Something pretty hilarious happened at last night’s council meeting.
Early in the meeting, Finley got up there and told City council that, yes, the recycling program loses between $8,000 and $10,000 per year but that it “provides tremendous value” to the City. Not a single council member questioned this demonstrably false statement – especially not Cathy “Porkchop” Kuehne. She just sagely nodded her head as mayor pro-tem.
Less than an hour later, the City Finance Director delivered her report. In it was the news that a company who gave the City a $1,990 bid for a maintenance contract actually made a mistake and the NEW amount was going to be $9,964 – or a difference of about $8,000.
Kuehne, who has blithely okayed wasteful spending that has literally run into the MILLIONS (Hostess House, pavilion, recycling program, free money to developers, ‘business’ park, pre-fab bathroom at Campbell Park, etc) had the audacity to actually speak up and question this $8,000 expenditure! LOL.
She actually uttered the phrase “that’s a BIG chunk of change” [go to 42:55 mark]
So to recap: the City locking in an annual $10,000 loss on an idiotic recycling program forever is just fine. The City wasting $1.4 million to give the Hostess House a “face life” is just fine. The City giving Finley a $10,000 raise in the middle of a pandemic is just fine. The City spending $32,000 extra on an elevator for OCH remodel to “keep it local” is just fine. The City blowing over $6 million on a “goat pasture” that has zero tenants is just fine.
But an $8,000 one-time error by a company on a bid is “a HUGE chunk of change”
This woman seriously has a screw loose. She has no business sitting on City council. Somebody, for the love of God, please run against this nitwit for her council seat.