tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post113430737376370379..comments2023-11-03T06:29:15.083-05:00Comments on Quad City Images: Maybe I'm missing somethingQuadCityImageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134949105065142302005-12-18T17:38:00.000-06:002005-12-18T17:38:00.000-06:00How about we just re-hab the Blackhawk for 10 mill...How about we just re-hab the Blackhawk for 10 million and save the taxpayers 9 million?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134769704713124762005-12-16T15:48:00.000-06:002005-12-16T15:48:00.000-06:00`QCIAre you and I the only ones that agree? The pr...`QCI<BR/><BR/>Are you and I the only ones that agree? The present Police Station<BR/>was a car dealership. Why do you think OIL is coming though the floor? Talk about wasting the tax payers money dump $10 mill. down that hole.<BR/><BR/>P.S. I think the DPD should have an open house "talk about awake up call"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134735706638869552005-12-16T06:21:00.000-06:002005-12-16T06:21:00.000-06:00That's the cheap solution that got them their curr...That's the cheap solution that got them their current terrible station.QuadCityImageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134715442287965292005-12-16T00:44:00.000-06:002005-12-16T00:44:00.000-06:00How about spending 10 million to renovate somethin...How about spending 10 million to renovate something that will be around for the same amount of time and returning the other 10 million to the taxpayers.<BR/><BR/>Go ladies go!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134682459872043752005-12-15T15:34:00.000-06:002005-12-15T15:34:00.000-06:00Eventhough I won't be around to see it I would rat...Eventhough I won't be around to see it I would rather spend $19 million to build something that will be around for 100 years than to put up some junk that won't last 20 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134678070303581722005-12-15T14:21:00.000-06:002005-12-15T14:21:00.000-06:00The police are good folks, and deserve a new home....The police are good folks, and deserve a new home. Whether or not we need to spend 19 million on it or not is another thing. My wife wants to move, and so do I. She would like me to spend about a million dollars on our new home. I am thinking more like 150k. We will see what we can afford. We won't go beyond that. The taxpayers have been taxed to death, and now we are being asked to spend another .50 cents per thousand for a completely new home when there is plenty of vacant property all around. What about re-habbing some existing structure?<BR/><BR/>I think 19 million is way too much. I hope there are EPA problems. Thank God for the little old ladies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134675123309241152005-12-15T13:32:00.000-06:002005-12-15T13:32:00.000-06:00Isn't providing for public safety resources a "bas...Isn't providing for public safety resources a "basic"? What exactly is "fatty" about a new police station?Z. Carstensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11171998761327140850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134667750092237552005-12-15T11:29:00.000-06:002005-12-15T11:29:00.000-06:00I also am not an "againster". But, there are plen...I also am not an "againster". But, there are plenty of parks, libraries etc. and we have our art museum, our bridge to nowhere etc. What we are saying is we don't need to go spend money on even more of the same. It is time to cut City fat and get back to basics. Your arguement about restraunts makes no sense at all. That is a function of the private sector. Take care of the basics and builders will want to build, residents will want to occupy and restraunteers will open new places.<BR/><BR/>Do what we need to do, cut the fat, and move on. The rest will take care of itself.<BR/><BR/>I hope the 3 little old ladies win their lawsuit!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134654862100007112005-12-15T07:54:00.000-06:002005-12-15T07:54:00.000-06:00Yes I post under my real name when "I" post.QCI,Do...Yes I post under my real name when "I" post.<BR/><BR/>QCI,<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong, I'm on record for being PRO-economic improvement.<BR/><BR/>And don,t enclued me in your definition of an "Againster"<BR/><BR/>I've lived in the City of Davenport all my life.<BR/><BR/>I'm not independently wealthy,I live on a budget. And only barrow or take out loans when I have to Home/Car ect. I ask only the City do the same thing. Police Station/New Fire Truck ect.<BR/><BR/>These Park "improvements" are green spaces already are they not?<BR/><BR/>I'd like to build a garage, but it's going to have to wait.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134653671232029662005-12-15T07:34:00.000-06:002005-12-15T07:34:00.000-06:00Just call me Pollyanna.I'm actually pretty cynical...Just call me Pollyanna.<BR/><BR/>I'm actually pretty cynical, but I guess I'm fairly optimistic about Davenport at least.QuadCityImageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134651365643838022005-12-15T06:56:00.000-06:002005-12-15T06:56:00.000-06:00I think you're becoming bitter LL.When the against...I think you're becoming bitter LL.<BR/><BR/>When the againsters get me down, I just think of River Renaissance, the library and jail referendums, and Niky getting last place.<BR/><BR/>Those things remind me that the barebones lifeless city crowd are the vocal minority.QuadCityImageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134624271660236852005-12-14T23:24:00.000-06:002005-12-14T23:24:00.000-06:00Since parks are a drain on on our tax coffers, lib...Since parks are a drain on on our tax coffers, libraries are too and do we really need books when we have videos and the Internet?, art is unimportant, having a convention center is unessential, public safety is (but really isn't on our minds), having housing options doesn't matter, Trash collection is okay as long as we don't have to pay for it, and storm water, while a nuisance when it floods our basements because our storm sewers are in pre-history shape lets just stop services, pave over parks, let even more criminals run rampant, sell our art, burn the books, buy houses on enormous lots that contribute to the sprawl that is Davenport, stock up on buckets, and just give up. Of course if we give up we are left with an aging, dying population who are all on fixed incomes, nothing green to relax in, walk your dog at, or stroll through, trash on the street, a local economy driven by low paying but numerous retail employment opportunities including