almost impossible to take a photograph of the Gazebo without getting that port-a-potty in the picture?
You have any idea why that was done that way? Look I've been around here for close to 67 years sir,I'm amazed that they didn't put the port-a-potty INSIDE the Gazebo! See that building with the golden-dome they might have an answer. Guess I'll start eating my lunch down at Rec. Park?
Think I will take my own advise to Trump and go 'dark' for a few days maybe get my dignity back?
Thanks for calling me out.
posted by terminator1 @ 12:26 PM
21 Comments
21 Comments:
I know where some of that DPO money went, they have rented two billboards by the Lake County Fairgrounds one for Art in the Park and one for Taste of Painesville. I think this is a waste of money that I think would have been better spent on streetsweeping, sometimes I wonder if Painesville is the only place where you have (or choose not to)pull weeds from concrete and asphalt streets as I do in front of my house
1:35 As well as advertises a Farm Market that closes at 4:00 pm. Well that money makes about a dozen people happy.
DPO what a waste.
Can you imagine the times Carson was told "we can't do that?" Or a new water intake will cost 10 million but in reality ends up costing 15? Or department heads who run to council people after they have done something stupid and seek recourse? He should have demanded more then $171,000 !
The DPO did not pay for those boards. And the City already street sweeps - but only has one piece of equipment, so only gets through one pass of the entire city before the season is over (between weather and sweeping at road construction sites)
Another port-a-potty story. My wife and I were riding or bikes around Painesville Sunday evening. I guess one of the pluses of living in a City in decline, is that there is little traffic on Sunday. We took a break in beautiful Veterans Square. Before we took off I told her I had to hit the Port-a-potty. IT WAS LOCKED. My wife's reaction "why would they put that ugly thing there and then put a lock on it? Are they trying to f**k with us?" I didn't know what to say, besides I was heading off to the BP station. lol
10:20 If you say they didn't, who did? Do you know?
5:26 This port-a-potty story seems to have legs? Thinking about it everything else in town seems to be locked up on Sunday why not the port-a-potty? Wonder who pays the bill?
Your response to 1020 was HI-larious. Someone explained to you you were incorrect and you ask them who did? If they know? This is your blog and you should be reporting the truth. If you're wrong and someone called you out -you should be the one to prove your fact.
1:23 Well I was told the DPO paid for those billboards? Now I'm told they didn't. So I asked who did?
If the city paid for those billboards it brings up another question?
1:23
Please explain how Term would know that info he was given is wrong.
The info "provided" by 10:20 could just as easily be wrong.
I don't think asking for clarification is out of place.
I was told the car show people were in charge of the port-a-potty?
Art in the Park is put on by the city...so they probably paid for the billboard
Taste of Painesville is sponsored by PCIC, same as Party in the Park
Neither by the DPO
Most zoning board members or bza members in other cities/townships get a small amount per meeting, $40-60.
6:30 Not as a payment but a thank-you
6:27 Well without DPO showing any financials, such as the Friday car shows sponsored by area businesses. What exactly do they do with the money the city gives them? The council gives them money and never asks any questions?
5:09 What's the reasoning behind that?
Seems like a lot of money being spent with little or no oversight by anyone?
Im sorry but I feel people who volunteer for committees should not be paid. You knew this was an unpaid voluntary position. Some folks use it as a stepping stone for bigger things, some use it as a status symbol and some just want to do the right thing by helping their community. You should have done your homework when you signed on as to just how much time was involved. I feel they dont need to be paid and they are being a little greedy asking so.
Let's give Carson some credit:
beautiful fake brick crosswalks
nice billboards
great theater commercial (in Mentor) to come to Painesville
no receipts needed when you go to training and you get $50.00 a day in you stay over $25 if you just eat lunch new paint if your don't like the color when you move in even if it was just painted.
the bath tub races and if you can't get people to enter you force your employees
$32,000.00 study on flooding to an out of state company - because you can't walk down the street and ask a county agency. Then race money through that county agency. $30,000 to tell you what you can't afford in your public works complex. and oh yes trukeys for all.
thanks Tony
The $28,000.00 doesn't go for promotion of any event. It goes towards the salary and health care benefits of the staff of DPO.
5:19 Now we are social service agency?
3:19 Let's give him some credit. First he didn't advise council to get into a power plant that was never built that cost us 2.1 million in stranded costs.
Along with a power purchase plan from PSEC. that's cost us millions. He didn't leave a parking garage fall into disrepair and had to be demolished. No need for it anyway her arrogance cost us a hospital as well as an Avery-Dennison office building. How much dirt did we loss when we got in bed with Lake View Bluffs. Never mind the $250,000 she paid for swamp land from the developer of Windjammer's Condos.
Wish I had the invoices from Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs. 100's of thousands there. Never mind Burgess & Nipple. Failed department heads how man finance directors did she go thru? engineer's whatever. I believe she started the red sidewalk program. No but the employee's had dignity! Oh. I could go on.
Nope No credit for Carson. He came here on a mission, set himself up monetarily and contractual. He knew exactly what he was doing the minute he applied and wiped us out.
Nope. Red sidewalks were all Carson's. Part of his transform Painesville into a tourist destination initiative.
2:45 Let's add that $250,000 to the things he didn't waste money on? Horvath's Lagoon's
And how much is the Lake East parking lot worth? When Carson arrived, he fired the developer (Zurumba?) to bring his out of state buddies in. That ticked off the financial backer (billionaire owner of Victoria Place) and he pulled out. Carson didn't care. No one opposes Putin!
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