The agenda for the special meeting --
O’HARE COMMISSION REFERENDUM INFORMATION
a. Should the City of Park Ridge disseminate information to the Park Ridge residents?
b. If so, what information should be provided to the residents?
c. How should the information be disseminated?
d. How much should the City spend to disseminate the information?
Previously provided referendum information documents --
OACReferendumInformation
Now, if our faithful PRU readers were to email a link to this post to all their fellow townsfolk, we may be able to save the City more than a mere $750.
October 12, 2010
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26 comments:
Did that commission lady really say that people told her they didn't or couldn't understand what the referendum question meant?
Really?!
Since Nov. 2008 when the surprise attack on Bellplaine began that's all we've heard about. Are you telling me that there are still people who don't know or understand what the impact is or what the commission wants?
Again...really?
This is a stitch. The first speaker, whoever she is, tells the Alderman that they themselves should distribute the pro referendum material. Does she think they are indentured servants? What if I was an Alderman and I thought this referendum was a farce and a disservice to the community, which I do, and then was told that I’m charged with distributing material contrary to my beliefs? Or let’s say I’m in favor of it (Allegretti and Ryan) and I’m charged with distributing this material when I can hardly show up to City Council meetings. Can I ask whose idea it was to set up this Committee in the first place?
The commission was the Mayor's idea.
As others here have said, people have the right to make their case. I just think it's a waste of time and money. At least they didn't vote to spend thousands of dollars on mailings.
Diversity initiative people!!!
Let's get some of those repo'ed houses and turn them into cess pools to stop the flooding. We could then build houses on stilts above the cess pools and move in low/no income residents to bolster the diversity initiative.
It's for the best of our fellow man!!!
Anon@1:54 --
Yes, it's 5 o'clock somewhere.
If nothing else...the painstaking plodding it took to get through the language and legal issues re: the referendum information should have been instruction enough for some of the doofs in the room to begin to understand...efforts taken by a municipality to "provide information" on a referendum question is probably NOT a very good undertaking and leaves the city vulnerable...
"Taken as a whole," the referendum information (even with the edits) is clearly an attempt to persuade voters, however subtly, in favor of voting "yes" on the referendum, because, "taken as a whole," the facts are all "warnings" and "negatives"...
Buzz probably should have gone with "the most conservative" advice.
12:41
NO WAY???
Anonymous @ 5:33,
Actually..."no way" is more accurate. The idea for the o'hare task force was the "brainstorm" of former Mayor HOward Frimark.
The appointees, however, are all Mayor DipSchmidt's...and the original cast of characters on the task force were *originally* all ORD-REST people...now there are two?/a few? who I don't believe were part of the original ORD-REST group; Ms. Kim (musta got "permission" from Madigan) Biederman, and Mr. George (CORRECTS/clowncil cameraman) Kirkland.
...and Alderman Carey's initial request to be named to the task force appears all the more interesting, in hindsight...
.........and of course the Mayor was very much involved when ORD-rest kicked off.
Anonymous @ 6:56,
Yes...Mayor DipSchmidt was as unaware of the coming of the new runway opening as HOward was...
Forming an airport task force was HOward's "answer" to his having ignored the issue for the previous 4 years.
Cozying up to the ORD-rest contingent was DipSchmidt's "answer" to "feeling their pain"...while he was campaigning to become mayor.
Bean:
I agree with you comment. I just thought it was worth poiningt out again, especially considering the piece written by his "PR agency" today.
"It is bad government for our public officials to indulge the penchants of these private organizations for siphoning tax dollars out of the City treasury without any accountability......"
Seems to me Schmdit is guilty!!
...heh...Mayor DipSchmidt isn't the only "guilty" party on that count...seems said "PR agency" and the Mayor have no problem with non-profits, potential use of tax money, and trading on social and political connections...when [she's] got a big smile and throws nice parties with plenty of free beer and liquor...and previously promised a nice fat campaign contribution...
The inconsistencies of thought and actions are staggering.
seems like liqour is a common theme.
Anonymous @ 7:54,
Cheers!
Tell you what. I'll pay the City $750 not to run the ad. Or I demand the City pay another $750 to inform the citizens of all the positives of the new runway.
The best thing we can do is get a Congressman that will listen to us, represent us and work with us in our local issues. Joel Pollak, GOP 9th Congressional Nominee, has held many coffees and Town Hall Meetings throughout Park Ridge. He wants to represent us to Washington, not represent Washington to us. Want results with O'Hare issues? Joel Pollak is our answer.
Joel Pollak is our answer? Really?
Well then I guess we should all dance in the streets, at least until November 3rd when the this Tea Party reject crawls back into hole he crawled out of.
Anon@10:07 --
Are you offering a guarantee that candidate Pollak will produce results? What exactly are the results he's promised to produce?
So far, on the issue of O'Hare, we haven't heard Mr. Pollak say a single thing different from what his opponent, Ms. Schakowsky, has said.
If we're wrong about that, we would appreciate your offering a quotation with cites for our edification.
There is one thing that makes me very suspiciois about Mr. Pollak. I'll give you a hint....it starts with the letter "T".
Was any city tax money actually used improperly by the mayor? Was there any contribution made to the mayor's campaign by anybody who got the benefit of tax money,other than the website contract with American Eagle that has been mentioned here and on the other blog?
Anonymous @ 10:27,
Not as far as I know...the development plan hasn't gotten very far...just a lot of behind the curtains maneuvering and glad-handing...and requests for "support," in various forms, for the proposed non-profit development...
...kind of like when former Mayor HOward Frimark was meeting with EOP developer Norwood Builders, down in Florida and other places, before anything was publicly proposed...except EOP wasn't slated to be a non-profit venture.
10:27AM:
I read your response to Bean's comment. It has me scratching my head. I do not want to put words in your mouth, but it appears to me that you are offering a defense against what Bean said by asking about the results. While I agree the results are important, I cannot help but recall how all those against Frimark talked about the "coffee meetings" he had and his circle of friends. It would appear very little has changed in that process, except the beverage is a bit stronger than coffee. I would remind you of the words of a "great man"......
"Finally, transparency of our City government not only empowers its citizens, but it builds bonds of trust between those citizens and their government which carries with it the goodwill that unites a community in common efforts toward common goals. That is why I consider it a keystone of my campaign for mayor of Park Ridge".
-Dave Schmdit
A11:28,
Dave Schmidt did not write those words. He merely put his name to them.
10:27
I think the point is there are some who bitch about nonprofts and the use of tax money and social connections in some cases, but support nonprofits and the use of tax money and social connections in other cases. The only difference is weather they are friends.
A12:47,
And there are some who bitch and moan and demand transparency until the same is demanded of them; then every imaginable justification is used to avoid living by their own words.
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