The Official Unofficial Minutes of the WL BOA
August 4 Mtg
Sorry for the gap, had pressing stuff the past few days
Finance
Jerry once again mused about the cost of having street lights in the City, "some people want the street lights out". The annual cost is about $40,000. Jerry cited Platte Woods as a community without lights. No comment by the Police Chief but I have to believe he has concerns over safety and security in a city without lights. Ironic in that the plans for the Entrances have accommodations for lights, guess the bad guys need help in finding us in the dark.
Our financial statement for the first six months is to be published in an unnamed paper, "according to the rules".
No news on the audit of 08. Jerry reiterated the Audit Committee "can't figure out why we want an audit" The BOA is set to consider the issue at the next BOA...if there is a full BOA. Audit wasn't discussed because of the absence of alderman DeJong.
The City agreed to a settlement with ATT and will receive $37,560.93. Part of a multi-city MML lead lawsuit (KCMO got 10MM) (we still have T-Mobile as a holdout). No discussion of what will be done with the money-it goes into the general fund "kitty".
The valuation of the City declined $1MM dollars which will affect the levy process. Look for a Special Board meeting this month to set the levy for next year. Jerry wondered out loud about "why does the city do the Park Board levy". Odd because he had already received feedback from the PB on the levy...maybe he forgot.
Odds/Ends
Alderman Finn announced the first 6 months recycling results. 73 tons of recycling and 8 tons of paper. That is a lot of stuff for a little community...and just a fraction of us recycle at WL.
October 13 is the BOA meeting date in October, the first Tuesday is being left open so BOA can attend the MML annual meeting in Lake of the Ozarks.
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Absolutely insane to opt for a black-out the city! We're an established neighborhood with quite a lot of vegetation and trees, OF COURSE it would be a safety and security issue! Can you imagine the headlines?! "Life is so good at Weatherby, they can't pay the light bill!" (Mike, maybe that should be your next contest -- write the headline!)
And, what it would do for the property values/ marketability of our community? Platte Woods as a comparable? Gimme a break! I hope this was another mumbling from Jerry's simply because he doesn't have much to report re: all the things he's promised recently. If not, and we continue to hear about raising 1/2 mil for entrances, I'm going to flip out!
No, this idea on street lights off
came from Mary Hoy. At a city meeting she requested that the board would look into turning off the street lights, so to save money. She said that Platte Woods was doing very well without street lights.
How much did Platte Woods spend on entrances?
That could explain why they cant afford to pay for lights
no curbs, no sidewalks...no lights? Geez Jerry, lighten up!
Oh my God! Those stupid expensive entrance signs and then turning off the street lights! I've listened before to a couple of aldermen's (past and present) train of thought and wondered how they function in life. Our city is scraping the barrel in city representation.
This can be explained along with other unexplainable thinking and behavior with a little known local legend
Walter Freeman often vacationed here in the past while driving his lobotomobile across the country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0aNILW6ILk
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