Wal-Mart, Dress Barn, K-Mart, Kohls, well you know the list and restaurants that while numerous, are all the same is there really a difference between the Village Inn, I-Hop, Country Kitchen, Bob Evans or any of the countless pizza places that now mimic Chef's Hat. <BR/><BR/>If the people who want to stop Davenport's slide into insignicance give up and walk away, then perhaps the people who like living in an underachieving city with a a zest for self destruction and self loathing will be happy. Somehow I doubt it.Z. Carstensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11171998761327140850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134616791215916282005-12-14T21:19:00.000-06:002005-12-14T21:19:00.000-06:00Good. You pay for the parks then.Good. You pay for the parks then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134616262431378772005-12-14T21:11:00.000-06:002005-12-14T21:11:00.000-06:00I've never heard of too many parks.I've never heard of too many parks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134607236734991482005-12-14T18:40:00.000-06:002005-12-14T18:40:00.000-06:00The Quad Cities already has too damn many parks. ...The Quad Cities already has too damn many parks. When you are talking about raising taxes by fifty cents per thousand, you don't go build more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134600996004332272005-12-14T16:56:00.000-06:002005-12-14T16:56:00.000-06:00While I obviously disagree, at least that's a well...While I obviously disagree, at least that's a well-written and logical post. Southwest Park seems like a really neat, if possibly over ambitious project. I obviously believe in downtown progress, so I support Centennial Park and even the skatepark, and I've stated before that northeast Davenport desperately needs a park. I would say the parks are more for our kids than adults and aldermanic candidates, and hopefully if more kids got out into local parks and off of their X-Boxes, we'd have a more healthy population.QuadCityImageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134598374114836332005-12-14T16:12:00.000-06:002005-12-14T16:12:00.000-06:00To answer QCI's question;Prairie Heights Park $1,...To answer QCI's question;<BR/><BR/>Prairie Heights Park $1,750,000<BR/>Southwest Park $ 950,000<BR/>Skateboard Park $ 700,000<BR/><BR/>And maybe? Centennial Park $500,000<BR/> = $3,900,000<BR/> <BR/><BR/>Maybe I just have to spend more <BR/>time at the parks,but I'm just too busy working so I can pay my ever increasing property taxes.<BR/><BR/>Police Station- Yes<BR/>More parks- laterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134548792645742302005-12-14T02:26:00.000-06:002005-12-14T02:26:00.000-06:00You may both be right, but the law is the law. Ca...You may both be right, but the law is the law. Can't commit taxpayer funds until we know, if the Judge is wise enough to support the little old ladies. And, even if there is no contamination, the little old ladies may be able to get the new council to approve the budget. That would make them heros in my book!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134537212074607302005-12-13T23:13:00.000-06:002005-12-13T23:13:00.000-06:00If there is contamination. We have a federal brow...If there is contamination. We have a federal brownfield's statute and there is money (through super fund) to clean up contaminated sites. This would assume contamination beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Remediation often is as simple as building on top of the contaminated soil or just scooping it up, moving it, and building on it again. In some cases, its enough to just put grass on top of it.Z. Carstensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11171998761327140850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134536845877584972005-12-13T23:07:00.000-06:002005-12-13T23:07:00.000-06:00Can we talk about contamination? Is the envidence...Can we talk about contamination? Is the envidence for contamination a hearsay account of a man who believes there was coolant and other auto chemicals buried at the site? If that's the case, wouldn't this "contamination" been discovered when the current facilty was constructed? Seems pretty sketchy to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134523859655526932005-12-13T19:30:00.000-06:002005-12-13T19:30:00.000-06:00Let the developers put in their own streets, and t...Let the developers put in their own streets, and the park is way too big.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134523647867116332005-12-13T19:27:00.000-06:002005-12-13T19:27:00.000-06:00"All the Prairie Heights crap" is a street and a p..."All the Prairie Heights crap" is a street and a park. The park is definitely needed because Davenport has no parks on the northeast side of the city. The street is arguably needed to settle legal issues.<BR/><BR/>I hope everyone reads through the list of things being bought, because they're all good things for Davenport.QuadCityImageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134519539340796342005-12-13T18:18:00.000-06:002005-12-13T18:18:00.000-06:00I would remove all of the Prairie Heights crap, an...I would remove all of the Prairie Heights crap, and would remove the police station until the police site gets straightened out. Some investigation is in order. The main thing I would like to see happen is that the new Council gets to decide the budget. It may prove to be a lot less money needs to be borrowed, so the taxpayers may get a large break on the new .50 cents per thousand tax. Lets let a fiscally responsible Council have a crack at it; not the bunch of drunken sailors we have now. And, the best thing is, the Judge may require it to occur, based on the way this might go down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134510822654354182005-12-13T15:53:00.000-06:002005-12-13T15:53:00.000-06:00So what would you remove from the 36 mil?So what would you remove from the 36 mil?QuadCityImageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503485646277987317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12726606.post-1134510289872816652005-12-13T15:44:00.000-06:002005-12-13T15:44:00.000-06:00The Chicken Littles are alive and well in the City...The Chicken Littles are alive and well in the City of Davenport.<BR/>I can think of a few things that could be removed from the 30 mil.<BR/>list of "to do's", the Police Station is not on it. We surely don't need 3 sidewalk Superintendents micro managing the construction process. Maybe they could help out when we start building the"NEW" parks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com