This is a fun photo I took last week of a huge sculpture in the National Sculpture Garden in Wash DC. If you know what it is, you might be old!
It’s going to be a busy week. Here are some of the important events coming up:
Tonight you have two choices:
1. CdA School Superintendent Harry Amend will be speaking and taking questions about the upcoming school Levy. The event is at the Mica Flats Grange at 7:00 pm tonight. The Grange is south of Coeur d’Alene on Hwy 95 at the Kidd Island Bay turn off.
2. The County Commissioner candidates will answer questions posed by moderator Mike Patrick, editor of the CdA Press, at the forum sponsored by the Kootenai County Young Professionals. It’s at 5:30 pm in the Community room at the new CdA Library next to City Hall.
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 13th, you have several choices:
1. The Educational Corridor Forum at the CdA Inn. This one costs money, $18, but includes dinner and a panel discussion with area legislators, county officials, a couple business people and me (Mary Souza). You need to RSVP to Betty Henderson at 664-7312. Starts at 6:00 pm.
2. LCDC is asking for input on developing Mid Town. 5:30pm at the School District Mid Town Center.
3. CdA P&Z Commission is having a 12:00 noon workshop on Downtown Height regulations with Mark Henshaw, the consultant from Seattle. (I wonder why? The new regulations have been in effect for over a year now–does someone want a change?) And they’ll also have their regular meeting time, 5:30pm. Both will take place at the Community Room in the new Library.
So, take your pick and get please get involved.
Any comments, questions or ideas?
For those trying to keep up with Coeur d’Alene’s soap opera “As Your Sidewalk Crumbles”, the General Services Committee agenda for today’s meeting lists “Item 3: Sidewalk Policy – Revision (Presentation)”. The presentation will be by Jon Ingalls. Don’t bother scrolling through the packet – there’s no information there about his presentation. The meeting is at 1 p.m. at the Library Community Room.
However, if you’re really interested, the Public Works Commitee meeting at 4 p.m. will have what is probably a rerun of Ingalls presentation to the General Services Committee. And voila! Here is the report Ingalls will be presenting to PWC (and also probably to GSC). The report begins on page 38 (using the .pdf paginator).
Heads up! The City’s “solution” will involve taking foregone taxes.
Comment by Bill — May 12, 2008 @ 9:16 am
The picture is a giant typewriter eraser. It must have worked, because you don’t see too many giant typewriters any longer.
Comment by Bill — May 12, 2008 @ 9:33 am
Very funny.
Comment by mary — May 12, 2008 @ 9:40 am
The last item on the “Ingalls Report” directs staff to inform LCDC that this sidewak initative is a priority and requests that they help with grants. Recall that in a recent LCDC meeting, Commissioner Patzer said LCDC might consider helping if it became a city priority. The skids are greased, open the chute!
Comment by Gary Ingram — May 12, 2008 @ 9:54 am
So they don’t need foregone taxes to pay for 5 new librarians, but they need foregone to provide this basic city service?
Comment by Dan — May 12, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Amazing. It wasn’t a priority for the City when it looked like the City administration could once again bully the money out of the public. But when a huge majority of the public started to resist the City’s shakedown, suddenly it became a priority. I guess if the City can’t get us to “cooperate” one way, it will resort to foregone taxes. Either way, we pay for incompetence from incompetents.
Comment by Bill — May 12, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Ahem!! Not to change the subject,BUT my youngest daughter Katie, EMails me to inform me that she is OK. She is in Chongqing, China on a trade mission for the Dept. of Commerce. The building she was in and most of the others in the area were shaking and falling in the severe earthquake that is in the news this morning.
Comment by Gary Ingram — May 12, 2008 @ 11:56 am
Glad to hear it, Gary! We have a neighbor and friend who’s in Beijing and we’re wondering about her also.
Comment by mary — May 12, 2008 @ 3:05 pm