City Council's agenda
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10:29 AM
Monday, December 8, 2008
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11 Comments:
Thanks Jenn, for posting the meeting agenda, Jon used to do that. Helps me decide if I want to attend and I do want to attend tonight.
Did anyone attend last night? Was not able to make it.
Jen - any highlights?
Cheers.
Disregard my last question. Just saw the lowlights of last nights meeting in the DL.
With the shortfall you have to wonder why Mr. Walker allows his buddies who have been issued citations, due to noncompliance of local ordinances, to have them withdrawn?
I guess my question is - doesn't the city manager work for the council and needs their approval? Seems like he's walking all over them. So what does that say of council if he is making decision and having meetings behind their back?
Why is it that it seems no one cares about what is going on in the City? Where is the DA? There is corruption worse than the Jansson rein. Some one needs to stop them, and some one will, the Amty
Questions to ask:
Walgreen was recently granted conditional and final approval almost without modification. Why was the Carl Chetty thrown out of the room in a virtually identical scenario when he asked for conditional and final approval in 2006 virtually killing his project?
Why is the pension fund in the hands of a company that no one has ever heard of?
What happened to $110,000 in codes fines to one person that the Commonwealth Court said the City of Coatesville could collect?
Why does Richard Legree spend so much time at City Hall?
Why were Andrew Lehr, (who has nothing to do with the RDA), Harry Walker and another Chester County resident in secret negotiations with power plant CEO’s at a Southern Chester County Tavern? Was the real money in the power plant proposal not in taxes but cash running through the fingers of certain local people that would have been part of a Coatesville Power Authority public/private consortium?
Why was the Financial Director abruptly fired when he was not a work due to an auto accident and a consultant who is apparently not-qualified hired to do the budget?
Are the city employees going to start snitching to save their own behinds?
Corruption with the Janssen reign? Paul was working very closely with the FBI.
I didn't see anything in the agenda that would promote public attendance.
It is too hard to sit on hard chairs and watch a table of clowns make decisions that never get us out of the HOLE.
Why would the City want a pharmacy located in the down town of Coatesville that does not except the Arcelormittals insurance? So, the pharmacy will be within walking distance to the Counties biggest employer, but no one will use it because they do not take their insurance. This City is so bizarre it is scary.
not that i support them, but the city is not putting anything anywhere. A private company decided to buy the land and build a wall greens. There perogitive.
If you think about it, the new health center is a half a block away. Sounds like a cash cow to me. I wopuld think you might be able to get get dome food there as well. bread, milk, eggs, junk food etc.
Cash cow? Don't know about that. I think its a start. The Walgreens is good and its a start. We need to start pushing stores from East to West through Coatesville. We desperately need some new direction. Spending money on fixing up a train station when no one is using it doesn't make sense. Maybe getting a couple of sponsors to pay for improvements with the sponsors getting advertisement for it instead of tax dollar might be a better idea. Seems like the City Manager and the council can't think outside the box. Why? Because most of them have never worked in a business before with a budget where you need to think outside the box. No disrespect to them but its clearly obvious that if people with business experience were on the board they would not settle for the answers that Walker is giving. They would be asking questions like - when you signed the contract with the consulting firm for the new software was the contract worded to include training of additional staff. This is standard in the business. To omit this means clearly the person in charge didn't know what to ask. Further the City Manager seems to not be able really try different ideas to help to fix things (other then use sale of properties) to resolve the issue. When you signed up Matthews and he did not meet his goals what would be the fallout? Termination? Suspension? I find it funny that Walker had no problems suspending Gordon (at full pay) but did not do the same for Matthews for living up the bylines of his contract. This shows clearly the lack of experience by the current administration. Any competent administrator would have terminated the contract like that of the finance director. Listen I don't have all the answers but I do this, when times are tough we need to slow do and make sure we ask the tough questions and make sure we're doing it right. I just don't believe the people in place right now have any idea of what to ask and how to push.
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