In a message dated 3/17/2007 12:41:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
so please let me know if we found out UCD was writing tickets. Glenn didn't say (or I missed it if he did) that "UCD was writing tickets." He wrote " UCD, had a heavy hand in" the ticketing. Several years ago, when I was clinging to ideas like "partnership with the community" and accordingly trying to work with UCD, I was meeting at the Old Horn & Hardart's with one of the organization's former top people -- D L Wormley. The phone rang and she took the call. It was SWEEP Officer Joiner. D L read off a list of four or five addresses where she was telling Ms Joiner to go. After she hung up, she turned to me and explained, "they're the worst offenders." More recently, shortly before the NID initiative hit the fan, UCD convened a meeting of the nascent "Landlord's Network." Attendees were invited to raise issues we thought were important. Dan DeRitis (of the liquor store brouhaha) stood up and complained about the fact that when the trash tickets arrive, they're months after the fact so nobody knows who the actual guilty part was. By what we were supposed to believe was a sheer coincidence, Officer Joiner was there. She explained that she turns them in daily and the delay is in the Streets Dept processing procedure, and there was nothing she could do to reduce the delay there. Lewis Wendell was suddenly struck with an inspiration. If Ms Joiner would bring the tickets to UCD, he'd assign someone to make photocopies and send them out to the property owners overnight. Local curmudgeon who is against everything that I am, I objected to the idea that UCD, which was not accountable to anyone but its patrons, was interposing itself into the middle of a "police powers" process of the city government. They ignored my objection and started doing it. I lodged an official complaint with both Councilwoman Blackwell and Streets Commissioner Tolson who put an immediate stop to the practice. So, unless you'd like to call me a liar, you now have two pieces of empirical evidence that -- as Glenn stated -- UCD had a heavy hand in the ticketing, at least then. Al Krigman Left of Ivan Grozny ® ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
