Upcoming Events

Several events are coming up, presented by CD Council member organizations:

• Lemoyne Owen College is having a housing fair on September 5 from 10 until 1, at 1109 Mississippi Blvd. Info: 435-1654.
• Power Center CDC is having a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new charter school, Power Center Academy. Wednesday, September 5, 10:30 a.m. 6120 Winchester.

Comments

[Armin]

Once again, it is broken rercod time . While it is true that great sums of money are involved in the matter of business paying more of their share commensurate with their profits and that same is a good idea, i do not want to lose sight of the cuts to staff and services that have been implemented. The council continues to ignore the excessive salary and benefits of the city mgr and the city attorney and the matter of opening their positions to competitive bidding The fact is the budget deficit is the responsibility ultimately of okeefe, the city mgr and he steadfastly refuses to take that responsibility while still earning triple digit salary and considerable benefits His failed performance continues to be ignored; he is not fired; his position is not opened to competitive bidding Biddle, the city attorney, has the chutzpah to ask for a gift if the voters decide to end his job and West on the council gives him that gift with our money and tells us she saved us 200k by giving him only 200k! Who buys that reasoning?Have biddle's performance evaluations been made public? Has the council allowed his position to be posted for competitive bidding? Have there been staff studies of the salary/benefits/cost reductions possible?These glaring budget related problems go unaddressed and citizens continue to pay for them I attention was paid to them it might not be necessary to cut services and staff to the same degree as has been done..I say again that, given the refusal to act on these probable budget saving options by the current council, I will offer to help candidates who run for the 3 council seats and who need campaign help to get their message out about the need to address the matters described.Hopefully, there will be many citizens who will volunteer similarly; perhaps those who write incessantly but anonymously will decide to participate as well