Council Meeting Audio 05/24/06

Hear it all for yourself. The whole meeting (12Mb).

Sgt Charles McMonagle reading a letter from Carin Sollman.

Paragraph 912 of the Third Class City Code states:

City Property not to be Used by Officers for Gain; Penalty.
No portion of the property of the city shall be used for private gain by any officer of the city, councilman, agent or employe of said city, or any department thereof; nor shall the same be wilfully used or injured, or be sold or disposed of in any manner by any officer, councilman, agent or employe, without the consent of the council. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to undergo imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. Upon such conviction, the party offending shall be forthwith removed from his office or employment, and shall not thereafter be eligible to election or appointment to any place of profit or trust under said city, or any department thereof.

For more on section 912 forward the meeting to 1:23:10.

A Joke?

A woman walks in to a City Council meeting...
She gets recognized by the Chair and humbly approaches the podium.
The woman is frustrated but hopeful as she presents her testimony.

It seems that the woman’s block is under siege by disrespectful and dangerous drug dealers. She tells Council of her efforts to stop their activities. She also tells Council how her activities have caused her to be threatened by the criminals, and ostracized by her also fearful neighbors.

She asks her distinguished community leaders for help, because she is helpless and fears for her well-being.

The distinguished President of City Council replies, “Have you considered starting a Block Watch?”

Brilliant

We offer our hands; you slap them. We ask for your hands; you tell us to start a block watch.

Unsatisfactory

Unprecedented Precedent

We refuse to bang our heads against walls; even though our frustration increases constantly. To us, nothing is happening if our problems are not getting resolved. The list of ills sickening our home is not getting any smaller than when we started this eight months ago. We have endured many more embarrassing, frightening, and sad events since EU began.

One by one our problems pile up, and each time the citizens/voters/taxpayers of Easton are treated like children and left in the dark. We know almost nothing of the few issue “resolutions” Council and the Administration claim to have developed. And the ones we do know of sicken us.

The shame that our Administration and Council blanketed the city in is unconscionable. What we have done to Carin Sollman and her two small children is ugly and heartless. Our elected Council only exacerbated the dwindling of public trust by making the decision to only pay $5,000.00 of the $20,000.00 funeral expenses. And they did so with no explanation. But they did not do so without inflicting the vicious insult of an inane caveat. In an effort to avoid establishing a precedent of paying too much for employee funerals a resolution was passed. Council resolved that any one who ceases to live while working for the municipality will receive funeral compensation not to exceed $5,000.00. The vote was 4 to 1 in favor; Councilman Corpora cast the dissenting vote.

The precedent we should be striving not to establish is the precedent of killing people on the job. We see significant savings and moral enhancement in that endeavor.

Our leaders are doing an extremely poor job of problem solving. Nothing is getting better. And to expect us to be grateful for anything while people are being shot and killed, our children have fewer resources, and our neighbors are allowed live like pigs while their landlords ignore their bills and liens is expecting too much.

Council Meeting Audio 05/10/06

During this meeting a good friend of ours displayed some behavior that we do not look upon favorably. Our friend became upset and had an unprofessional outburst. Not acceptable.

The meeting began with a public hearing on the reallocation of $138,904.00 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. The reallocation is in a 30 day public comment period that we assume began May 10, 2006.

A Pool Picnic report was given. And the Mayor chose not to attend or comment on the event.

The volunteers are getting restless. (21 Mb)

The first 30 minutes of the March 22 meeting has finally been recovered and the podcast is updated. Thanks Spike! Audio 03/22/06 (9.4 Mb)

Your Neighbors

Pool Picnic Update

The pool picnic fundraiser at Eddyside Park on May 6, 2006 was an OVERWHELMING SUCCESS! The Friends of the Easton Community Pools owe a great deal of gratitude to everyone that donated and attended the picnic. The band, raffle donors, Chris Miccio, Julie Donovan, and Gary Bertsch made our picnic the most well attended event of an event-laden day.

In only 3 hours we were able to raise $2,510.00 for the city pools. We have also raised over $500.00 in sticker money, and we thank Mr. Peter Koehler for that!

We will post list of all of the raffle donors in the next couple of days. Pictures will be posted soon too.

Merri, Diane, Kristin, Laini, and Terrance also thank Dave Hopkins, Carl Schumacher, and the Easton Public Works crews for their exceptional support.

And we all give thanks for neighbors like Merri Cuadra, because she was the mastermind of this magnificent event. Thank You Merri!

Eddyside Pool Picnic

The pools’ fundraising picnic is at the Eddyside recreation area in the grassy area between the pool and the main parking area. The event is on Saturday, May 6, 2006 from 5pm until 8pm. The cost is $5.00 ($4.00 if you are wearing a Citywide Clean-up bracelet).

There will be a raffle of over 40 items from gift certificates of city establishments to a foursome of golf to a bicycle from Genesis. Raffle tickets are $1.00 & $5.00 and ONLY at the picnic. There will be live music and a clown. There will be volley ball. There will be fun. There will be no rain.

WWW.EASTONPOOLS.ORG

?Questions?
contact :
Terrance Hand thand@eastonpools.org
Merri Cuadra mcuadra@eastonpools.org
Diane Miller dmiller@eastonpools.org
Kristin Mernitz kmernitz@eastonpools.org

Sincerely,
The Friends of the Easton Community Pools