Guest Editorial - Caught Blue Handed
Speaking of the "flip-flopper"...
Quoting from today's JG political notebook "Caught blue-handed:
New Haven City Councilman Roger Clayton admits that he was caught red-handed. Or maybe that’s blue-handed.
Not long after the city council decided not to allow golf carts on city streets, a New Haven officer stopped Clayton for driving his golf carton a city street.
He was not given a ticket but told to take the cart home. Clayton, a Democrat, was about two blocks away from his house and was collecting blue petition signatures to fight the Jury Pool project at the time. He even had a blue “vote no” sign on top of the cart, he said.
Clayton has no regrets about supporting the blue petition takers, although he has been slapped on the hand for that, too.
During Tuesday’s council meeting Clayton defended his efforts after residents complained that he and other council members shouldn’t be actively taking petitions for either side."
Really? This is what is becoming news for the Fort Wayne paper. We are electing "leaders" that are making New Haven the laughingstock of the area.
On a separate topic... I think it is important to remember who is being the true stewards of tax dollars here. One of the best studies I've seen in all the research that was produced by the aquatic advisory committee's efforts was already presented at a council meeting but also ignored or forgotten. It was done by Aquatic Design Group- a firm that builds pools and it classified facilities from all over the country into groups based on the % of recreation space vs. competition space.Overwhelmingly, the pools with more recreation space recovered more of their operating costs and had the best chance of having a net operating income. Right now, and if it were to be build exactly the same way, Jury would be classified as a competition facility with 33% or less of its area used for recreation. Pools in this class on average only recovered 24% of their operating costs. On the other hand, recreation facilities recovered 123%- Yes, made money. Blue likes to criticize the reasoning behind the scale of this project, but yellow is not making up these numbers- they come from real research. Which type of facility would you rather have your tax dollars go towards?
Kara Laughlin
Quoting from today's JG political notebook "Caught blue-handed:
New Haven City Councilman Roger Clayton admits that he was caught red-handed. Or maybe that’s blue-handed.
Not long after the city council decided not to allow golf carts on city streets, a New Haven officer stopped Clayton for driving his golf carton a city street.
He was not given a ticket but told to take the cart home. Clayton, a Democrat, was about two blocks away from his house and was collecting blue petition signatures to fight the Jury Pool project at the time. He even had a blue “vote no” sign on top of the cart, he said.
Clayton has no regrets about supporting the blue petition takers, although he has been slapped on the hand for that, too.
During Tuesday’s council meeting Clayton defended his efforts after residents complained that he and other council members shouldn’t be actively taking petitions for either side."
Really? This is what is becoming news for the Fort Wayne paper. We are electing "leaders" that are making New Haven the laughingstock of the area.
On a separate topic... I think it is important to remember who is being the true stewards of tax dollars here. One of the best studies I've seen in all the research that was produced by the aquatic advisory committee's efforts was already presented at a council meeting but also ignored or forgotten. It was done by Aquatic Design Group- a firm that builds pools and it classified facilities from all over the country into groups based on the % of recreation space vs. competition space.Overwhelmingly, the pools with more recreation space recovered more of their operating costs and had the best chance of having a net operating income. Right now, and if it were to be build exactly the same way, Jury would be classified as a competition facility with 33% or less of its area used for recreation. Pools in this class on average only recovered 24% of their operating costs. On the other hand, recreation facilities recovered 123%- Yes, made money. Blue likes to criticize the reasoning behind the scale of this project, but yellow is not making up these numbers- they come from real research. Which type of facility would you rather have your tax dollars go towards?
Kara Laughlin
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