The vast majority of people who owe the city of Toledo money for razing nuisance buildings, cutting grass and weeds, or clearing away debris never pay up.
Over the past two years, the city has collected just $35,000 out of $4.1 million billed to current and former property owners.
Councilman Tom Waniewski Newsletter - June 2008
Refuse Update
A federal judge yesterday sided with a group of
carry-out owners and ruled that the city of Toledo cannot begin
enforcing its new convenience store licensing law.
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is expected to
announce today that he has hired a director for the city department
charged with attracting jobs, assisting businesses, and coordinating
economic development projects.
Friday morning an exclusive interview with James Hartung, President Toledo/Lucas County Port Authority on the intermodal facility and his vision for Toledo Express. No one else has had the line up of experts on this topic that WSPD has had and if you need to catch up there are podcasts at www.wspd.com
It’s official! “Neighborhood Picnic on the Lawn”, sponsored by Bethany Lutheran Church, Toledo Block Watch, and, GateWay Marketing Online is being held in August!
Bulldog Bob is getting out early. Why ? Don't you think that a public official should be held to a higher standard and serve his full time ?
Toledo City Council agreed yesterday to keep the Erie Street Market operating for the rest of the year, but postponed a vote on a purchase agreement to sell the building and other city-owned land for a development that would drastically change the city's downtown and Warehouse District.
It's not easy to think for yourself sometimes. Often it's easier to listen to the people "in charge" tell you what they want you to believe without any critical questions being asked. No one wants to appear to be an ass after all. But without the critical questions and often negative appraisal we are left with people following like lambs to the slaughter.
Sheep follow the leader. People should think for themselves. Take the facts as you know them and make up your own mind. Attend meetings so you can see for yourself what the politicians say and how they behave. For too long citizens have relied on what politicians say in front of a microphone or camera when we all know quite often they are covering something up.
After reading the entire business plan and attending the council meeting Tuesday, I am more convinced than ever that the ESM is not a viable business. The plan as written by a recent grad of UT contains no real specifics on how the plan will be implemented but rather is a rehash of ideas tried within the last dozen years.
As the only Talk Show host in attendance this afternoon at the City Council Comittee Of The Whole meeting it's obvious others will be spending time catching up by getting the administration side of the story. That's fine because both sides need to be heard. The side you will hear on my show tomorrow is what I heard and saw , unfiltered through a politicians need to get reelected.
A proposed $4.2 million deal to sell Toledo-owned property along Swan Creek downtown for an eventual river walk development could face tough scrutiny today from some councilmen who think the city might shoulder too much risk.
City and County leaders. Lets finish one project at a time. Let us see if the public will support these projects before spending us into a hole we can not recover from.
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner today is expected to announce a tentative, multimillion-dollar agreement with California-based Tetra-Tech to purchase several city-owned parcels, including the Erie Street Market, as part of plans to develop a Toledo Riverwalk near downtown.
A Toledo councilman wants the 19,300 senior citizens in Toledo who own homes to be exempted from paying the city's controversial trash fee - even though the current monthly fee eventually will drop to zero for people who recycle at the curbside.
Finkbeiner reroutes project funds to pour $250,000 into road fixes
"The Finkbeiner administration is abandoning plans for a bike path at Greenwood Park and slashing nearly all planned funding for a new dog park to direct another $250,000 toward repairing the city’s streets.
I am not in the Councilmembers district, but, wanted to share the newsletter with those that are.
Collins
Corner
Two weeks before Toledo City Council approved the
2008 general fund operating budget Tuesday night, Councilman Joe
McNamara had questions about the number of staffers working on the 22nd
floor of Government Center: the mayor's office.
In case you missed the show today Judge Kuhlman was not a happy man when it comes to Toledo City Councilman Michael Collins. Listen and find out why.
Check out more interviews @:
troyneff.com
Toledo City Council's arduous debate over the city's monthly refuse fee dragged on yesterday with no resolution in sight.
Troy Neff Show: Michael Collins Will Vote NO on the Budget Strictly in Protest
Michael Collins tells Troy that he will vote no on the budget strictly in protest. He explains how the negotiations went at the law and criminal justice committee hearing in addition to mythical contracts that no one remembers negotiating.
City finds $1.1M for beefing up budget
The news of the found money — which comes
from an uncashed-check fund — was a surprise to council members who
were briefed yesterday on revisions to Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s
proposed budget during a 3½-hour finance committee meetin
"Mayor Finkbeiner's proposed budget depends on $4.8 million to be collected from the trash fee this year."
"The mayor's budget is tight. It calls for a total reduction in city
staffing of about 52 full-time positions, including three out of the
mayor's 22nd-floor staff."
Reliance on a tax that is based on people that live in the city, all the while, the population declines and the leadership fiddles a tune, while the population declines and the amount of revenue from it declines, but the recycling fee is not a fee but an incentive to reduce or trash, sure it is....
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