Sept 6
You would have to been present to understand the quote from Mayor/President Jerry Bos. And because some of his sayings don't make much sense or pertain to the subject at hand...I will spare you the details.
The subject of the Special Board Meeting was the request by the President of the Entrance Advisory Group Committee, Jerry Bos, to approve an expenditure of up to $4,000 of money set aside for monuments to build a test pylon @ Kerns & 76th.
I know my keen readers will pick up the detail of the current EAG President being Jerry Bos. The previous leader Jim Miller has resigned and somewhere along the line Mayor Bos was elected the new President/Chair of the EAG. When this happened is unknown, possibly this past Tuesday morning at an early morning meeting of the EAG. In any event, Jerry did not inform the Aldermen (or the public) at Tuesday's BOA. He did discuss the aspects of Tuesday morning's meeting in regard to spending $. It was only by the direct question from an alderman on the composition of the EAG did Jerry inform the BOA of his new position as President. Odd. Transparency isn't one of Jerry's strengths.
Because of the relative newness of three of the aldermen (with the exception of Finn) a fair amount of time was spent going over the history of the EAG (rather painful since this spans about 5 years).
Bottom line is this, the EAG has around $22,000 in the bank. The $70,000 of pledges outstanding are "soft", the target to complete the monument project is around $110,000. Obviously "the community has to bring money in" (Bos). Despite this issue, the EAG has decided to forge ahead. They have identified a vendor in St Joe who says he can make pre-cast cement pylons for around $4,000, compared to the current pylons which cost about $11,000. The idea is to build a demonstration pylon @ Kerns and 76th, with the possibility of doing the same at the last three monument site (Potomac, WestSide, Kerns/73rd Terr.
Lots of questions regarding the cost of maintenance of the monuments to the Mayor/President. He says the goal is to have zero maintenance planning for the sites, which means lighting and water for the most part not being incorporated in the sites to be built.
So the vote was to spend the $4,000 for the test pylon (Clark voted no).
3 comments:
all I know is the monument thing seems half-assed with not much of a plan. It is like Potomac is on another planet.
Not just Potomac is on another planet, this Mayor doesn't realize there is a Westside on the Lake.
Insanity defined: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
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