Posts Tagged ‘Transparency’
Basement Flooding Remediation Program – Utilities & Public Service Committee Meeting
Utilities and Public Service Toledo City Council meeting - Topic is an update on the Basement Flooding Remediation Program. Ashford, Webb, Ludeman, McNamara, Sarantou, Waniewski present - Collins also in attendance. Craig arrived after the meeting started. Ashford thanked the administration for allocating funds to address this. He said April [...]
Flash back to 1998 – Housing Fund Updated!
The following was a Toledo Blade editorial, published on Monday, March 16, 1998. As we start to cover the whole Housing fund saga, I think this flash back would be helpful: TOLEDO city council is expected soon to discuss the city's eight-year-old commitment to use net profits from the Summit Street Parking Garage (now known as the Superior [...]
Sears District Hours
This in via e-mail from the office of Barbara Sears Ohio House District 46 Representative: Rep. Sears to hold district office hours Columbus—State Representative Barbara Sears (R-Maumee) today announced that she will be holding district office hours on Wednesday, August 4th. The office hours will be held from noon – 1:00 p.m. at [...]
Agenda Review July 27
Sarantou, Waniewski, Webb, Brown, Collins, Copeland, Craig, Ludeman, Martinez, McNamara present Res. - Approving report of Assessment Equalization Bd. for Downtown Special Improvement Dist(SID) Determining to proceed with enhanced public services in Downtown Special Improvement District(SID) Levying assessments in Downtown Special Improvement [...]
Misinformed ignore facts
A recent Michigan study found "when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds" according to this article written by John Michael Spinelli, "Will 'Ohio Truth-O-Meter' fix facts for 2010 elections? Michigan studies say beliefs trumps facts" (link). It is [...]
Optional furloughs
This morning Lucas County Commissioners voted to create the option of elected officials and staff taking up to four unpaid furlough days to help balance the 2010 budget as reported in the Blade (link). A previous proposal to require three mandatory furlough days without pay was tabled when Commissioner Ben Konop was unable to get the support [...]
HR IT & Finance Committee
Short version, budget appears to be on track, more will be known in August when the new financial management software has been updated. Red light camera revenue is down from what was predicted, delinquent tax collections are up. The following are notes from the Human Resources, Informational Technology and Finance Toledo City Council committee [...]