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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

That long ago?


Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune is dismayed at what he calls a waste of space at the Downtown Hamilton County Administration Building.

He notes the first floor is nothing but a lobby and needs to be used more efficiently.

At Wednesday's meeting, Portune suggested perhaps a coffee kiosk could be added so county employees could gather to share ideas and stories.

Another idea is to use the lobby walls to display art created by Hamilton County citizens.

Portune started thinking about the ideas a few weeks ago while walking through the lobby and seeing a poster of Republican Bob Taft, (pictured) the Ohio Secretary of State.

Taft was Secretary of State from 1991 through 1998. Before that, he was a Hamilton County Commissioner and after that Ohio Governor.

"It was rather symbolic of how up-to-date Hamilton County is," Portune said of the Taft poster.


7 Comments:

at 5:10 PM, January 17, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Odd Todd wants to criticize the inefficient use of space, he should at least come up with some useful ideas himself. Coffee kiosk? Art hanging? You call that an efficient use of government space?

As usual, Opportune is quick to criticize, but never seems to have any good ideas of his own.

 
at 8:39 PM, January 17, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...If Odd Todd wants to criticize the inefficient use of space, he should at least come up with some useful ideas himself. Coffee kiosk? Art hanging? You call that an efficient use of government space? As usual, Opportune is quick to criticize, but never seems to have any good ideas of his own...."

Typical wRong wingnut whacko spewing the elephant dung propaganda !

Hey clueless, Portune is the highest vote getter of any of the current or former commissioners !

The voter can see your the "blower" of schmidt out your "finney fanny" trunk !

PATHETIC !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 12:53 AM, January 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Portune is on to something here -- the other day I noticed that right in the middle of the court house there is a court yard - prime real estate - used for a parking lot for a very few number of cars.

Personally, I imagined a tower resurrected in the center of that waste of a parking lot - to house criminals - right there at the court house.

But generally, I think there is alot of wasted space. Half the court rooms are empty, half the time. Usually the court rooms have fewer than ten people in them for trials.

I think they need to make all-purpose court rooms for the highly attended hearings and the "private " courtrooms should be reduced in size and the rest of the wasted space made into jail cells or consolidate some county offices and sell off the extra real estate.

We need an efficiency of use study done pretty cheaply.

 
at 7:09 AM, January 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

When we sit around and share "idea" around coffee, it's called slacking. But Todd want to promote employees doing nothing and call it efficency.

Todd, spend time fixing the county's problems and less on the color of the drapes in the lobby. Efficent use of tax payer money? Welcome to government, Democrap style.

 
at 10:14 PM, January 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...When we sit around and share "idea" around coffee, it's called slacking. But Todd want to promote employees doing nothing and call it efficency. Todd, spend time fixing the county's problems and less on the color of the drapes in the lobby. Efficent use of tax payer money? Welcome to government, Democrap style..."

Typical wRong wingnut whacko spewing the elephant dung propaganda !

Hey clueless, stop being the "blower" of unlawfull smoke up "finney's fanny" !

PATHETIC !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
at 6:51 AM, January 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Typical wRong wingnut whacko spewing the elephant dung propaganda !

Hey clueless, stop being the "blower" of unlawfull smoke up "finney's fanny" !


Intelligent discussion of the issue there Mr. One-trick-pony. It a waste of taxpayer money and you know it. Your hate of anything Republician clouds even your reasoning. This seems to be a trait of most kool-aid drinking Democraps these days.

 
at 9:07 PM, January 20, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...Intelligent discussion of the issue there Mr. One-trick-pony. It a waste of taxpayer money and you know it. Your hate of anything Republician clouds even your reasoning. This seems to be a trait of most kool-aid drinking Democraps these days...."

Does Republician = republican ?

Here we go, another jim jones, wRong wingnut whacko grade school drop-out spewing the elephant dung propaganda, with no plan of their own.

Hey clueless. just blame everyone else when you have no plan of your own !

Thanks for being a follower ! !

Pay attention and maybe you can pull yourself from the grip of the minority, wRong wingnut, folley fondling, "g
roping old pedophiles" !

Change is in the air !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !

 
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