Today at the informational meeting the consultants for the Riverline District recommended we build a new convention center. Well isn’t that funny? When you pay a consultant they usually tell you what you want to hear. Well Craig Lloyd is involved with the land deal, and rumor has it that an elected official with the City of Sioux Falls’ spouse is brokering the deal. Can you say massive conflict of interest!!!! (I’m still collecting information on that, hopefully have an update soon).
Well Mr. Lloyd decided to step to the microphone at public input and proceed to tell the council and public that unless we rid ourselves of the homeless downtown none of this development will happen. Well Craig, what have you contributed to the solution? You would think someone who has received millions in tax rebates and other housing grants would throw a couple bucks at the solution? Oh that’s right, he is only interested in taking.
I have a new nickname for these folks, The Original Downtown Panhandlers!
Curt Soehl asked during the presentation why we got rid of the trolleys because we could have used them to run shuttles from the Convention Center to Downtown. Another empty promise from the last mayor.
But the public input at the regular council meeting was glorious.
One gentleman asked why we have a policy of closing the indoor aquatic center when there is lightning outside. He even researched other cities and NONE of them have the same policy. Can’t wait to hear the response. I told someone it is because city staff is F’ING LAZY and any excuse they can have to NOT work they will find it. A former building inspector told me once that the forestry manager spends 60 hours a week trying to get out of 40 hours of work (he is retired now). I have noticed that after covid ended and the city employees went back to regular office hours they are still in covid mode. Tell me the last time you have seen a city employee besides mowing grass or filling potholes?
Tim Stanga returned to inform the council that his grandson was shot with a pellet gun and the cops never showed up. He said after 30 minutes, an officer called him and said, “Do you need an ambulance.” and he responded, “NO! I need you to come to my house and file a report because this is assault.” The officer responed, “You need to tell the neighbor kids to stop shooting your grandson.” Must of learned that directive in cop training.
A lady from Elkpoint who had showed up before to talk about the lack of access to our city government (YAH THINK!?) complained about the fact when you go to city hall you are greeted by an officer. She said it wasn’t very friendly and welcoming. Just to remind folks, we have security at city hall because some random transient walked into Paul’s office early in his first term and stole a Coke, and they had him on camera. Leave it to Poops to turn a funny incident into a paranoid episode of terror and danger, you know, kind of like that RACIST mural he rejected. Tone Deaf!
And finally the cat neuter dude showed up. So he catches stray cats, neuters them and then throws them back in the wild.
What do you think?
Should we just neuter them or should we euthanize them and be done with it? I am on the fence about it because stray cats carry many diseases that they can pass on to household pets, some are deadly, so I’m not sure what we are accomplishing besides putting a bunch of sterile diseased cats back onto the streets. Maybe one of my smartass readers can convince me otherwise.
l3wis 
