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Coeur d’Alene’s urban renewal agency, the Lake City Development Corporation (LCDC), will convene a special call meeting today (Tuesday, February 26) at 4 p.m. at the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce, 105 N. 1st Street, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in the Coeur d’Alene Mines Conference Room.
The agenda posted at City Hall is shown left.
Why the urgency for a Special Call board meeting? And why not at the Library Community Room where it could be televised?
Mary Souza’s Newsletter 
Well, the CdA City Council showed their true colors once again Tuesday night. They approved the purchase of Person and Bryan Fields, but not before taking about 20 minutes to bash the School Board and Superintendent who were all sitting in the audience. It was incredibly unprofessional. Dan Gookin did not participate in the attack and Steve Adams was not present, but the rest of them went at it. And this was all to do with a land purchase deal that they verbally agreed to last month. The details did not change, but now we witnessed the obvious political posturing of the Mayor and most of the Council. I’ll delve into their possible motives at the end of this newsletter, but right now we have far more important things to discuss. (more…)
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I just received an email from Chief Deputy Secretary of State Tim Hurst pointing out that I made a huge error in my OpenCdA post titled Team Yurst’s Bad Idea.
He correctly pointed out that House Bill 0063 was not authored or presented by Team Yurst. The bill was sponsored by Representative Holli Woodings and Senator Elliot Werk. As Hurst pointed out in his email, the Secretary’s office does not even support this legislation.
I apologize to both Ysursa and Hurst (Team Yurst) for my error in attributing this very bad proposed legislation to them.
There has been renewed interest in the 113th Congress for federal gun control legislation. To help members of Congress better understand the legal issues associated with current legislative proposals, the Congressional Research Service released a 17-page report titled Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Legal Issues. The report was issued February 14, 2013, and covers several topics including the Gun Control Act of 1968, the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, legal challenges to the 1994 assault weapons ban, and the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
Describing the diligent, business-like approach taken by the School District 271 Board of Trustees in selling some unneeded land to the City, Couer d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem (shown left) was quoted in this morning’s Coeur d’Alene Press article as saying, “I’m saddened it came to this. In all good faith, we gave [a portion of Person Field] to the district.”
According to the Press article, “…the city gave the school district its half of Person Field in a ‘good faith’ deal roughly 20 years ago so the school district could receive land near Lake City High School while keeping enough property near Lakes Middle School to keep accreditation. Now, the city said, it will be more diligent in future deals, instead of counting on ‘good faith’ ones to pay dividends in the future.” (more…)
In March 2012 the Idaho Legislature’s Joint Legislative Oversight Committee approved a request from the Senate Education Committee to study a variety of issues affecting teachers employed in Idaho’s K–12 public schools. The study request covered a range of topics from teacher recruitment and retention to new teacher preparation and class size.
The 87-page report, released January 3, 2013, and titled Workforce Issues Affecting Public School Teachers, was prepared and submitted by the Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations.
The report’s scope was limited to ten specific areas that legislators had questions about. The stakeholder respondents were limited to school superintendents, principals, and teachers. Thus, its perspective is weighted toward those on the service delivery side of education. (more…)
Mary Souza’s Newsletter 
I’ve been out of the fray for a while but have been watching and listening as many important issues are coming to the fore in our community. You might be interested in some updated info, so here’s the first of my priority topics, because you will need to know this one for Tuesday night. Then, later this week, I’ll tell you about more of them. (more…)
The Sunday Idaho Statesman online had an article headlined Disaster preparation is a growing market for some Idaho enterprises.
The article tried, but not very hard, to distinguish between prudent emergency preparedness, survivalist mindset, and prepper mindset.
Is there a difference, and if so, what? If not, why not?
Apparently this type of business enterprise has been welcomed in southern Idaho. Would it be a good fit up here?
This morning’s skewspaper, the Coeur d’Alene Press, reported breathlessly that more dead deer had been found in Dalton Gardens. Never missing an opportunity to scarf up federal grant money, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger was reported to have fired off a grant request for disguises to enable his deputies to go undercover as whitetail deer. Here is the photo Crimefighter Ben supposedly submitted with the grant application showing one of his Lieutenants in disguise.
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