First council meeting of the year. I wanted to live-comment on this, but a biblical tantrum by our 8-year-old made that impossible.
What was covered:
Skate Park: this wildly over-budget project will soon be finished. Now council is trying to get ahead of the inevitable graffiti and vandalism problem. Guys like Mike White tried to tell us that these skaters are just average kids who want a place to skate. They aren’t hoodlums or anything.
Yeah, right. We’ll see in a big hurry. You can rest assured, I’ll document every penny spent on fixing that $180,000 bathroom that is adjacent to the skate park. Council is EVEN considering letting people paint all over this and calling it “art”.
No, I’m not kidding.
Harrison Construction received $27,500 for “skate park work” and another $7,220 for “road base” and “manufactured sand”. That would be “Harrison” as in “Greasy” Chris Harrison – former City council member who also works for S2M2 and connived the City out of $185,000 for the Brodie Estates subdivision – which is nowhere NEAR done yet.
Wastewater Interceptor project: I don’t care about this much. This is the kind of boring shit that City managers SHOULD spend their days doing – as opposed to crap like Business Parks and new council chambers projects. All I will point out here is that Pope Eckermann was paid $35,250 to do the study.
Another new police officer sworn in: how many is that now??? Jesus. Guess I better ask the City secretary.