Dreaming is free!
Have a great weekend!
February 6, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Email
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Irreverent and Unrepentant Satire and Irony
parkridgeunderground
@gmail.com
@gmail.com
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(212)
-
▼
February
(18)
- Outside the Box!
- True Confessions?
- Bottled COW Recap!
- Another PRU Pot Luck!
- TGIF!
- Rules Are Made To Be Broken!
- Benedict Alderman Ryan, Illustrated Again!
- Diving Back In!
- Love, American Style!
- It's Getting Embarrassing!
- Don't Quote Him On Anything He Says!
- February Freewheeling!
- Yippy Kai Yay!
- Got A Spare $40 Grand?
- The Joker Writes for Pioneer Press!
- Thanks for the Memories!
- Nothing To See Here -- Council Recap.
- Monday PRU Pot Luck!
-
▼
February
(18)
Links
Answers to FAQs and Searches
- Mayor's salary = $12,000 per yr
- City Clerk's salary = $9,000 per yr
- Alderman's salary = $1,200 per yr
- 2010/11 annual budget = $52.7mm
- 2010/11 City Employees = 259
- School Board salaries = $0
- Park Board salaries = $0
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
17 comments:
Howie finally got around to putting up a web site.
www.howardfrimark.com
Go fill out his survey! I did! I said that I would vote for a mayor who is NOT HOWARD FRIMARK!
Have fun!
I love the flood question. If you want something done about flooding you have to agree to higher taxes and you say that flooding is not important. Sounds a little like Wsol's police station question.
Also, he asks if you think we should improve the EXISITNG police station...no mention of the proposed new police station.
Howie sure had the hanky out crying up there at the ONCC mtg.
He cried....Ald. DB was holding hands with the ORD-REST kitten...
be careful there......the claws are out!
I want my money now.......
you promised it to me Howie...
wow................
Could HOward's "dollface" be up to her old libelous tricks again...?
Found this comment on an old H-A article...
"pr voter wrote:
Jan Schakowsky and the Democratic party plan to make a large donation to Dave Schmidt, and they are timing it so it does not get disclosed until after the election."
booga booga! The Democrats are coming! The Democrats are coming!
booga booga! Jan Schakowsky's coming! Jan Schakowsky's coming!
It worked last time, didn't it...?
More of the same nonsense from the douche bag of tricksters...
Does dollface live in PR? How do you know Howard didn't write that?
Anonymous 249,
No..."dollface" is not a PR resident.
Did HOward write that...?
bwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaaa
hhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaaa...
That is funny!
I don't believe for a minute that Schakowsky or the Democratic party is planning any large donations to any small town Mayor's races, let alone a race in which to openly Republican candidates are running against each other. That is ridiculous. And Jan is not known for her generous contributions, let alone anything approaching a "large donation", to other local candidates anyway.
But it is funny about the issue of timing of contributions. Kind of like how Allegretti and Howard contrived to hide Allegretti's contributions so they wouldn't be disclosed before he got appointed by Howard to be the fourth ward Alderman.
I just took the survey at howardfrimark.com and was really annoyed about the question on Flooding. The three choices were (a) it's not a big deal and we should spend on other things, (b) sh*t happens, and (c) it is so important that it must be addressed EVEN IF IT MEANS A TAX INCREASE. Hmmm... How about, "It's so important that it must be addressed EVEN IF IT MEANS CUTTING OTHER BUDGET ITEMS"???
So I answered the survey at Howie the Liar's web site rather. . . pointedly. Suppose he'll have his goon squad track down my IP address and beat me up?
anon 4:42:
I agree that the wording of the question is frustrating. What frustrates me more is that there has been virtually no plan or cummunications about what is needed and what it will cost. Even after what happened in September, I have seen no plan or statement about what could be done or why it couldn't be done.
What's really frustrating about the way the question is worded is that it's basic message is true.
I have said it here before and I do not offer it as an excuse for the things I mentioned above (and others), but if you think that the flooding issue can be addressed in any meaningful way without a tax increase you are either the most optomistic person on earth or, more likely, not facing reality. You could take the 16.5 from the police station boondoggle and it would not even scratch the surface. Even if some of this stimulus package filters down to little ole' PR (through all the other outstretched hands), even that money would still not address the problem.
Anon@6:09 --
Based on what do you so confidently state that $16.5 won't scratch the surface?
PRU:
If your point is that I do not have experience or an engineering study, you are absolutely correct!!
I guess it depends on what one consideres "addressing the problem".
I look at the size and scope of the problem as HUGE!!! You start with the sewer system, and consider that they are all interconnected. If you fix my block I still may be screwed because the water connot go on to the next block. You also consider that in some areas the issue is related to the lay of the land (for example the water running of the golf course into the near by neighborhoods).
The city has been spending $300,000 per block on relief sewers that failed during the storm September storm.
To be clear, as I stated in the previous post, the city owes the citizens a plan about what could and could not be done and what it would cost.
But when I look at the size and scope of the problem I cannot see how 16 million would even make a dent in the problem.
Anon@4:17 --
It depends on what one considers "scratching the surface" -- what you originally said.
$16.5million is 55 relief sewers by your numbers. What effect would an additional 55 relief sewers have on the, again in your words, "size and scope" of the problem?
Park Ridge doesn't always get the sort of torential rainfall experienced during the last round of flooding, but homes in Park Ridge do experience flooding on a regular basis.
Are you ready, willing and able to contend that an additional 55 relief sewers wouldn't have an effect or maybe significantly mitigate the usual flooding?
We don't know. We haven't heard anyone tell the community anything about what may be needed to mitigate the annual soaking many people in Park Ridge are experiencing.
PRU:
I guess I would say it seems we agree on the main point of the discussion. That would point would be that the city owes a plan. I completely agree with your statement "we don't know".
The rest of your post goes to the idea of how you define the problem. I would ask were those who live in a block with a relief sewer that failed in September any more comforted watching their belongings float by in the basement?
Perhaps I will plead guility to being overly dramatic by saying it would not scratch the surface. To some degree I am in a gun fight w/o ammo. This is not my area of expertise and I an going on mainly a hunch. I think about the size and scope of the problem and 16.5 would me like me trying to get the water out of my basement with a bucket.
Of course if the city would put out a comprehensive explanation including costs, my hunch would be either confirmed or denied.
Let's see..what is our priority:
- New Police station ?
- New sewers ?
- Reduction & cap on the planes ?
- Seeking new leadership ?
- Getting our city out of debt ?
- Having coffee with Howie?
Good luck!
Frimark = no plan for flooding solution.
Frimark = no plan for filling the million dollar-plus hole in the budget.
Frimark = no plan for dealing with O'Hare.
Frimark = no plan for dealing with the casino.
Frimark = no plan for pothole prevention (a/k/a road repair/rebuilding)
Frimark = taking care of friends and campaign contributors first (see, e.g., Napleton, Norwood, Adreani)
Frimark = Bad government.
Anon @ 8:44, to answer your question about whether or not I would feel better having watched my belongings float in my basement; the answer is quite simply, YES! Yes, tell me that this is not going to happen again unless we get horrible torrential rains, and I will feel better. I can "plan" the remodel of my basement accordingly. Tell me I'm going to get water EVERY time it rains and that's a completely different story. My basement is then useless and the value of my house is substantially decreased. It's a different ballgame. The flooding in Sept qualified for fed money. People that flood regularly don't. You're comparing apples and oranges.
I agree that the solution is likely to cost a lot of money, but since they haven't even begun to address it, we don't even know what we're talking about. Just because Howie likes to stay in the dark doesn't mean I do.
Post a Comment