ES Transportation Committee Meeting

The E. S. Committee on Transportation will meet Monday, November 19, 10 am, City Hall.

Mayor Calls for an Immediate Cease to Violence against David “Fuzzy” White

We asked Mayor Joy if she had a response to the vandalism recently experienced by David “Fuzzy” White, owner of a taxi-limo service whose right to a franchise is being challenged in a referendum.
Here is her response

Vandalism in the Taxi-Limo Wars

The mood is ugly, the civility factor at its lowest ebb. It is an increasingly hateful world that has been manifesting in the taxi-limo wars.
That was made clear in the vandalism perpetrated against David “Fuzzy” White.

Correction

In an article on CAPC Executive Director Jim Williams’ handling of Angelo Yao, after noting that Williams treated Angelo as if he were stupid, we said:

Ramblings

One thing for sure, the Willie concert hall was fixed up and looking mighty good.

Visiting the FOIA

FOIA– that’s the Freedom of Information Act assuring us that government meetings will be open to the public, records of government business be made available, and the media notified of those meetings so they can report out. There are very few exceptions– executive sessions (where personnel only can be discussed), grand jury deliberations, prison information [...]

New Fire Chief Talks CPR

We stopped Eddie Davis after the last Council meeting to thank him for his most professional presentation in his role as our new interim Fire Chief. It’s become almost a thing of the past given our current department heads, sallying forth into a bad temper like CAPC Director Jim Williams, or twisting tales like Parks [...]

CAPC Tax Collections Up

According to CAPC Director of Operations Sheila Hulsey, revenue brought in through the CAPC tax on lodgings and restaurants brought in more tax dollars than were collected in 2006.
Collections totaled $104K plus, representing a 2.3% increase over September 2006, Hulsey said.
August collections stayed about steady with those of 2006, Hulsey had previously reported.
August was the [...]

Rainbow Flag

There wasn’t a “No” in the group over whether or not the rainbow flag should fly over the Aud on Diversity Weekend this Fall. It was “Yes” all the way.
The problem was the Aud agreement. It said there would be no banners or pennants. True, it didn’t say “flag,” but the intent was pretty clear– [...]

CAPC Drops Oppportunity to Fund Big Tourism Draw

The Fat Tire Festival has been one of the very few successful festivals in town. They do not lose anyone’s money, they do not ask for any buildings, they have no salaries to be paid by the CAPC (or the City), they don’t burden the cop shop, they don’t drain anything away.
But the Festival and [...]