I found it interesting to learn recently that one of the Flood Recovery Programs that the City Hall is lauding was a Farm in Timecheck?
City Hall supports urban farm for Time Check Neighborhood
CEDAR RAPIDS — A proposal to permit an urban farm in a piece of the flood-hit Time Check Neighborhood won a ringing endorsement on Monday from a City Council committee and the city’s community development director.
The council’s Community Development Committee unanimously agreed to move the idea, called the Ellis Urban Village, forward.
For generations Timecheck has supplied single unit affordable housing for lower income families.'
Such housing is always in short supply, but I was unaware that Iowa was experiencing a shortage of Farms and Vegetables.
This seems to be part of the Urban Village Plan that was part of the Preferred Plan that City Hall tried and failed get passed in Last Springs LOST Referendum.
Along with a myriad of OTHER, "Needs" that City Hall has been working on,
Cedar Rapids council to OK contract for new dog park
The City Council is expected to award a construction contract Tuesday evening to build a new off-leash dog park on city property near the city’s Gardner Golf Course and community gardens at highways 100 and 13.
The park has been in the works for more than two years.
Two contractors bid on the project, with Gee Grading & Excavating Inc. of Cedar Rapids submitting the low bid of $150,635. Dave Schmitt Construction Co. Inc. of Cedar Rapids bid $178,385.
Work is slated to start on Aug. 22 and be complete in November, the city reports.
So THAT'S what they have been working on since the Flood?
Recently I got an email from a good friend who is a Flood Victim. He knows I take an interest in these issues and had a question,
Subject: Is this true?
At the July 26, 2011 Cedar Rapids City Council Meeting the city will be approving the following:
$6.4 Million to Remodel the New City Hall (Many City halls cost less than this to build !!!!)
$41 Million to Renovate the Cedar Rapids Convention Center
(Which does not include the following:
$13 Million New Parking Ramp
$18 Million to Buy and Remodel the Crown Plaza Hotel.
6.4 + 41 + 13 + 18 = $78.4 Million
WT* - This is why we don't have FLOOD PROTECTION !!!
Who is to blamed for this: The Mayor and ALL City Councilors !!!!!
As you can see, he had not only a Question
Is this true?
But a reaction
WT* - This is why we don't have FLOOD PROTECTION !!!
Quite right friends, Sometime back I heard that during a heavy storm, some neighborhood streets were flooded because the sandbags blocking the Storm Drains have
NEVER BEEN REMOVED!
It would appear two things are in action,
One they want us to be reminded of Flooding
Two they are rapidly spending all of our money on pipe dreams so that next spring we will HAVE to give them an extension on the Local Option Sales Tax,
Petition drive starts to force new local-option tax vote
CEDAR RAPIDS — The petition drive has begun to again put an extension of the local-option sales tax to a vote, this time for a scaled-down plan extending the tax just 10 years and putting all the funds toward flood recovery.
Supporters have dubbed the drive CREST — Cedar Rapids Extended Sales Tax — with a goal of collecting at least 4,032 signatures to require the Linn County Board of Supervisors to call a new election, likely on March 6
BOHICA (Bend Over Here It Comes Again)
Updated: Friday, 29 July 2011 8:22 AM CDT
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