Former City Hall employee specializes in ‘Crisis Communications’
l3wis Let’s just say Heather has a lot of experience in that department . . . LOL!
UPDATE: City of Sioux Falls says citizens have to hire their own legal counsel to fight 5G
5G Antenna by Eastside Sioux Falls Target
In correspondence with the city’s legal department, an advocate opposed to 5G, John Miller, received this letter from the city; (DOC: 5G-Letter)
I found this part interesting;
The taxpayers of Sioux Falls OWN the utilities and all of the equipment associated with the utilities. Â The city has said that the poles are not strong enough to hold the 5G equipment and that Verizon is going to have to put cement under the poles. Â That is a change that SHOULD to be approved by the taxpayers, thus it should to go to a referendum. Â Legally, the changes proposed by the city council must be approved of first by the taxpayers in an election. But since no one asked, city hall didn’t let the taxpayers know their rights. A little trick City Hall has played for many years – don’t tell citizens what is going on, have only back room meetings with the major players, then tell the public once it is too late to do anything, or at least have time to organize. Could this be illegal? Not sure. Every city has a constitution (charter), a document of formation. Â You will find that Sioux Falls probably needs public approval before doing something as fundamental as allowing a private corporation to change the way the utilities operate.
Can we stop 5G in Sioux Falls? Or is it too late because we ‘missed the boat’?
UPDATE: Remember me telling you that the City of Houston, TX rolled out 5G the same way Sioux Falls did, which triggered the industry to give Mayor Turner a CITA award.
Let’s talk about Mayor Turner and just how corrupt he is, TenHaken could be so jealous;
“More than 70 percent of the money that has been donated to this mayor comes from people doing business with the city,” Buzbee said. “It spiked in the last six months. Do you know why it spiked? Because they finally figured out how they’re gonna distribute the $1.18 billion that’s coming from Washington and so now people are in — these engineers, architects, consultants —out of state entities.”
Just go back and look at TenHaken’s donor list.
Sioux Falls City Council Agenda, Jan 22, 2019
Informational Meeting, 4 PM (Carnegie Town Hall – SF)
Storm Drainage overview presentation
Lincoln County Joint Meeting, 7 PM (Commission Chambers, Canton)
Rezone of Ag Land to Commercial Property, more SPRAWL in Lincoln County.
More staff changes at Sioux Falls City Hall?
The 2019 City Employee salaries was supposed to be posted already. Last year it was posted by Jan 8th.
I’m wondering if the delay has to do with some ‘rumored’ staff changes?
Supposedly the ADA Coordinator resigned this week, and two managers were hired to work under Jason Reisdorfer as an IT Manager and an Innovations Manager.
If any of this is true, all I can say is this is what happens when you hire someone with only a HS Diploma to run a massive department, they need some qualified people to do the actual ‘Heavy Lifting’. Maybe this is why TenHaken hired Beck? Not sure what bet he lost that forced him to hire T.J. TypeOver?
Not sure what happened with the ADA Coordinator. I do know that the past mayor did appreciate her in the position, so it may have been a ‘philosophical’ disagreement with the current administration. It is probably a very stressful and demanding job, and maybe she just needed a break? I also know that TenHaken has been mysteriously silent about his feelings about the LGBTQ community.
UPDATE: Kettle meet Black
My first reaction to the kerfuffle over the banning of the Municipal League’s Chief Lobbyist and Director was complete laughter. It seems to be a couple of ‘Whackies’ going at it. I wanted to call Haugaard and ask him to ban her for life.
Either way, it doesn’t seem he has the legal authority to ban Taylor based on free speech rights.
But also in defense of Taylor (though it pains me) I thought she was a little light on her criticism of 20% of the legislature being ‘Whackies’. I would set that bar much higher, like closer to 90%.
But what makes the situation even more ironic (and down right funny) is Taylor and Haugaard both are on the anti-citizen team when it comes to proposed and passed legislation. Steve’s party consistently is working against the good folks of South Dakota, and so is Taylor (just on different playing fields). I would say they have a heckuva a lot more in common than differences.
UPDATE: For instance there is a DRAFT bill the Anti-Citizen League (my nickname for them) is pushing to repeal the law that basically would ban public input at all public meetings EXCEPT regular meetings held by city councils and county commissions. In essence going backwards. The ACL has long hated public input into anything and has strived for years to let muni’s pass sales tax increases, that they say would ‘Sunset’. Nothing ever sunsets, especially tax increases.
COPY OF DRAFT:Â Open-Meeting-Cleanup-DRAFT
Highlight;
In a corresponding email, Taylor says, “Hi, all – attached is the copy of our re-write of the open meeting laws. The intent is clean-up, readability, and clarification. This has been a long, negotiated process, and in its current form, the newspapers are OK with it. I will appreciate you thoughts and comments, and am happy to answer questions.”
The ‘newspapers are OK with it.’? What about the citizens?! You know, the people who pay your wages! Sneaky, Sneaky, Sneaky, Snake.
With Haugaard’s recent ‘banning’ of Taylor, I think it is finally time for Sioux Falls to cut our ties to the League and stop wasting approximately $70K a year for their ‘Lobbyist’ help. They are not helping. As I have argued in the past, we have a city council operations manager and a deputy COS, T.J. TypeOver who can handle our lobbying needs.
I also wonder what our very Republican City Council Chair, Erickson, who has long been a defender of Taylor’s actions thinks of this latest ripple? Seems she is in the best position to alleviate the situation. My solution? FIRE Taylor and send Haugaard a Thank You card with a copy of the Constitution.