Friday, March 15, 2019

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely"

Charles Schulz.

Miss me?  I have been planning to jumpstart the blog, and after a number of comments and some cajoling from certain individuals recently, here we are.  Those of you who have been loyal followers from the beginning may recall the blog was birthed just prior to the City elections some years ago (you can dive into the archives if you have forgotten or are new).  So here we are a few weeks to go until the April 2nd election.

What is interesting (at least to me) is there are no contested races within the City.  The Judge (Folkedahl) and Aldermen (Footer & Richmond) are unopposed.  One year after the election of Steve Clark Steve as Mayor, Don Hoy as West side Alderman and re-election of Tanya Finn on the East, all seems well.  Business is getting done, without acrimony, the new Chief of Police is settling in and George and his crew survived a challenging winter.  Nice.

There is some ballot business that deserves your attention and vote.  There are Special Road District Commissioners for some of you (I'll explain later), Park Hill School District Board members and a tax proposal for building a new County jail.  More on the tax issue later, but I wanted to post the coming "Education Sessions" hosted by the County beginning tomorrow.

Parkville YMCA, March 16, 10AM
West Platte Fire Station, March 18, 6:30PM
Platte City YMCA, March 19, 6:30PM
Riverside Community Center, March 21, 6:30PM
Camden Point Fire Station, Camden Point, March 27, 6:30PM
Platte County Resource Center, March 28, 6:30PM
infoplattejail.com

Stay tuned, all of this and more coming.

Special shout out to Nick in CA, far-flung Weatherbean!

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