Meet the candidates night, Tuesday, January 24, starting at 5:00 PM at City Hall. Also see the attached agenda for the BOA meeting to start at 7.
Ladies and gentlemen please mark your calendar for January 24, 2012 to attend the "Meet the candidates night starting at 5:00 PM in the BOA chambers, Crestwood City Hall. The filing has closed and we have an especially qualified group of candidates who wish to serve the community to choose from. Please join Ms. Jackie Stock and me for a chance to meet them and find out their vision for Crestwood.
After the candadates meeting won't you please stay for the Board of Alderman meeting starting at 7:00 PM. This meeting (please click on the header for the agenda) is an important one for all of us to attend, if for no other reason than to watch the new City Administrator in action and gain some insight into her management style.
We all know that Crestwood is facing some tough economic times and it's not going to get any better soon, so what's her vision for cutting expenses to weather the storm? Hard times require hard decisions. Is Ms. Eastman the person that can and will make those hard decisions? Please stay and find out for yourself.
Please remember the words of the Greek philosopher Plato who opined, "just because you don't take an interest in politics dosen't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"
Tom Ford
NO. 980
posted by Crestwood Independent at 01:12
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I thought the start time was 5:45 pm
Start time is and has been 5:00 PM, ending time is 6:45 PM.
Will we see you there I hope? Please do try to attend as Ms. Stock has prep aired some very interesting things for the Crestwood Anniversary this year.
Tom Ford
Tom,
Thanks to you and Jacquie Stock for putting this together!
Do you have a final list of candidates that signed up to run for office?
Thanks!
Final list of candidates filed for Alderman, Crestwood as follows.
Don Tennessen, Ward 4
Paul Duchild, Ward 3 (Inc.)
Steve Nieder, Ward 4
Bob Deutschman, Ward 2
Tim trueblood, ward 2
Mary Statter, Ward 2
Darryl Wallach, Ward 1 (Inc.)
(Inc. = incumbent)
All have been invited to join us or an evening of "meet and greet." Please be advised that this is not a debate night, that will happen in march for those who agree to it.
Tom Ford
Tom,
Just to clear up something about the races in Ward two.
MR. Deutschman is running uncontested for the remaining 1 year term of Alderman Steve Knarr. He is NOT running for the seat of Alderman Chris Pickel which is a 3 year term.
Based on this, I want to be the first to congratulate Bob Deutschman on his victory and to publicly thank him for his many years of service to the entire Crestwood community.
I, as a voting resident of Ward 2 look forward to having Bob as my voice in City Hall!
Ditto to that Tim. Bob Deutchmann has been a "constant" in anything pertaining to Crestwood. He is the first to show his concern for the city and it's residents. I applaud him for all of his hard work and dedication to Crestwood and to St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church.
Tim and Sandy: If ever I saw a person who is the right one for the job, Bob is it!
Bob is a world war two veteran, a hard worker, honest to a fault and with the reputation of an impeccable record of community service that stands in the shadow of no one.
I agree, welcome aboard Bob!
Tom Ford
So...please correct me if I'm wrong...Steve Knarr did NOT sign up to run again, nor did Pickel?...or Beasley?
And it appears that Darryl Wallach and Paul Duchild are unopposed?
" So...please correct me if I'm wrong...Steve Knarr did NOT sign up to run again, nor did Pickel?...or Beasley?
And it appears that Darryl Wallach and Paul Duchild are unopposed? "
So says the last sign up sheet from City Hall. The list is exactly what I received from them.
Tom Ford
Dr. Burt Folsom
www.burtfolsom.com
"The city of Detroit is a case study in how high taxes can help to trigger a city’s decline. Detroit has had many problems, but at the top of the list: taxes the city has imposed on income, property, and utilities. Those taxes are three times higher than the average for the rest of Michigan, according to Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press. Shopkeepers and homeowners have thus chosen to flee the high cost of doing business in Detroit. From 1950 to 1980, Detroit lost 34% of its people; from 1980 to 2010 Detroit lost 40% more. Each wave of fleeing citizens means fewer people are left to support schools, businesses, and urban services. Economist Gary Wolfram, my Hillsdale College colleague, estimates that 40% of Detroit adults are functional illiterates–people abandoned by the public school unions but too poor to leave town.
Not all big cities have followed Detroit’s path. Some started in that direction, and then altered their strategy. For example, New York, Boston, and San Francisco–like Detroit–all lost population from 1950 to 1980. But those three cities became part of a tax revolt that capped or limited tax hikes in their states. Prop 13 in California, for example, capped property taxes at 1%, which, according to scholars Steve Hanke and Stephen Walters, “slashed San Francisco’s [tax] rate by almost two-thirds.” What was the result? Between 1980 and 2010, San Francisco grew 19%, Boston grew 10%, and New York 16%. As Hanke and Walters note, “tax caps not only improve the immediate cash flow on investments in real property but–perhaps more important–secure it against further expropriations.” People stay and invest when they know the rules and are allowed to make some money.
The lesson for the U.S. today is clear. If we overtax and overregulate, we create an unstable climate to invest, which cuts the chances people have to make money. Thus, people with money leave and invest elsewhere. All of this decline plays out over several decades. Therefore the U.S. can increase taxes, debt, and regulations and be like Detroit–and like New York, Boston, and San Francisco from 1950 to 1980–or the U.S. can cut its corporate tax (which is currently the second highest in the industrialized world) and its high income tax and, above all, cut its reckless spending and be more like New York, Boston, and San Francisco after 1980, when they capped taxes and encouraged investment. The choice is ours. Our future will depend on our decisions."
I share this if for no other reason than Dr. Folsom's last sentence.
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