I would have needed this to get out of there.
View the BS slinging here (click on Jan 12 – info meeting).
First it started out about how rezoning issues with Sanford need to be handled differently in the future. Councilors point out how poorly the way notices are posted and mailed out to homeowners. Amazing. If you were opposed to how it was handled why did all of you (besides Staggers) voted for it?! You knew before the vote that this stuff wasn’t handled correctly, you should have voted NO! Saying something after the fact is a wash. If you want to send a message about how the zoning was handled you do it when you vote – not piss and moan about it after the vote at some little known info meeting. Christ-sakes-alive, please shut off your TVs and engage your brains before voting at meetings.
Secondly the Pavilion showed up to tell the community about a new program(?). They will be open from 5 – 8 PM on the first Friday of each month. Hate to break it to you, been there, done that. I suggest as the marketing manager of the Pavilion you dig up past records about your programs. BTW, it was wildly successful, so wondering why you got rid of it in the first place. You should be open every single night from 5-8 PM so people who go to school or work during the day can enjoy your programs. Of course, that would make sense . . .
Thirdly, a info meeting would not be complete without another theatrical performance by Greg ‘Grease Lightning’ Jamison and his sidekicks Vernon and ‘Biceps’ Bob Litz. I could go into a long description about windbreakers and AC/DC shirts, but ya gotta see it for yourself. It is about a new Event Center and imaginary checks. Funny stuff.
I will summarize that they now are comparing us to the Fargo Dome (I guess they gave up on the Qwest Center comparison). Well, for one, Fargo is a massive college town, there isn’t a larger events center for hours and hours away, and they haven’t sold out many events over the past 20 years (Thanks Costello for that tidbit of info). Staggers, of course is the only councilor to remind them raising retail taxes to build this is a very bad idea, and suggests they use private money instead. Then De magically makes up facts, again. ” The last poll I saw has shown overwhelming support for a new event center”- . (Paraphrasing) De does this quite a bit, so I’m challenging you De, if this is true FREAKING PROVE IT! I do agree people may support it, but not thru retail taxes. It will fall flat on it’s face if you plan to build this with a tax increase on groceries, etc. De also mentions that our tax burden is low in Sioux Falls, yup, and wages are to De.
This is an EggBert Reality-Check Informational Flashback Question and Comment:
Informational Meeting, Sioux Falls City Council, 4:00 PM at Carnegie Town Hall, 235 West Tenth Street
Members Present: Kenny Anderson Jr., Gerald Beninga, J. Pat Costello, Greg Jamison, and De Knudson.
Members Absent: Vernon Brown, Bob Litz, Kermit Staggers, and Mayor Dave Munson.
1. Call To Order
Council Vice Chair Costello called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m.
2. City Council Staff Report
A. Updates from Debra A. Owen, City Clerk
4:05 p.m. Council Members Brown and Litz arrived at this time.
4:10 p.m. Council Member Staggers arrived at this time.
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Why is there a 10-minute lapse of time before 3 council members entered the chamber for the informational meeting?*
*Aunt Bertha knows why “the boys” were late entering the meeting because she was there, looking through a window – legally stalking “Shook Me All Night Long” Greg Jams Jams (because he “looks so damn wet & sexy in his ACDC T”):
After trying various other in-effective methods in the past few months, Big Bob Schlitz and Vernal Brownie were simply seen “lobbying” their weekly opinion to Staggered for that 5-minute duration by making additional attempts to persuade Staggered to be “enthusiastic about raising taxes for the citizens of Sioux Falls to fund a new events center,” – so, as detailed by Bertha, the following took place in the Carnegie Hall lobby:
– While Mayorless Munchkin held back Staggered’s arms in firm fashion, Bob showed Staggered his Schlitz and Vernal showed Staggered his Brownie – Staggered staggered, puked, pooped a little in his Fruit-of-the-Looms, puked up a little in his mouth, then finally drooled on Brownie’s bald head. After the Mayorless One finally let him go, Staggered rushed into the bathroom, trying to forget the wonderful sights of what he had just seen, and for some odd reason tried to gouge his eyes out with a red-hot poker – Gadzooks! However, the city’s underpaid and overworked Chief of Staff Swanless entered the lobbying-fray in the nick of time, waved her magical, city-coffer-cash-filled hand, and made Staggered’s red-hot poker disappear. Then, in her true-blue, usual, and fashionable exit scheme, she disappeared in a flash of gold ivory! Thank the Heavens for her fine super- powerful gift of invisibility – so she can use her powers to protect our stalwart citizens from the evil, tax-lowering-lover, Kermitt Staggered, – to keep this city of intelligent citizens safe from lower taxes and such.
This occurrence is disturbing, but true – and Kermitt Staggered is as stubborn as one of Jed Nugent’s experimental hybrid Ass-Sheep creatures he keeps in his backyard…
Sincerely, EggBert