private property improvements paid with your money
tommySt. Pete Times reporter Michael Van Sickler uncovered one way to get government to pay for your pet project:
“We have not been able to find a technical reason to support a public purpose in using public funds to stabilize the shoreline along Ms. Walters’ property,” wrote public works director Bob Gordon in an e-mail last year.
A few months later, however, county commissioners took the last in a series of votes to spend $220,000 in public money on the wall.
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July 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Not to get off subject of the flag rights but….here’s some insight into this Donnie White character….he has mental issues and I’m not referring to this the flag incident. He hangs out around MLK and Armenia Ave in West Tampa during the day. There’s a strip shopping center at that intersection with a Subway sandwich shop in it. I go there a couple of times a week. He’s there all the time. Sits on the sidewalk bumming money from people. If you don’t give it to him, he gets aggressive and will sometimes chase you. He came into the Subway resturaunt while I was eating lunch one day and took a cup out of the trash, went and filled it up at the soda machine. As he’s walking out,a woman said “oh my god that’s gross!!!” to him. He started cussing at her, I thought he was gonna punch her. Week before last he had his bike leaning against the wall of Subway bumming money off folks. I saw the flag tied to the back of the bike all bunched up and filthy. I asked my friend could it be his way of celebratiing the 4th of July? While it may sound nuts to think that, it makes sense with this guy cause you gotta understand…this guy IS NUTS. He doesn’t need jail but he DOES NEED MENTAL HEALTH HELP. Just wanted to explain the individual we are dealing with here.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Oops!! I hate when I do that!! this comment was for the flag blog…
July 17th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Hide your wallets when these “fiscal conservatives” show up.
Roy Davis claims to be a fiscal conservative, but pressures the county into spending $200,000 on one woman’s backyard seawall. Brian Blair claims to be a fiscal conservative, but pressures the county into spending a million on his backyard lake. Meanwhile we’re told our county can’t afford to spend $800,000 to maintain our EPC wetlands division which protects and restores the natural resources belonging to all of us.