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@00:44 mark -- Citizen George Kirkland addresses the City Council on a non-agenda item -- suggesting the Council consider a different definition of a "dangerous animal"
@03:43 mark -- John ? asks why the video gambling ordinance is not on the agenda
@05:16 mark -- Finance and Budget Committee of the Whole begins
@05:38 mark -- Committee begins discussion of Special Events agenda item
@07:38 mark -- City Manager Hock recommends the City Council approve all future permits for special events -- let the games begin!
@14:18 mark -- Director of Finance, Diane Lembesis begins her financial report
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Begins with continuing discussion of Dir. Lembesis' financial report
@01:30 mark -- Ald. Bach reveals he's never owned a dictionary and therefore does not understand the difference between debt and deficit
@16:40 mark -- City Manager Hock suggests the Council may wish to move the goal posts
@21:40 mark -- Ald. Wsol again displays his devotion to subsidies
@25:15 mark -- Procedures and Regulations Committee of the Whole begins
@48:56 mark -- Council prepares to vote on amendments to the Historic Preservation ordinance, offered by Ald. Ryan, and the video ends.
Cue Carly Simon's Anticipation!
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September 29, 2009
Video From 9-28-09 COW
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9 comments:
One of Wsol's favorite cliches is to say "Figures never lie, but liars often figure"
Too true, Francis, too true.
I was taught that....Figures don't lies, and liars don't figure.....being remotely likened to Wsol even cliche-wise makes me want to go shower away the grime.
For Alderdumb Bach:
Main Entry: debt
Function: noun
Date: 13th century
1 : sin, trespass
2 : something owed : obligation~unable to pay off his debts
3 : a state of owing~deeply in debt
4 : the common-law action for the recovery of money held to be due
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Main Entry: def·i·cit
Function: noun
1 a (1) : deficiency in amount or quality~a deficit in rainfall
(2) : a lack or impairment in a functional capacity~cognitive deficits~a hearing deficit b : disadvantage~scored two runs to overcome a 2–1 deficit
2 a : an excess of expenditure over revenue b : a loss in business operations
Off subject - For a very short time I attended Stroger fest at the Summit. Not well attended by the public, mostly residents of the Summit, lots of empty chairs. He probably knew he had a captive audience. If he was really interested in what the local public thinks the event would have been scheduled at a time when working folks could attend. Oh well, I don't think anyone's ever accused him of being particularly bright.
Anon@2:42 --
Working folks aren't the folks Stroger is concerned about.
You said it PRU, if you can't reach the goal, move the goal posts. These guys are unbelievable.
Watching that meeting was enough to make one's head spin. Wow. It is truly never ending over at 505.
And Hock and Lambesis ought to turn in all of their previously awarded budget awards they claim to have "won". For the two of them to "move the goal posts" as you refer to it is ridiculous. I think Lambesis actually said: if you don't make the goal you can always change the goal.
Diane, Diane, Diane... it's called a budget variance and you need to know how to measure it, explain it and avoid it in the future. You don't just change the goal/budget and say you made it.
Geez. And Bach... you gotta give up.
PRU @ 2:44 from Anon @2:42 -
Silly me, working folks are just taxpayers. Of course Stroger doesn't give a rat's patootie about them. He's too busy hiring busboys @ $60,000/year to do goodness only knows what. And his relatives too. Ah, patronage! Stroger is a total putz!
To U @11:40 --
NFW. You were warned. Now go dig yourself out using a vehicle provided by somebody else.
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