Highlights of the BOA meeting held last evening, almost 3hrs of information and entertainment from our poop to cat poop, we got it all last night. In no particular order of importance:
Federal Stimulus Package Requests
Weatherby Lake has submitted projects to be considered for the Obama Stimulus program to MARC (MidAmerica Regional Council) who is aggregating metro city requests. WL requests include:
- $10 million for waterline replacement
- $9 million bury electrical power
- $750,000 street improvements
- $500,000 siding replacement of City Hall & CC
- $400,000 sewer line improvement
- $250,000 small stormwater improvements
- $200,000 stormwater abatement (Hillside/Barry)
You can see the WL requests as well as other cities in the metro by going to www.marc.org.
You can even make comments. Scroll down to the paragraph starting with "MARC defines framework" click on "learn more" then "view projects" on the right side of the page.
More to follow.
5 comments:
Mike you are a smart guy ....
Why are you listening to Rush Limbaugh ?
It's either Al Franken, Rush or Oprah.
Smart not to listen to any of them especially the comedian with the cigar.
Try Joe the Plumber he would be a political shoe-in here at the lake
Can we get Joe the Plumber to do as he did to Obama and ask the mayor to set the record straight?
Much has been said here about price fixing but I have noticed little concern about alleged secret and unauthorized payments per the report below.
With the great concern in these blogs about how we handle money and who is handling it I just dont understand why we cant get an explanation of what happened .
SPRINGFIELD -- The nation's largest dairy co-op is investigating how it handles money and who's handling it. The probe follows a revelation of a secret payment of $1 million by the former chief executive officer of Dairy Farmers of America to its former board chairman.
DFA told hundreds of its local farmers that the personal transaction was only discovered recently, and involved Gary Hanman, an executive well known many in the Ozarks.
DFA has 23,000 members nationwide. It moved its headquarters to Kansas City from Springfield a few years ago, after 30 years of growth and consolidation as Mid-America Dairymen.
Hanman ran Mid-Am and DFA for almost 40 years. He has been a key industry insider in keeping dairy farmers happy by getting them a high price for their milk.
DFA revealed that, in 2001, Hanman, then CEO, privately arranged for then-board chairman and friend Herman Brubaker to receive $1 million. DFA says it found what it calls an “unauthorized transfer” while looking at increasing its financial investment in one of its many subsidiaries.
In a letter to its 23,000 members nationwide, the co-op says both men have repaid the million dollars with interest.
DFA admits it has been under investigation in the past by the Justice Department and several state attorneys general over allegations of trying to monopolize the milk market. A spokeswoman says she does not know if the feds will be investigating the million-dollar deal.
DFA has two board members from southwest Missouri. Both declined to talk to a reporter about the disclosure. A reporter’s efforts to contact Hanman were also unsuccessful.
Did you know that people who watch Fox and listen to Rush have less knowledge of the facts than people who watch the Colbert Report
See Pew report
http://people-press.org/report/319/public-knowledge-of-current-affairs-little-changed-by-news-and-information-revolutions
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