www.dnr.illinois.gov/.../greenwaysandtrails/.../gitusersguide.pdf
For those unfamiliar with the past history of the previously proposed bike path through Peru, this is a snippet of the trail as it was designed to go through Peru. Those working on it never came up with the manner it would progress through Bureau County that I am aware of. The part through Peru would have gone along Water Street and then up to Route 6. Chamlin did draw up a $3000 map which is probably now just history of an idea..
It was to be part of the #Grand Illinois Trail.
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Is the bike path up the old Brewery Hill and than Pike Street? Wasn't it recommended that if Parkside School was to get a grant for a bike path from the school and than the city would add on to extend the path?
Why hasnn't a goal of a local bike path been made up not one of 80 miles?
9:47 PM
Where would you like to see a bike path in Peru?
The Concert is over and don't anyone try to tell me that everything was just fine, no problems and that this concert was an example for all future concerts at the airport. An absolute waste of employees and manpower hours.
Just ticks me off that they continue to approve and never ever look at the down side. We should expect that all the time spent taking care of the problems is paid in full by the promoter.
I will tell you that slowly they continue to make safety and financial changes that have been called for on this blog and by Kristy. There is an effect on these stubborn fools. And of course they will continue to say is there ideas and pat themselves on the back lol.
any estimate on the number of people at the concert? I looked at the NT photographs and the crowd looked rather small to me. Any chance that the locals have seen through this scam?
Clerk Bartley was there. Did he volunteer his time or was this a work day for him? We will probably never know because he can just take a comp day off.
Lois, why do you say that without knowing if there was problems, if it did work well and people enjoyed it isn't it a good thing? The biggest problem I have with these concerts is the proceeds should stay in Peru, for are parks and schools and not go anywhere else, because it is our employees and venue she is using.
Driving to work around a quarter to seven this morning, I noticed that City of Peru employees where setting up the traffic cones for the construction on Shooting Park Road. Isn't the contractor supposed to do that?
If there were any problems at the concert we will never hear about them. And, this should have been a pretty calm concert as compared to the next one in August (or so I've been told). From what I'm hearing I can't even believe we are allowing August's concert in Peru.
8:29 PM
It happened, we are paying police officers for problems created by the concert when they should be patrolling Peru. It's only OK if Ms Noonan is paying all their salaries for any association with the concert and that includes traffic, accidents and dui's.
Dui's given? Other city employees there? comp day? Vacation day? Slider day? Christmas in July day? Donation day? Let's say a city of peru employee accidentally got hurt, on the job? Off the job? At one of these concerts. What insurance pays for this? Say for instance there is a workers compensation issue, how would this play out? Lots of questions.
8:29 AM, I have heard the same thing. August's concert is scary and the PPD better be ready for what this crowd will bring to Peru. That crowd is much different from a young country crowd.
Augusts concert is going to be this generations version of Woodstock. I can pretty much guarantee you that marajauna is going to be mixed with tobacco and rolled into what looks like a regular cigarette. I can't believe the city council and mayor were stupid enough to not do some research on this venue. Let's see all these peoples children/grandchildren at this concert in August. better yet, let's have all the alderman/mayor, along with their spouses/boyfriends/girlfriends/parents/grandparents attend, but remember no law chairs allowed! Why hasn't concert promotor had a blues music concert??? Would council approve this?
Tire slashing and a five car accident but nobody was hurt. So I guess you can say the concert was a success.
Anon 10:45, Wow your giving Noonan a lot of credit to compare this next one to Woodstock, really, your thinking a half a million people, that's Woodstock's number, my Streator has to be excited
Does anyone know if any member of our city council questions the type of venue that Ms. Noonan is bringing to our airport? or is she given carte blanche and allowed to make these decisions on her own? If this venue for August is as bad as I'm hearing why didn't at least one council member look into it and bring it up for discussion at a council meeting? Do we not do our homework when it comes to these concerts? I do know that tickets for yesterday's concert were being sold before council had even approved it. Lots of questions, any answers?
Better keep your pets inside around the time of the next concert
VERY small crowd at the concert last night. Shouldn't have been any problems that PPD couldn't handle. Yes, I agree money should be kept local since Peru taxpayers are footing the bill. (brings in revenue to the city, my ass!)
Noonan has to keep going further and further out of the city to find volunteers that will "buy" her bullshit! LOL
A professionally prepared Emergency Response Plan for an event the size of Kid Rock or more would range between 8000 and 15000 dollars in preparation. Future adjustments would be in the 2 to 5 k range each event.
Those who think the City of Peru professionals are paid to do this and have done it well need to figure that cost in to the labor. Its more than putting up fences.
These estimates are directly from insurance company files and reference event security firms.
Each of the companies I talked with did not believe a general liability insurance plan for an airport would cover any incident at an event like this, and would need an event by event rider.
8:20
You have no idea how much city employee time was spent on the shooting park road project! I sure hope the 2 supers are keeping track of the time and material used in this project and that amount is deducted from the contractor. If our "consulting" engineer was managing this mess, these issues and costs should not have occurred. I have an idea, deduct the $10,000's of time and material from the engineering companies paycheck. Maybe someone will be more efficient next time.
A friend of my family is a retired employee of Westfield Indiana. He was the building inspector. After an extended conversation with him I remembered bogs regarding our city's appointed building inspector. I asked him what kind of qualifications and experience he had to have for his position in Westfield . He told me he had been in the construction field for years and had to have certification certificates in plumbing, electrical, framing, roofing, he also said there were many more. After our conversation it brings me to question the blogs and the questions that have been asked. It also makes me question the creditability of the city's hiring process. Does our city require certifications for positions? I found my conversation to be quite interesting. I didn't know where to blog this.
