ms carolyn devoe
nbh busybody extraordinaire
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but enough brass and humor- you may disagree; but at least its fun debating; arguing; or as alice roosevelt was fond of saying
"if you have nothing good to say about someone- come sit by me"
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HEY PAL- YOU'RE FIRED.. LOL
HASTA LA VISTA
VIA CON DIOS AMIGO! ADIOS!
we don' need no steenking cucarachas ! ( treasure of the sierra madre movie line lol)
tee hee
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SAVE MAYOR HENRY'S RIGHT HAND MAN- FROM BEING FIRED; BECAUSE WHO WILL REPRESENT MAYOR HENYR ON THE PERMANENT CAMPAIGN TRAIL?
NEVER MIND THE NBH PRESIDENTS MEETINGS ARE BROADCAST ON CALBE TV- HAVE NEVER HAD DECENT QUALITY SOUND- ITS SHTTY QUALITY- YOU CANT HEAR THE CITIZENS /NBH PRESIDENTS; THE PODIUM MIKE- IS WAY TO LOUD- DISTORTION; ECHOS ETC-
YOU WOULD THINK WITH THAT MUSIC MAN (FLIM-FLAM MAN LOL) CHUCK SURACK AND HIS MERRY BAND OF SOUND ENGINEERS AND HIS CLOSE "BUTT BUDDY" RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MAYOR HENRY AND HIS CRONIES- OLD CHUCK WOULD BE WILING TO DONATE SOME DECENT SOUND EQUIPMENT AND A TECHNICIAN TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY SOUND FOR THESE IMPORTANT MEETINGS? AND IN EXCHANGE - MAYBE A FREE "BILLBOARD; SIGN- BEHIND THE PODIUM- SUCH AS "SOUND SYSTEM PROVIDED FOR CITY OF FORT WAYNE IN EXCHANGE FOR "PROMOTIONAL CONSIDERATION"?
SOUNDS LIKE A WIN-WIN TO ME-
ANYWAY- YEARS NOW
PALERMO!
THIS JOB IS FEATHERBEDDING- A "PAID TO CAMPAIGN FOR CITY COUNCIL AT LARGE IN 2019 JOB- SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS SO AS TO BE RIDICULOUS.
MUST BE NICE..
- ANYWAY- SO LETS DO AWAY WITH THE nbh ASSOCS AND INSTEAD HAVE A FULL COMPLIMENT OF GOP & DEMOCRAT DULY ELECTED PRECINCT COMMITTEE PERSONS VICE CHAIRS AND BLOCK CAPTAINS- SEEMS TO ME- THIS WOULD BE A FAR MORE POWERFUL; BETTER SYSTEM O F NBH ORGANIZATION- DUE TO THE- ELECTED POSITIONS; AND TWO- THE ABILITY TO REMOVE OR CAUCUS IN VACANT SEATS AND A DULY ELECTED POSITION THROUGH THE STATE; COUNTY CITY ELECTION SYSTEM- WHERE AS THE NBH ASSOCS- ARE A SCAM AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED- THE ELECTION OF SAID SAME; THE WAY NBHS ARE RUN BY "POWER MAD TIN POT DICTATORS; AND"SQUAKY WHEEL BUSY BODIES WHO STICK THEIR NOSE IN THEIR NEIGHBORS BUSINESS AND SO ON-
YOU ALL KNOW i COULD GO ON WITH THIS TOPIC- BUT HERS CAROLYN DEVOES OPINION-
AND SINCE THE SWAC IS IN THE JASON ARP 4TH DISTRICT AND GEOFF PADDOCKS 5TH; WELL- THIS BULLHORN IS OUDER THAN MOST UNTIL 2019-
( DEVOES A "BULLHORN- TEE HEE)
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It's Halloween time, and the skullduggery at Common Council in Fort Wayne is making me witchy. Here is my letter to the gentlemen responsible for the care and keeping of our City. By the way, I believe we'd do well to add a few women of high intelligence and courage to this group.
October 24, 2017
Members of Common Council
Sirs,
Intentionally or not, there is a devastating pattern emerging from Budget Proceedings at Fort Wayne City Council. If not intentional, there is a “hyuuge” lack of listening skills around that oval table. If intentional…
An ancient adage goes that “Knowledge is power.” It could be said that communication expands knowledge. This may explain the reluctance on the part of some in Common Council to share information with the citizens of Fort Wayne as we see in the proposed budget request to eliminate the position of our Neighborhood Liaison, which is to be discussed on Tuesday, October 24, 2017.
Last week our Common Council voted to limit the City’s communication with the outside world as they withheld from our legal representatives the funds to hire a part time lobbyist at both the Indiana State House and in Washington D C. While we work determinedly to become an up and coming market, a city where people come to live, work, play and stay, you decided to stop protecting our citizens’ best interests against those state legislators who would dictate that the telecom industry may place poles anywhere they choose, or tell us who will or will not be allowed an Air BnB , or assure that plastic bag makers will thrive all over our land. And tossed out communication at the national level. For a mere $40k, or approximately fifteen cents per citizen.
Why?
This week’s issue is an attempt to limit communication within the city, and among its participating citizens. The Neighborhood Liaison is a key communication position in maintaining our volunteer army of Neighborhood Associations and Partnerships who provide labor for the Great American Clean Up, and BioSolids days, who plant trees in the parks, push to keep recycling efforts at top performance, carry petitions for zoning, traffic planning assistance, and work hand in hand with law enforcement.
