Yesterday’s blogging frenzy continues as there is so much to comment on. Today’s topics are broccoli, trash cans, stalled Tenney Lapham Neighborhood plan and Allied Drive. And later today, more landlord stories.
BROCCOLI/HIRING PRACTICES
Yes, I do like broccoli, both raw and cooked. However, for the record, whether I like or don’t like Mayor Dave has nothing to do with my criticisms of our hiring practices, no matter how he tries to spin it or discredit my criticisms. The fact remains, we haven’t followed our own hiring procedures and we either need to change our procedures or change our practices. The latest update is that when I asked to see the questions and benchmark answers as required in APM 2-29, I found out that while they prepared questions, no benchmark answers were ever developed. (See page 3, 2nd paragraph in the APM. “The Hiring Agency prepares a set of interview questions with appropriate benchmark answers for the final interview.”)
TRASH CANS
While some alders are obsessed with how to dispose of the old trash cans when the new trash cans come out, I continue to wonder where the heck people are going to put these HUGE trash cans everyone is going to be getting? I’m wondering how many people are going to be asking to exchange the trash can after 90 days? I was relieved when I checked in with Rob and he said we chose the medium sized cart, and we’re thinking we could have probably taken the even smaller one.
TENNEY LAPHAM NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN
When I went to the Pedestrian Bike Motor Vehicle Committee yesterday to discuss the Tenney Lapham Neighborhood Plan, I was informed that they were going to delay talking about the plan because they had just received information from Traffic Engineering. While the City Staff and the Neighborhood Association President stayed, I went to the business community meet and greet over at the Brink Lounge. However, I think the main points that need to be made at this point are that the traffic planning that the traffic engineers are so vociferously opposing at this time are already in the current Tenney Lapham Old Marketplace Neighborhood Plan and the Comprehensive Plan. This isn’t necessarily new stuff.
ALLIED DRIVE
Tick. Tock. We’ve owned the properties since last May. We had a huge public planing process last September that went no where and wasted $100,000. Now, we may have a request for proposals coming out next month, that has to pass the council, then be issued, the a group chosen and as one city staff person said yesterday, “We’re at least 18 months away from seeing anything happen.”
