Lawrence Wilson
I am going to digress just a bit from the Council Meeting of the 23rd on the Police Fee. After the Meeting, I was asked when the discount started? I made an error in saying 2016 because I believed it was being pushed as part of Mr. Rapp's Election Campaign financed via the City Funds/ Programs?
The only reduction in fees was the removal of the Suddenlink/ CAS Franchise Fee effective
1 January 2016 but were a month or two late in ending. This was about $1.00/ Month per household or $60,000./ year?
But Mr. Bibbee had in the meeting noted that he and Ms. Roberts had supposedly dealt with the Tax Department (?), but could not make the numbers work? I have went through all the minutes I have from 2011 forward and cannot find anything on their efforts? I don't believe it?
It was as has been noted a City Ordinance since 1974. But for whatever reason, it had not been advertised to those reaching 65 or older for many years? So how many were actually using it? Where it became more noticed was in the Vienna Newsletter that came out on about October 1st, 2014. When I read that, I brought up at the 9 October 2014 City Council Meeting. I have attended so many of the City Meetings over the past 7- 8 years, that I have a reasonable idea of what is going on here.
In any case, Mr. Skogstad was kind enough to read me the Ordinance as I was a bit off on what was going on with the notice in the Newsletter? I noted that I had not heard the required two readings before it went into effect and asked when they had occurred?
Now, I had not availed myself of that discount until some months (late 2015/ early 2016), after a Department Head, now retired had tried to intimidate me for pointing out the excessive pay raises for the City that took effect on 1 July 2015? My darling wife said no, he had threatened me. It turned out the comment was correct and my response from the PD after that was a simple call took 15- 18 minutes for one of the nine (9) officers piled up on 29th St. on a given day, to get to my neighbors home which was the reason I called. Just my name on the call ended with a long delay in which thankfully nothing happened to those elderly folks. That was when the discount began for me. I have realized from than on, I have no Police Protection.
So my 2016 date was incorrect as far as when the Ordinance started, but the re-start it seemed was in October 2014 that currently has about 1,050- 1,100 Seniors now getting the discount out of about 1,450 in the City?
Now, I am going to admit that I ran a bit of a test on some of the folks here who along with "You know who" and some of her BFFs got their panties in a bunch when I made one of four suggestions on Deer Control using Antifreeze. Some of them to include Ms. Powell went nuts on me for my terrible idea causing so much pain and misery to Bambi and all. I was attacked because I preferred plants over animals, etc.
Yet, yesterday when I noted the potential danger to that little girl in the Police Cruiser or in fact any child in one with the keys in the ignition and the ability it seemed to start, put into gear and be off and running, what happened?
Not a sound out of these Mothers/ Grandmother types. So may I ask of them is it that Deer are more important to be protected than children? Just asking group, just asking?
Let's call a spade a spade, it was NOT the idea, it was that it was MY idea that stirred the bevy of City Beauties in Ms. Powell's BFF's group to get all bunched up.
Only thing that has popped up now is a somewhat lucid rant by her on the folks here not caring and just throwing their hands up in the air and "we can't do anything about it"? This was about the contaminated drinking water which I guess refers to the C8? How we are I guess absorbing it into our DNA and will be there for who knows how long? The whole thing was what some would call another sensationalizing of what is happening to us?
It will go away after some years IF and I repeat IF we quit being contaminated. TRUTH: In Vienna we are getting contaminated from what is coming down in the air, not the water. The water is for both the C8 and GenX being filtered out per the official party line. Everyone is getting it from the Air as it is said to be saturated in the atmosphere from what DuPont put out in the air and other places still manufacturing it- China and India are two of the Countries.
Our issues are air/ land contamination which would include rain, mist, dew, fog and so on but not the well water at this point. If EPA drops the standards again, than all bets are again off.
There is also some additional concerns from the group on the PCE Plume rushing to wells 7 & 8 as it goes down on the Park Site. One can almost NOT keep up with the daily "Cause du Jour" with that group?
So tomorrow, I will go back on the Police Fee and Mr. Rapp's plan for us. 'nuff said'.