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Monday, December 17, 2007

Red-Light Cameras and More

There was a lot of talk at Cincinnati City Council's finance committee meeting Monday about red-light cameras, which Chairman John Cranley budgeted in as generating $1 million. But here are some more things in the budget package, which council is expected to vote on Wednesday.

Savings:


1. $580, by taking out the water cooler in council chambers and ending the practice of providing bottled water to councilmembers. Cranley says it'd be better to drink Greater Cincinnati Water Works water anyway.


2. $60,000, by canceling the survey that asked citizens how they felt about city services.


3. $14,740, by eliminating 2% raises for council members and Mayor Mark Mallory.


4. $130,000, by cutting the recreation department's plan to replace computers.


Additions:


1. $65,000, for drawings and construction of the Mount Lookout streetscape.


2. $250,000, for a consultant on planning and design for the I-75 corridor.


3. $500,000 for "street calming," aka speed humps.


4. $250,000 for the Center for Closing the Health Gap, run by former Mayor Dwight Tillery.


19 Comments:

at 4:12 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love political math...

Savings = $205,320

Political Paybacks = $1,065,000

Total savings = Whoops there are none!

Tired of this kind of crap? Vote anyone but these clowns!

 
at 4:23 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon is right. Yet we returned all the retreads . . . each and every one of them.

Especially shameless is the $250,000 for the Center for Closing the Health Gap, run by Tillery. He gets black votes for Dems who line his pockets.

 
at 4:54 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many street humps?? I believe they cost about 12,000 or so per hump (at least out here in the burbs).

 
at 5:10 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

what is it about cincinnati that they think putting bumps in the road is an effective way to control traffic. its bad enough that we still have wpa islands of concrete all over the place.

prove to me that speed humps isn't another workfare program.

 
at 5:33 PM, December 18, 2007 Blogger usefullidiot said...

Red light cameras are a joke. The public is wise to this thinly-vailed goverment money-grab. Go ahead and make yourself un-electible. Please.

 
at 7:41 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Just wait until they build that goofy $20 million trolley to nowhere downtown with taxpayer dollars.

Talk about payback to rich developers, jeez-ole-peet.

 
at 8:08 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

5. $5,000 for the installation of security cameras to prevent the foot-tapping bold typist from hanging out all day in the mens restrooms.

 
at 4:48 AM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

.

We thought they already had cameras in the red-light district ?

Big brother is watching !

We must, we must, we must conform !

This will be another reason not to go to the city and give them any of your money.

There goes the business district !

First it was the cost to park, now it is the cost of freedom !

Take your cameras and stick-um up your ****ing **s !

PATHETIC: Dems acting like wRong wingnut whackos !

HAD ENOUGH, VOTE green !

 
at 8:37 AM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is ignorant about Cincinnati Council Members budget cuts is they cut and then add more to their budget which is unnecessary (red light cameras, speed bumps, ... the Health Gap run by former Mayor Dwight Tillery (fundraise for this social service nonsense). I am sick of funding all these social services - get a job!

 
at 9:12 AM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

According to CincyMag (formerly Cincinnati Business magazine), Tillery's salary is about half of the amount council just voted to give him.

 
at 10:35 AM, December 19, 2007 Blogger usefullidiot said...

Wasn't it D. White Tillery who threw a second generation restrauntor out of a city-owned building, only for it to sit empty for seven years before city hall gave LARRY FLINT a sweethart deal??

PATHETIC PROGRESSIVE WALK-ON-THE-WILD-SIDE VALUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
at 1:45 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Get over the cameras
and let us march forward
to resolve real crime!

 
at 4:14 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Red light cameras are a safety issue, not a money issue" says John Cranley.

What they are is a tax increase and, as studies show, only make intersections more dangerous.

If not a budget issue, John, then why only at budget time?

 
at 6:09 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

speed humps slow traffic, not control it.

What, precisely, does the Center for Closing the Health Gap do (besides employ Tillery)?

 
at 9:38 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing to the question about Tillery and the gap. He is a buddy of the Mayor who needed a job. Both are a waste!

Thank you to GHIZ, BORTZ, BERDING, MONZEL for your common sense voting of the biannual budget. Now, figure out a way to get the wasteful spending of the red light cameras overturned. Let the voters decide if we want such wasteful spending. It probably be even worse than the jail issue failing. Thumbs down on this suggestion of cameras! I believe in reducing crime and much more, but this is a waste of taxpayer's dollars.

VOTE FOR GHIZ for COMMISSIONER! This would be simply marvelous. What do you think, City Council Member Ghiz?

 
at 10:16 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon 6:09,

http://www.closingthehealthgapcincy.com/

 
at 2:00 AM, December 20, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

How much did we taxpayers pay for the "Welcome to West Price Hill" sign at Covedale & Rapid Run ?
Neighborhood known as "Covedale" since my birth - why the expensive fluff ?

 
at 9:21 AM, December 20, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

all those Kentucky drivers get a permanent green light - no front license plates to read.

what a waste of money.

 
at 2:41 PM, December 20, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is the Police Department going to do with those who only use a rear license plate? I guess they get a free ride.

This is really fair and balanced. Isn't it? Hey, they do not pull over people in Ohio with one license plate on their car. It is a State Law which is not enforced. I guess to make it fair the law-abiding citizen should be allowed to remove his/her front plate.

Advise on this one ... you crazy Council Members who voted for this issue. What a waste!

Put the money in real law enforcement like more police patrol in cars and walking in neighborhoods such as Westwood.

 
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