Well let’s get a second helping;
• Water and Sewer rates are raised again, and again, and again.
• Stormland TV does several stories throughout the year about the late school start date, but fails to show any evidence that the late date has any ill affects on the students. I guess the new super has been known to tell people recently, “It doesn’t matter when school starts, we will work with any date.” And that’s coming from the top dog.
• The mayor continues to ignore the violent crime increase in town, eventually blaming mental illness without offering a plan.
• The city of Sioux Falls goes through two diversity directors within a couple of months. Still no word if a permanent person has been picked yet.
• The mayor gets out of taking the stand in an important hearing by getting an ’emergency’ colonoscopy. Yeah, I know, several jokes there.
• While mayor Mike has no problem cutting people off after 5 minutes, he goes on over a 9 minute rant at the Minnehaha County Commission meeting during public input about saving his Lake Home’s swamp.
• Mike gets mad at the media for asking him if he controls the thermostat at Carnegie, but has NEVER answered the question to this day.
• Cameraman Bruce and I get press access to Sanders, Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton rallies yet the city still refuses to treat us like press.
• Touchmark at All Saints finally gets approval from the city council to build their expansion (and it is quite beautiful) now hopefully the tears will stop flowing down Phillips Avenue.
• The Terrace Park Neighborhood association is successful in stopping the destruction of paver stones, the city turns around and punishing them by putting off improvements for several years.
• While city hall celebrates the $27 million dollar RR relocation project it still does nothing to stop rail traffic through DT, in fact it will make it more frequent.
• The Lacey Neighborhood successfully fights the first bout with city hall over a development. They break with tradition by testifying on the topic before a first reading to council.
• We lose the battle with stopping the $25 million dollar city administration building allowing ONE PERSON to decide on borrowing the money.
• Andra Day rocks JazzFest.
• Detroit Lewis celebrates 25 years in this fine city, August 2016.
• I predict back in August that Huether may switch to independent.
• The F-35 Lemon Noise machine doesn’t pick Sioux Falls as a base option, and we can all hear a little better.
• After councilor Stehly gets gaveled by Council chair Rolfing, she comes back stronger then ever.
• City of Sioux Falls Health Department, REMSA and Paramedics Plus decide to implement a secret strategy for ambulance service. We still have no idea what it is.
• After millions of state and city taxdollars are dedicated to foundation park, the proposed developments pull out with NO signed purchase agreements.
• The Jesus Plows return while the city makes a maternity clothing store paint over carictures of pregnant women. Nobody can see the plows anyway since they have been sitting in a parking lot so far this winter.
• Like a cheap whore, the city parks department sells Spellerberg Park signage to a cable company setting precendent.
• Trump wins the Electoral College becoming the 45th president of the United States and the bott0m falls out of the SD Democratic Party, then they pat themselves on the back.
• The Indoor Aquatic Center opens with a package of lies and low attendance numbers.
• The city’s only daily paper has huge shakeups. Hopefully they recover.
• A sleepy DT neighborhood tries to stop a modest church sign, until the council approves it.
• The wind haters continue to win in Lincoln County, but it may go to a public vote.
• The city council decides to visit a local watering hole for some fish bowl drinks. One councilor that did not attend was embarrassed she wasn’t invited.
Trubak, Franken, Cooper, and Pfeifle all need to depart city government at the same time as Mike.
Where is John Hult of the AL when you need him?
Anyone who travels 6th and 8th Streets between Weber and Phillips knows that Warren Buffet’s BNSF Railway happily took the feds check for 27m and then disappeared when it came to maintaining the tracks along these two busy streets.
Five tracks run through this area. Three of the five tracks will be removed in the Railroad Relocation Project. The transfer of BNSF land to the City of Sioux Falls will take two years from the date of signing.
The two tracks that will remain are being maintained, THE THREE TRACKS WHICH WILL BE REMOVED HAVE RECEIVED MINIMAL MAINTENANCE FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS!!!!
Check it out, it’s very obvious to anyone who drives through that area. Jagged metal, holes in the tracks plugged with who knows what….
They say, the railroad does want it wants with little or no local control…..
Guess they are right, especially now that they have the $27,000,000 in the bank!
Correction: They say, the railroad does WHAT it wants with little or no local control…..
Name something positive. How depressing. Tells me we desperately need a new mayor and 4 councilors. You forgot the ‘Arc of Dreams’ tribute to Saddam Hussein. Also, the bumpouts downtown where citizens can deploy a red cape to play ‘bullfight’ with traffic. I’m imagining AI Uber cars bumping over bumpouts like speed bumps. Honorable mention, the city choice of architect. They sign off on the impractical, overpriced, and inferior designs.
If anyone misses the TV comedy ‘The Office’, another script called ‘Huetherville’. There’s so much incompetence, it’s comical. If we pay councilors 10k per episode, we might get something practical once in awhile by accident. Put it in their contract they must tattoo ‘L’ on their forehead.
2018, I suggest you add Kearney, Cotter, Kiley, and Smith to your list.
Not Cotter. He’s managed to keep his budget away from Huether foolishness. Without him, we’d be paralyzed for transportation and drainage infrastructure disrepair. He was a kid under Munson but is now a fully mature civil engineer. It wouldn’t surprise me if he left for a better offer elsewhere.
Smith, what has he done for us lately or ever. Kearney because he politically separated parks from the city. Even a separate logo. Cooper because he’s a super tree hugger salesman, not a city planner. Turbak for cooking the books. Have you been by city hall lately? That’s not employees working for a change. It’s paper shredders going 24/7.