At last nights meeting Ald.Waldorf who is head of the streets and alleys committee brought up the subject of the Curb Program and told his fellow aldermen to get their lists ready for this project.
My first thought was CURBS? I don't drive on the curbs but I do drive on the streets which are in extremely bad condition. With limited money due to our debt, do we need to worry about our curbs? Possibly this is the year to say we are putting all available money into making our streets driveable again without falling into potholes the size of a tire. Leave the curbs alone unless they are a danger to the residents.
And on second thought Get RID of the old fashioned idea that we parcel out money to each ward, for each aldermen for his ward for x number of curbs. Please! we are ONE city and most of us don't know when we leave one ward and enter into the next. It is not important that each alderman gets the same amount of money to show his constituents that he is working for them. As said before some wards don't get as much traffic as others and they should not each get the same treatment. We are not children who need so much candy doled out to us. That idea is so archaic and yet year after they follow the same routine like lemmings to the sea.
When it comes to street, sidewalk and curb repair ignore the ward boundaries and do what needs to be done for the City of Peru, not Ward 1,2,3 and 4.
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OMG - finally someone else thinks this process of Ward 1,2,3,4 is archaic. I've been an advocate of the city as a whole for a long time. As a matter of fact I've presented the idea to my alderman but it seemed to go unnoticed. How do we get our aldermen to understand that we want to be become united as one city not a city of 4 parts? Could we present it at a council meeting? I agree, this is ridiculous especially now with our debt and the condition of our roads.
LOIS, WE NEED SOMEONE LIKE YOU ON THE PERU CITY COUNCIL. YOU HAVE A BRAIN. MORE THAN I CAN SAY FOR OTHERS. YOU ARE RIGHT. DO THE WORST STREETS IN TOWN, MOST DRIVEN ON ROADS.PATCHING IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY, IT DOESN'T WORK, WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO LEARN.
I HOPE SOMEONE LISTENS TO YOU. BUT YOU KNOW, THEY WON'T DO THE RIGHT THING, BECAUSE IT WASN'T THEIR IDEA.
Did anyone notice that once again there is no room on Monday night's agenda for public comment? I feel that the public should have the ability to speak at any and all meetings. How do others feel?
I agree, we should be able to express our opinions. I thought Mr. Harl, wanted open meetings. What happened?
I sent an email to city hall late Friday and I will be back with their answer, hopefully on Monday.
I"m not sure if my post went through so I'm posting it again. Does anyone know what our surrounding town aldermen receive per meeting? Are you aware that Peru's aldermen receive $95/meeting? Does anyone know when they received their last raise and, if they voted it for themselves?
Lois this was an oversight, the agenda’s are prepared by the Deputy Clerk, and I don’t know why it was left out. I spoke to the Mayor and he said he does always ask for Public Comment even if it is not on the agenda. (from Heidi)
I hope this is true but I seem to recall at least one meeting where no public comment occurred.
Unbelievable! Peru's Aldermen receiving $95 per City Council meeting. Peru's website lists 11 City Council meeting - 12/2/09 until 2/10/10.
Summary: 11 meetings consisted of a total of 897 minutes or approx. 1 hr 21 1/2 mins per meeting. $95 per meeting breaks down to $1.18 per minute and/or $70.80 per hour.
Does it appear time for the City Council to look at lowering their own expenses? Possibly reducing City Council meetings to every 2nd week with special meetings called for by the Mayor on an "as need basis".
Reduction of the number of Aldermen.
If anyone else has cost savings ideas please send them in. With the City being $43,000,000.00 in debt and a Moodys rating of A3 with a downward trend the City needs all the input that it can get.
Do the math citizens of Peru. If ANON 7:02's information is accurate - $95/meeting times 11 meetings in a 2 month period equals $1045/alderman. $1045 times 8 aldermen equals $8360/2 month period. $8360 times 6 two month periods in a year equals $50,160. Any ideas on how we could save some money? How about cutting the number of meetings in half ($25,080 savings/year).
Makes sense now that some streets in an Alderman's neighborhood are fixed before other major roads. Don't even get me started on the intersection by the mall/MC Sporting goods. What a disaster.
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