In response to Mark Wilde and other interested
parties:
As I understand what happened with the budget process
is that the council approved $300k for the Mpls. Clean
City campaign to be apportioned this way:$200K would
go for graffiti abatement and $100k would go into some
type of metro wide anti-litter campaign. This was
during markup and how it fared in the final budget
process I am unsure.
The thinking during markup if I am not mistaken was
that the council would cut the mayor's proposed $600k
Clean City initative among other things to keep on
track (a popular metaphor these days) with narrowing
the $70plus million infrastructure gap. Nobody really
seemed happy with the proposal but it did pass in
markup before the entire new approved budget
ultimately failed and the mayor got her way.
Please correct me if I am wrong. I hope I made things
clearer.
Now, I think the whole thing is B.S. Here is a mayor
who has essentially gutted public works services such
as picking up trash from city owned receptacles
everywhere but the so-called MALL and perhaps certain
special districts where business owners have been in
effect double-taxed for what were once basic services,
then coming back wanting to put $600k into a Clean
City Campaign which has also been taken away from
Public Works and put under Licenses and Regulatory
Services.
If you understand this rationale, please enlighten me.
I read recently in SWJournal a letter from John Meehan
od Top Shelf and his neighborhood assn(Lyn-Lake) his
disbelief when the city came around and removed three
trash receptacles because businesses had not "adopted"
them.
And last night I walked by a receptacle at Franklin
and Lyndale brimming with trash, one apparently not
yet adopted and no doubt slated for removal. I ask:
What will happen to the cups, plastic containers, etc
that are now put away in those receptacles and how can
$600k or however an amount of money be seen as
anything other than a waste of money when receptacles
are removed from the streets????
I suppose we'll get some glitzy multi-million dollar
PR campaign from a revolving door politician cashing
in complete with public service ads playing at 2am
urging all Minneapolitans to "carry it with you" or
"don't drink outside" or What????
I do not understand! Is there something in the water
in this community that a) makes people come up with
these "solutions" and b) makes us collectively nod our
heads in agreement like so many bobbleheads saying
"sounds good to me."??
Does anyone out there understand English?
Tim Connolly
Ward 7
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