1. Kissimmee curbside recycling:On the commission agenda tonight is a proposal by city staff to obtain a grant to start a pilot project for curbside recycling within the city. We think it's a great idea, as we wrote in an entry back on June 12th. Maybe we could reduce enough waste that way that the $1/month waste collection increase that the commission is considering tonight wouldn't be necessary. (Side request to the commission: maybe you could do all of the new fees/fee increases at once, rather than rolling out one a month.)
2. All-America City, Round II:
The Kissimmee commission is also going to talk about their plans to enter the All-America City competition again in 2008 at tonight's meeting. Let's hope they think about the following: 1) There's plenty of lead time to solicit donations/sponsorships for this effort, so that it isn't entirely funded by various government agencies. 2) A mixture of new/different community programs would need to be added to any new entry...we don't think there is any way to win with the same group of programs that have already been entered once. 3) Hopefully the inevitable "advisory committee" will include some fresh faces.
3. St. Cloud and The Preserve:
Well, whoever (School District, Education Foundation, or private developer) had The Preserve zoning on the St. Cloud agenda for this week asked that it be delayed. Guess the odds among the 4 remaining sitting commissioners wasn't good. Does this mean that they felt that Mike Wetzel was going to be the decisive "yes" vote in a 3-2 split? If that's the case, the special election could truly come down to a single-issue campaign. Stay tuned.
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I find it hard to beleive that they are going to try for All America City again. What a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. Since we are going to have a special election anyway (for the election reform issues the public was not allowed to talk about), why don't we put this on the ballot? Let's see if the residents of the community want to spend the money on this award again.
As far as creating new programs to try to win, how are we going to create more programs when we are looking to cut the funding to the programs that we have in place already. A freeze on hiring police and firefighters and this is the grand plan?
The level of stupidity has risen to a new level.
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