tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post5840473893865787790..comments2023-11-23T11:53:11.163-07:00Comments on Caldwell Guardian: Hwy 20/26 Widening Done at Property Taxpayer ExpensePaul Alldredgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10502379547952380365noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-89360959647304308802011-04-16T20:24:48.530-06:002011-04-16T20:24:48.530-06:00Mayor Nancolas is certainly a booster for the City...Mayor Nancolas is certainly a booster for the City, no question about it. The problem is he has lost his way as Mayor. His first term was great. His second term he discovered he could pretty much put the city in auto-pilot and travel all over the place at taxpayer expense. His third term is marked by desperation to show some progress .... any progress, to do something downtown. Grades for his performance review would be A- for the first term, D+ for the second term, and F for this term.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-85125295248283293262011-04-15T11:42:23.499-06:002011-04-15T11:42:23.499-06:00I can't respond to the absolute certainty of a...I can't respond to the absolute certainty of a jail bond in the near term, however, I got invited in to see the plan put together by the good people at 1115 Albany Street at the behest of Comm. Steve Rule. It is their effort to locate the jail next to the existing courthouse and the cost is estimated to be $24MM. Mr. Rule expects $14MM from a bond election and $10MM from the good folks at Caldwell East Urban Renewal Agency.<br /><br />My critique of this plan is the jail would not be connected to the courthouse and would require at least two more people and as many as six people to shuttle inmates to and from the new jail site.<br /><br />Why not take the time and plan for connecting the jail to the courthouse and save the expense of a jail van(s) to shuttle inmates to and from the Jail? <br /><br />Meanwhile, estimates from the former County Maintenance Supt. put the costs of hardening the tent at $33k and Comm. Rule's number is $330k. Somebody if off by a factor of 10.<br /><br />PaulPaul Alldredgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502379547952380365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-9708840315837787272011-04-15T00:00:50.517-06:002011-04-15T00:00:50.517-06:00Is it true the commishioners are going to try for ...Is it true the commishioners are going to try for a new jail again this year Paul? Could it be this construction is the result of yet another cockamame plan hatched by the 3 amigos and supported by Nampas Tommy Boy and Caldwells Team Garrett? Have they aquired any new property lately on 20/26?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-76868203296883232242011-04-14T10:51:15.311-06:002011-04-14T10:51:15.311-06:00Mister Merryweather, (Little Big Man,) must be bac...Mister Merryweather, (Little Big Man,) must be back in Caldwell hot breathing the Mayor and selling wolf tickets!<br />Will the waste of taxpayer money never end?GROWLERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-73652079449240046412011-04-14T05:28:05.706-06:002011-04-14T05:28:05.706-06:00Ok, let me get this straight...When Fred Meyer'...Ok, let me get this straight...When Fred Meyer's wanted to come to town the story from City of Caldwell was that 20/26 was a state run road and the state would not grant ingress or egress to the property according to City Hall, so the deal died. But now there's no problem with the city dropping 1.6 - 3 million on a road they don't even "own"?<br /><br />By the way, I love the price swing. I wish I could run my business with that gimmick. "It might be this, but it could be double. We'll just do it and send you the bill later."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-46035012356947592462011-04-14T00:30:22.615-06:002011-04-14T00:30:22.615-06:00Burn barrels were the norm in the 1950's and 1...Burn barrels were the norm in the 1950's and 1960's. You would have one in the back yard smoldering, put your garbage and grass clippings in and let it burn! Are we really any better off today? Now instead of a stinking burn barrel we have stinking garbage trucks, racing around early in the morning, burning $4.25 per gallon diesel! This folks, is environmentally unsound! It is close to a 20 mile trip from Caldwell to the dump. We have to put up with stinking garbage trucks driven by overpaid surly workers, to waste precious diesel fuel! Bring back the burn barrel to save the planet! Make it legal to to let your grass and weeds to grow over 8" tall, fire Sylvia, make garbage pickup optional, not mandatory. Let those that wish to continue the planet's destruction have their garbage picked up and over mow the grass and weeds. Give me burn barrels and long weeds. Repeal the silly laws and end the expensive garbage contacts. Live free or die! City of Caldwell, get off my back!GROWLERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-83037858207440645012011-04-13T11:23:50.627-06:002011-04-13T11:23:50.627-06:00Who's crazier the politions or the people that...Who's crazier the politions or the people that keep putting them back in officeBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4157230973290376625.post-57864017574815340102011-04-13T07:45:00.380-06:002011-04-13T07:45:00.380-06:00I know burn barrels are illegal in Caldwell, so th...I know burn barrels are illegal in Caldwell, so that must be the reason we need this project to dispose of "excess taxpayer money in the highest taxed locality an SW Idaho during the worst recession since WW2". If analysts from State Hospital South were present our problems would be over, as right about now the Mayor and Council would be being ushered off their "Padded bus" in Blackfoot.Bullroarnoreply@blogger.com