By: spitfires

spitfires — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:35:28 +0000

I’m not surprised at the budget increases. City worker’s need to continue to earn more than the constitutients and must have better benefits. {When are the residents going to get it together and mandate tax paid officials and employees not earn more than the mean constitutient Wage?}You didn’t mention the failing Mahn Tiff district’s first payment due this year to the tune of $360,000 which isn’t available from revenues generated from this already refinanced tiff, or the empty solid waste fund. Will we see another FEE? This council wants more tiffs that are not well thought out but are just more get rich development lures. Oak Creek, historically has suffered administration by persons not competent to financially administer. NONE of the current reps have a clue on how to manage and forecast future spending. It’s like the guy up in Rowan’s estates subdivision said,”I kinda like having a dick for a mayor.” Says alot about the quality of our elected reps. They don’t listen as each has a secret for self gain agenda. Can you imagine an alderwoman with Manufacturing property on Howell Ave? WHY? How about a mayor with an interest in 50 acres of farmland under the nation’s 6th largest coal producing power plant? Whats he got up his sleve with Ald. Toman, The Lake Bluff development? (Any one seen Dick Platt Lately?) Why is the intersection on 32 and Oakwood starting to look like the design of 32 and Fitzsimmons? Is this the new unannounced entrance to Bender Park? What about the 20 million in WIS PARK Funding? Whats going on behind closed doors on these projects that we don’t know about? City officials appear hell bent on developing now before the plant is up and running in 2010 spewing even more pollution into So. Eastern WI dirtest nonattainment air zone. People are just stupid to think they are going to live here and maintain their health and property values with a very high tax base on the basis of old debt and depleted reserve funding. Oak Creek is doomed to become Franklin’s warehouse district. Many will be trapped unable to sell even at less than fair market value as no one is going to want to live here. To make matters worse, MMSD has to expand the south shore treatment plant. Out the window goes the expensive Lakeview/Carrollville redevelopment plan. Oak Creek, like most US suburbanite cities located on the south side of a major city is doomed to become a slum. In this case we are not a bedroom community we are THE BATHROOM COMMUNITY of Milwaukee. We probably should have accepted Billy Lee Munford and all the rest of the Dept. of Corrections Sexual Predators and at least be guaranteed a steady and increasing revenue flow.

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