Among these to whom this action would deny communication are dedicated neighborhood advocates who make up the Sewer Task Force. The Task Force’s efforts saved our City approximately 75% of the potential cost of our Federally mandated sewer improvements. You may notice that cities one half the size of Fort Wayne, who did not have a task force to resolve those issues, were assessed twice the amount Fort Wayne must pay. It is easy to believe that our assessment could have neared one billion dollars had there not been evidence of immense concentrated effort on the part of Fort Wayne. That, dear Councilmen, was all volunteer effort by the Neighborhood Partnership citizens of Fort Wayne. Free. You paid nothing for those services. I doubt you ever invited even one of them for so much as a cup of coffee.
Do you truly believe we won’t publish these numbers, and call you to shame that for the cost of one Neighborhood Liaison position, you would jeopardize the communication of the Administration with groups of concerned Sewer Task force participants who met for twenty-five years to effect change, and who saved the city some $750 million in federal assessments? By the way, federal assessment is another term for that dreaded word TAXES.
Next, we will talk about the Take Home Police Cars, with computers, and the immense manpower savings that program brought about by eliminating mandatory, in person at police station, shift changes, with the assistance of the Neighborhood Partnerships. Then on to report on the absolute hell we had to raise to establish an effective Neighborhood Code Compliance and Weed Program. Later, we must discuss our action in helping to add to our LOIT (taxes) for first responders and now for sidewalks, alleys and the Riverfront.
Is this the group you wish to keep uninformed?
Really?
Do you have the first clue of what we shall be to deal with if we are without the Administrations’ communication? Paul Helmke would give you a hint. Think very carefully. We are not going away.
You may only imagine being a Council Member is a part time job.
As ever,
Carolyn De Voe
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more:
will live based on one issue? What about quality of education, ease of transportation, best medical care available, cultural opportunity, social services, environmental awareness, quality of air, safety in our neighborhoods, the ability to find and build friendships with like minded people, ease of advancement, connectivity with all socioeconomic levels, satisfaction with our sharing of resources with the hungry, aged, ill and homeless? I believe we offer a lot, and that we still have immense achievements to strive for, of which the Riverfront is a very small part.
http://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columns/20170803/the-city-that-sells-itself
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Thursday, August 03, 2017 1:00 am
The city that sells itself
Forget the expensive new amenities -we already have everything we need to attract young people
John Kessler
John Kessler, an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and head of the IPFW Center for Economic Education, is an economics instructor at IPFW.
“Governor Eric J. Holcomb today signed an executive order creating a new cabinet-level position in state government to serve as Indiana's chief talent and recruiting official.”
– July 27 news release
Will the economic development projects currently being pursued by Indiana make the state more attractive to young people? I can't foretell the future, but I doubt that they will.
What politicians think will attract young people may not be what young people are really looking for. I recently had the opportunity to travel to Providence, Rhode Island, to teach economics at a summer camp at Brown University.
On the plane, I sat next to a nice young woman in her 20s who was traveling to Rhode Island to do some training for teachers. She is a teacher at a charter school in Silicon Valley who uses technology to teach, and she was coming to train other teachers how to use the program.
As we talked about education and life, she mentioned that she had a serious boyfriend and they wanted to get married and have a family. The problem was they weren't sure how they would ever be able to have a family or buy a home – even with her teaching income and his income as a firefighter – because of the cost of living in the Bay Area.
I hear stories like this all the time when I travel – people complaining that the cost of living has risen so much in major cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco that young college graduates are not sure whether they can afford to live there, even with a good job. Housing prices are a major part of the problem.
One young man I met while at UCLA this summer was really excited because he was recently able to find a place to stay in San Francisco for $600 a month – he rents the closet in someone's apartment and sleeps in a hammock. My young teacher friend from the Bay Area is paying $3,000 a month for a small two-bedroom apartment and she said the closet seemed like a really good deal. I then told her that there was a place where for less than half that amount one could buy a 3,000-square-foot house with a three-car garage and a quarter acre of land. Her eyes lit up in disbelief, so I told her my story.
I understand her concerns about the future. My wife and I lived in Phoenix. The cost of living was high enough that we needed two incomes to make ends meet for just the two of us. My wife always dreamed of being able to stay at home and raise children, and we were not sure how we would ever swing that if we stayed in Phoenix.
When I got offered a job in Fort Wayne, the primary reason we decided to move from Arizona to Indiana was because we could afford to have a family in Fort Wayne. We said goodbye to friends and family and set off on an adventure to make the life that we wanted, not because of Parkview Field and a thriving downtown, but because Fort Wayne offered the promise of the future that we wanted.
Today we have four children, all born in Fort Wayne, and my wife has the privilege of living her dream as a stay-at-home mom.
We don't need a $100-million riverfront development to attract young people – we already have everything they are looking for. We just need to embrace it and advertise it. If Fort Wayne wants to attract and keep young people, we should pursue policies that continue to make our housing affordable, make our city safe and make our schools great.
Then we should go to San Francisco, Chicago and New York and advertise the low cost of living and how college graduates can move here and build the life that they want. They don't need a city created in the image of what politicians of a different generation think is attractive
Instead, they will create the “cool” city that they want. They will come and they will make the city fun and exciting just by being here.
As we landed in Rhode Island, I handed the young lady my business card and said, “If you really want to get married and have a family, there is a place you can move and afford to do that. Come join me in Fort Wayne, Indiana.” She laughed as she replied, “I already wrote it down – Fort Wayne. If it is as good as you say, we are already packed.”
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