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2018

Curt Soehl SF City Council Sioux Falls

When we let a former mayor and councilor ‘plant’ candidates, this is what happens

l3wis 9Comments

Kinda like Michelle, but less frowning.

Curt Soehl is turning into Michelle Erpenbach, but worse. At tonight’s council meeting he tried to play Michelle’s old trick of ‘I need to remind the council’ that she/he knows better. He got his butt schooled by a former city attorney (Brekke) about motions.

This is what happens when we continue to hit the ‘recycle’ button on elected officials. I warned voters that Curt was recruited by Huether, Erpenbach and their ilk. I warned the Unions they were making a huge mistake. Now we have another councilor who thinks they know everything about procedure while ignoring citizens by not answering phone calls.

You should have voted for DeBoer.

School Funding SF School District Sioux Falls Taxes

Even with record building permits, why can’t the school district trust capital outlay to fund new school construction?

l3wis 2Comments

First, the puzzling news today that the school district doesn’t have a Plan ‘B’ if the bond fails. I would think if it fails on September 18, they would quickly go back to the drawing board and present another bond to be on the ballot in November. Makes you wonder if they are just assuming they have it in the bag. Things that make you go ‘Hmm.’

But what is even more puzzling to me is that they don’t want to pay for these schools through the capital outlay by raising levees when we have had close to a decade of record building permits. With all this new commercial tax revenue coming in (and housing prices going through the roof) you would think it would be a cake walk to just borrow half now and pay down the rest through the levees?

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

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Neighborhood associations reimbursed for ‘Bouncy Houses’

l3wis 1Comments

If you don’t think there isn’t government waste, you should be watching the Sioux Falls City Council work session right NOW.

Adam Roach with the city (in charge of neighborhood associations) explained to the city council about how he used part of his $50K a year budget for neighborhood associations to reimburse a park party for a bouncy house ($2K) and even more strangely, landscaping and a flag pole (both in city parks).

Obviously the bouncy house is not a good use of tax dollars, and as several city councilors pointed out, shouldn’t the flag pole and landscaping be a part of the parks budget?

This is what happens when you give ONE person a bucket of money within government; Bouncy Houses.

Developers Development SF City Council SF School District Sioux Falls tattoos Taxes TIFs

UPDATE: Sioux Falls City Council to Dissolve TWO TIF’s on Tuesday

l3wis 2Comments

UPDATE: It seems they are moving forward with a ‘Market Rate’ apartment project and this is why the TIF is being dissolved. Funny how a TIF is now not needed since they are going to build apartments that they can charge whatever for rent. Further proof all TIFs are is developer welfare.

Many people have been asking about a supposed project North of Sunshine Grocery Downtown that received a TIF and why it hasn’t proceeded.

It seems that TenHaken administration is taking action by asking through resolution to have the council dissolve that TIF and the TIF that COSTCO never accepted. As I understand it, Norm Drake from Legacy is somehow involved with the Downtown TIF (part of it is where the current temporary dog park is located) and COSTCO opposed their TIF from the beginning because they don’t like how TIFs take from public education funding.

As I have been saying about the $190 million dollar bond issue, why are we borrowing so much on the backs of homeowners while wealthy developers are getting tax rebates? Just another reason why the Bond issue AND TIFs are flawed.

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