Councilwoman Lindsay Webb is holding a meeting to share thoughts and ask questions regarding the Dog Park Proposal for Ottawa Park. Meeting is Wednesday the 16th at 6:30 in the basement of the Moroe Street United Methodist Churh (3613 Monroe Street, Reeder Hall).
Dog park at Ottawa park meeting with Lindsay Webb
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A dog park is fine, as long as the people who want such a park are fronting their own money and not sucking the tax teat.
Yea, casuse tax monies are only dispersed when it can benefit everyone, right?
A 'Dog Park' is being proposed, but yet the City of Toledo may not be able to afford a new Police or Fire class?
Okay....funny. This is a joke, right?
posted by GraphicsGuy on Jul 15, 2008 at 04:53:07 pm #
From District 5 Councilman Tom Waniewski's July 2008 newsletter :
Well the floods came again, and boy did I hear about it! I've talked with the mayor's office about this. The city has no money I'm told.
Yet, two weeks ago, Toledo City Scoundrels voted to waste $6,900 a month of taxpayer money on utilities for an allegedly energy inefficient building that for some reason continues to house COSI.
And don't forget the sweetheart deals Toledo government hands out at times :
VIVA South Toledo now owns the former south branch library. Council Tuesday agreed to sell the property on Broadway for 10-thousand dollars. According to the County Auditor's website, the current value of this property is $213,500.
And I guess we're now suppose to forget about the January and May 2008 council votes that supported the continual dumping of taxpayer money into the Erie Street Sinkhole, which has already burned through millions of taxpayer dollars from the local and federal governments.
The Erie Street Market opened in the former Civic Auditorium in May, 1997, after the city allocated $2.7 million in federal Housing and Urban Development funds and $1.8 million in city funds to restore the deteriorating structure.
And how much taxpayer money has been pumped into ESM since 1997? Why is the local government involved in retail?
One of my "favorites" is the flower vote from the spring of 2007 :
Council voted 7-4 to approve Mayor Carty Finkbeiner's request for $39,900 to contract with a landscaping firm to plant flowers at and maintain 22 gateway gardens. Ms. Shultz said she opposed the urban beautification effort when it started several years ago, but now considers it critical to attracting new businesses and visitors to the city. "The city looks beautiful and clean and those are two things businesses want," Ms. Shultz said.
At least Toledo does NOT have to worry about being accused of electing intelligent people to office.
I haven't heard how the meeting went; anyone have an update?
The City truly needs to focus on maintaining, if not improving, its parks for PEOPLE, rather than create new ones for dogs. Westwood Park on McGregor is often overgrown (grass to the knees) and littered with broken glass, used condoms, etc... Trilby Park is in better shape, but could really use daily attention and clean up.
These are suburban parks. I can only imagine how ill-maintained others in the city proper are.
Ball fields are also not maintained well. Look at Waldorz-Szabo on the Eastside, Highland Park, and Sterling on the South End. Twelve-fifteen years ago, these fields were at least minimally maintained, the fences/facilities/bleachers in good shape, and the parking lots paved and cared for...Now, they are in complete disrepair.
I also found that there is a petition to put one at the Lucas county rec. center.
http://www.petitiononline.com/k9park/petition.html
posted by transcom on Jul 14, 2008 at 08:49:11 am #