Not the ‘Official’ Flag of Sioux Falls, but pretty close
PROJECT TRIM TO BE SUSPENDED FOR ONE YEAR
Because of the Emerald Ash bore the city of Sioux Falls will suspend Project TRIM for a year. I think this would be a perfect opportunity for the city council to re-vamp the program and make it into a partnership between homeowners and the city. In other words if you want to trim your boulevard tree, the city will give you that opportunity, otherwise they will take care of it, at no charge and no fine.
STATE VETERAN’S CEMETERY ON HOLD
For some odd reason at the city council meeting Tuesday night the Veterans cemetery land gift was withdrawn by councilor Kiley instead of just deferred. He mumbled something about not getting the right people together to finalize paperwork. I find this incredibly suspicious. The local vets have been fighting for this for over a decade and now all of sudden they can’t get together for a simple meeting to finalize things? I have a feeling the Feds or the State are dragging their feet and Kiley didn’t want to say anything since the donations have started to come in already. Funny how we have so many resources for dead soldiers just not much for the survivors.
WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF FALLS PARK SAFETY
Before blowing our wad on $300K on viewing decks at Falls Park councilors Starr and Stehly have suggested that an actual safety study is done by a 3rd party after Starr took several photos of adults and kids dinking around on the rocks.
SOME CITY DIRECTORS AND COUNCILORS THINK PUBLIC AMBULANCES ARE FUNNY
While I was promoting Public Ambulances at the Informational meeting I was told that the City Health Director Bride of Franken was laughing it up with the manager of Paramedics Plus. Apparently they found something hilarious about public ambulances, something that works fantastic across the country in thousands of US cities. I also caught councilor Kiley (who is turning into Rolfing Jr.) laughing at me when I pointed out the super secret operations committee. Surprised that so many people in city government hate public input, seems to me it’s like a comedy show to them.
IT’S NOT A PRECINCT (EVEN THOUGH IT REALLY IS)
Recently on KSFY, Mayor TenHaken, his Deputy COS and the Police Chief have been talking about ‘Report to Work’ stations. But Burns and TenHaken have been adamant that they are NOT precincts. LOL. But they will work JUST LIKE precincts. But we can’t call them that because we need to save face after the fiasco before the mayoral runoff election.
Whatever you want to call them, tie them into the fire stations with a public ambulance and you take care of many birds with one stone.
NEW SCHOOL IN WHITTIER NEIGHBORHOOD MEANS BYE-BYE TO 43 AFFORDABLE HOUSES
Let’s talk about progress. In order to upgrade the Whittier Elementary they have to tear down 43 houses. Why not just move the school and put it on an already empty lot and sell the current location. As we saw with the old Longfellow, these old schools can be repurposed, quite economically (funny how the school district hasn’t figured that out).
l3wis 
