clarification

Is Mr. Stiff saying he has NO PLANS to submit a bid on the new gym in the future? Or is he just waiting until after the election? The 280k from the bathrooms is STILL missing on the City Managers watch. The Giglio fiasco was botched from the start and his responsibility. The CC disaster and missing money there is still on record as occurring on the City Managers watch. The handshake deals at the pool are still in place, and Gyms responsibility. Etc etc. To say that I have SERIOUS doubts about the City Managers performance, or lack of same, is an understatement of gargantuan proportions. I say AGAIN- if elected, and my other Council members want to give the City Manager another six months to redeem himself from his dismal performance for the past five years, I could probably live with that. A re-evaluation would be made at that point and a vote of confidence held at that point. Dr. Mel P. Johnson

commentary

The funeral home and the pawn shop items were pulled, for some reason, and not addressed. The ex-chief sent an email to Gym, at Gyms request, regarding what the ex-chief said regarding the warehouse police station in the proposed annexation areas. Dilling and Dotsons recollections of that conversation are different. The City Manager is unhappy because Dotson rightfully took him to task for Giglio disaster, among other blunders. I agree we must look beyond the daily dustups to the bigger picture of what needs to be done in the coming months. Tax revenues will surely be down, and just as surely, city officials will raise our taxes to compensate for their allowing several hundreds of THOUSANDS of our tax dollars to disappear on the bathroom and Country Club projects. We could have used that money NOW! How can they hold a ground-breaking for a project that hasnt been approved yet? Have the variance problems been worked out? I thought that was in the works, but not completed yet. Anybody know? IF several hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars disappeared in their last two project, AND THEY DID, how many MILLIONS do you think will disappear with this gym project? The two prior construction projects both came in at more than TRIPLE the actual costs- triple 6.8 million and you will get an idea how much this one could easily cost us. Absurd. Ridiculous. Bankrupting? Dr. Mel P. Johnson