Anon 9:44PM July 13,2014 In answer to: If Parkside was to get a grant for a bike path could the city extend off of the bike path. The answer is yes and also it was stated that this addition would be at no cost to the city.
The city fathers paid Chamlin Eng. $3,000 for this information which they should have acquired themselves.
Anon 11:22 AM asked if the council does not do its homework when it comes to the concert. My answer to this question that subject after subject brought before the council the majority of council members do no homework or preparation. If a topic cannot be covered in the council chambers during a council meeting there is very little research done outside by most members. At least 2 of the aldermen committees are nothing but a repeat of what Ch. Bernabei, Ch. King, Chamlin Eng. and Test have told them. As for the concerts very little knowledge is transparent. Word is that the promoter has made a huge haul in this concert from drinks and food. Small crowd with a huge amount of alcohol consumed per person in attendance. Many, many State Police seen in the area Sunday night on the exit roads.
Bike paths are about number 187 on the list of things that need to be done. Lets take care of the basics first.
I swear - this town is preoccupied with recreation. The trouble is, we don't have the tax base required to satisfy this preoccupation. People are getting older and spending less - the sales tax will not continue to grow. Forget property taxes, everyone around here is going to be on the homestead exemption pretty soon - so even if they raise property taxes, it will not increase collected revenue. After that, there is going to be a glut of housing on the market as the retirees pass on - further lowering property values.
The party is almost over folks. Without leadership that is willing to think 20 to 30 years into the future, this town is going to dry up and blow away.
When it comes to sales tax,. what % is from Peru residents and what % is non Peru residents?
What organized groups are studying needs of the community?
The first three things Peru needs to keep our young at home and to attract the younger age group are JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.
7:53 you know the answer. The majority of Peru sales tax revenue comes from the citizens of nearby towns.
There is nobody studying the needs of the community. Just "old money" sucking up every penny they can get. Most of our "leaders" both in business and in local politics are Baby Boomers- the most selfish generation in our history. They will do nothing unless they personally gain from it.
8:21, I take some serious dislike to your comment about Baby Boomers being the most selfish generation in history. The baby boomers contributed more to the Social Security system (that you are going to benefit from) than any other generation. Many of them can't afford to retire because of incredibly high medical care and general inflation that they didn't cause. Either you are very young or very naive. You certainly have a lot to learn about life and being selfish.
“The Baby Boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history,” Paul Begala - Advisor to President Clinton.
Here is why the Boomers are the "worst generation."
"But at the level of public policy and moral leadership, as a generation [they] have largely failed. The Boomer Progressive Establishment in particular has been a huge disappointment to itself and to the country. The political class slumbered as the entitlement and pension crisis grew to ominous dimensions. Boomer financial leadership was selfish and shortsighted, by and large. Boomer CEOs accelerated the trend toward unlimited greed among corporate elites, and Boomer members of corporate boards [sat] by and let it happen. Boomer academics created a profoundly dysfunctional system that systemically shovels resources upward from students and adjuncts to overpaid administrators and professors who by and large have not, to say the least, done an outstanding job of transmitting the cultural heritage of the past to future generations. Boomer Hollywood execs created an amoral morass of sludge — and maybe I’m missing something, but nobody spends a lot of time talking about the towering cultural accomplishments of the world historical art geniuses of the Boomer years. Boomer greens enthusiastically bet their movement on the truly idiotic drive for a global carbon treaty; they are now grieving over their failure to make any measurable progress after decades spent and hundreds of millions of dollars thrown away. On the Boomer watch the American family and the American middle class entered major crises; by the time the Boomers have finished with it the health system will be an unaffordable and dysfunctional tangle — perhaps the most complicated, expensive and poorly designed such system in the history of the world."
But I'd like to buy the world a coke :)
Don't forget the whole "60's" debacle. What was it... tune in, turn on, and drop out?? And the Vietnam protests. The only reason the protesters where against the war was because they did not want to go. Then they send the next generations to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hypocrites.
hmmmmmm... "The baby boomers contributed more to the Social Security system (that you are going to benefit from) than any other generation." Well now, they are the first generation to have Social Security from birth and they are the largest generation in history. So, I guess they did contribute more to the system than any other generation. However, despite knowing that the system was grossly underfunded they refused to increase withholdings throughout their lifetime. They knew in the 70's that the Baby Boomers would likely bankrupt the system - which it looks like they are. Did they demand increased withholdings. No! They want their cake but they don't want to pay the baker.
Anon 1:47, who is Paul Begala. An extreme left winger that does't agree with anything right of center, no matter if common sense with the agreement of both sides tells him different.
hmmmmm. lets see, most of our issues today have roots in the Progressive (aka Liberal) movement on the 1960's. We are being bankrupted, both economically and socially, by the liberal policies enacted by the Worst Generation (Baby Boomers). To have a "left winger", as you call him, point out that the Boomers are to blame speaks volumes. Even modern Progressives from Generation X and beyond believe the Boomers are the "Worst Generation."
Or what corrupted the process as we know it Union entitlements and pensions so possibly unions rather than boomers are the demize or the moral fabric of our nation Self fulfillment etc more for me me me the heck with others is not boomerism its unionism
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