Mayor ‘disappointed’ by increases in midst of city financial pinch
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner yesterday urged City Council to reconsider the pay raises it recently handed out to six council aides, and one councilman pressed his colleagues to put the matter to a vote.
"Toledo may have a $3 million to $5 million general operating fund deficit by year's end, and city officials may lay off more than a dozen employees within days to stop the red ink.
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner's administration has yet to decide which cost-saving strategies to pursue, but it is seriously considering layoffs along with voluntary and temporary work furloughs among other measures.
Carty tells us that revenue is down in Toledo. And cutbacks are coming.
One of the revenue items he talked about was the Red Light Cameras!
That the revenue was down from the cameras.
WHAT ! I seem to remember that King Carty said that it was NOT about the money or the revenue from these cameras. He said this in defending them and the additional cameras that were being put in.
Things heat up on the show after Frank Szollosi calls out the Mayor and Bob Reinbolt about not taking responsibility for what happened at the Erie Street Market. After hearing Frank on the show Bob Reinbolt and Michael Collins call the show.
Well, the mayor has his sacrificial lambs"" for ESM.
Denny Schaffer and Troy interview Mayor Carty Finkbeiner at the Democratic
National Convention and Carty breaks the news that McCain and Obama will be in Toledo on Sunday.
Morning podcast:
the mayor wrote then. "We can and will disagree. But let us do it civilly. The citizens expect us to act together to advance the city."
Mayor shares blame for political feud, Toledo council trio says
A longtime plan to develop 125 acres on the waterfront in East Toledo could be in jeopardy as the city's developer has been unable to secure a letter of credit to back part of the Marina District project.
Representatives of a proposed deepwater container port in Nova Scotia are expected to sign a "strategic collaboration agreement" with Toledo port officials when they meet with local leaders and visit Toledo's port facilities today and tomorrow.
Lucas County commissioners today are expected to decide whether to put a 0.16-mill, five-year additional levy on the November ballot to reopen COSI.
Yesterday, representatives from four local businesses said they would escalate their efforts to campaign for the levy — and would help the museum create new exhibits if the levy passes.
Toledo City Council President Mark Sobczak shied away yesterday from the city taking over operations of Toledo Express Airport and Metcalf Field - one of four options proposed by the director of both airports.
"I think the city is probably not best suited to run the airports," Mr. Sobczak said. "The port authority has been doing a good job."
The Lansing-based owners of Toledo's largest vacant building - the 30-story, former Fiberglas Tower - have a new plan to clean the asbestos-contaminated hulk of a structure and transform it into a collection of office space, condominiums, and a hotel, restaurant, and health club.
The total investment could top $35 million, said Nick Eyde, a limited partner for the Eyde Co.
Today while driving in my neighborhood, I saw a "No Loitering" sign posted on a telephone pole. Is this enforceable and if so how?
How do you know who is loitering and who is just shooting the breeze with their neighbor?
The Finkbeiner administration seems to be bowing to pressures from Toledo City Council and has agreed to take a close look at Erie Street Market records from the past two months detailing how nearly $80,000 was spent to renovate a section of the building into a concert venue.
The city of Toledo will sell water to Sylvania residents at a cheaper rate in exchange for a share of income tax for all new development at Flower Hospital, the mayor’s of both cities announced Monday.
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said the agreement would bolster the city’s tax revenue.
City employees are reminded of these facts regularly: Money is tight. Fuel is expensive.
So when Don Czerniak, president of Local 7 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, learned Mayor Carty Finkbeiner had left his city-owned sport-utility vehicle idling over the weekend for more than 30 minutes, he said the action was hypocritical.
View video of Mayor's court proceedings. He was put in jail for violating terms of travel.
Guest host Brian Schwartz and the Mayor talk about the Erie Street Market, life after Jim Hartung, and Carty answers the toughest question he has ever been asked.
"A study about vacant properties in Ohio released earlier this year said vacant and abandoned properties cost Toledo taxpayers at least $3.8 million in 2006 in demolition, boarding-up, grass-mowing, and trash-removal costs.
Councilman Collins report and comments about upcoming meeting with regards to the Erie Street Market.
http://toledoohioneighborhoodconcerns.com/blog/media/images/collinscorne...
Well! Here we have it again. Carty Finkbeiner, our illustrious Mayor, has shown his middle finger (figuratively) to the taxpayers of Toledo, and to the Toledo Police Department.
Reported by Paula Johnson
Posted by Nick Dutton - email
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTOL) - Saturday morning News 11 cameras caught Mayor Carty Finkbeiner in violation of parking, safety and green living codes of conduct. His car was parked illegally and left running for nearly 45 minutes with his dog Scout inside.
In its quest for answers regarding the expenditure of $80,000 in taxpayer money to renovate part of the city-owned Erie Street Market, Toledo City Council yesterday took the unusual step of subpoenaing a concert promoter selected by Mayor Carty Finkbeiner to renovate and revitalize that venue.
The announcement, presented by the Dept. of Neighborhoods, is as follows:
RESIDENTS & BUSINESSES WITHIN THE AREAS BOUNDED BY
Greenwood Avenue, Spring Grove Avenue, Idaho Street, and Navarre Avenue,
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A "MODEL BLOCK" PRESS CONFERENCE
ON MONDAY AUGUST 4, 2008 @ 11:00 a.m.
The months-long battle between Toledo Municipal Court judges and Toledo city officials over the court's budget is now in the hands of another set of judges.
The seven municipal court judges filed a petition in Ohio's 6th District Court of Appeals Thursday against the city, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, and the 12 members of city council.
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