"Lois you have got to be THE biggest Hippocrate on the face of this earth. If Peru were to put up a Mural or fancy sign, YOU would be the first one all over it asking why our elected officials would waste money like that. DO NOT TRY TO DENY!!!! YOU WOULD BE ALL OVER THAT!!! Thank god 98% of the people who look at this blog are there only for a good laugh! "
Is this person a part of our city government? Tell me why someone would be so hateful about an interesting topic that many cities around the country have become interested in. Should Peru do this? I doubt that they would ever even consider it. Go into You Tube and search for either city murals or Walldog murals, Walldog cities and you will be amazed at what many cities have done. I've been told that Streator will be hosting a Walldog event in a few years. I'm getting the feeling that Peru is trying to isolate itself and I hope I am wrong. I only post topics that would be interesting to our city or our area and oft times those that other cities have been successful with. |
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Wednesday, September 09, 2015
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I don't like murals painted on buildings. I think they look tacky, and they generally contain some sort of "message."
The mural at the old Amici Restaurant is beautiful and contains no message.
If you people think Lois is negative, read the majority of anonymous blogs. They are negative, many times demeaning, and most often not constructive. At least Lois brings up ideas, suggestions, and backs those with proof that they either work or fail in other communities and maybe would do the same for us. She does a lot of research and puts in a great deal of time and energy trying to make Peru a better place to live. And, while doing this, she continues to receive many negative and downright mean comments directed to her but she still pushes forward. Whether you want to admit it or not she has opened our eyes to many things that otherwise we would not have been aware of because our representatives seem to have closed that "open door policy" they promised us. (i.e. the task force committee recommendations)
Most of your blog is filled with hatred and name calling but I don't see any hatred in that post. Many positive things going on our city (and yes areas that need improved as well) and you fixate on ridiculous things like this painting murals. As with about 90 percent of your posts the vast majority of people disagree with you. Plain and simple. Of course you won't post this because you filter out comments that do't fit your political agenda, whatever that is. Please just don't try to say it is improving anything.
9:17 The blog definitely has improved things. We all know the C,PPD reads the blog. When he sees something brought up on the blog that needs attention, he gets it done.
2:12 Lois volunteered to clean up flower planters, plant hanging baskets and planters and clean up weeds in the flower beds. If you think she would complain about using money to pay for murals to make Peru look better, why didn't she complain when money was spent on the flowers?
There are many good things happening in Peru, but there is no sense of community pride or community involvement. Volunteers are not wanted, ideas are not wanted unless you are a part of city government. They have this idea that they are above the regular Peru resident and our opinions are not needed or wanted. Besides Maud Powell, what kinds of events or festivals are in Peru? Nothing for the kids to do in the summer unless they play baseball, or go to another town for swimming. Yes there are good things happening in Peru with the roads, but what else?
9:07 Your representatives don't have offices to have open door policy. If your talking about city staff, they all have open doors.
You did a good job of skirting the statement! If the city were to spend money on a mural or a fancy sign, would you blast them in this blog for wasting money? THE ANSWER IS MOST DEFINITLY YES!!!!!!! You would find the negative in something positive, because that is what this blog is all about. Again thank you, you make me laugh every day!!
12:34 PM
u r clueless
Utica is hosting an event to allow residents to come to a meeting and give ideas and suggestions about how to make Utica better. Do you think Peru's mayor would ever do such a thing? He acted like he would have town hall meetings to let people speak when he was campaigning, but besides the sales tax increase for roads, there have been no town hall meetings to my knowledge.
PERU WOULD LOOK A LOT BETTER, WITH CLEAN STREETS, LESS WEEDS AT CURBS, CATCH BASINS CLEANED OUT. CHIEF BERNABI YOU ARE SLIPPING, I THINK YOU SHOULD GIVE UP ON TRYING TO BE SUPT. OF STREETS, THE CITY NEVER LOOK THIS BAD UNTIL YOU TOOK OVER THE JOB. DO YOU EVER JUST RIDE AROUND THE TOWN, LOOKING AT SOME OF THE MESSY STREETS? PLEASE DO. MAYBE YOU COULD PUT SOME OF THE MEN TO WORK ON THEM.
I would not pay for murals with tax dollars. Having a fund raiser and giving permission to property owners to do something like this in the downtown area is fine. But don't fund it with tax money. Use that money for some of the basics like is mentioned in the 1:57 post.
Many of the towns surrounding Peru have done some unique and exceptional projects to increase their awareness in local and far away communities. At this point it must be determined who is responsible for the projects successes. Mayor Scott Harl and the Peru City Council have always been willing to help with a financial donation and city property to Peru organizations for open public activities. When present at city council meetings I have personally witnessed both Doug Bernabei and Jeff King happily accept additional responsibilities to assure positive results. Along with the two Chiefs have been the city employees who have continuously always done a outstanding job, and out do themselves to achieve city successes.
The next ingredient in each of these towns promotions is easy to identify. It is you and the rest of its citizens. We have to combine with our city representatives presenting fresh, original ideas which will benefit the city. We also must do what legwork each of us is capable of and must adapt and maintain a winning attitude within the concept of teamwork.
I was watching the Chicago news last night and I think Peru is sitting on a Gold Mine and we don't even know it. Chicago is going to put a 10% tax on movies and other video that people watch on the internet. It would be and extra dollar or two on every video downloaded on Netflix or ITunes or other services like that. Its not that much to the individual but it could be several hundred thousand or maybe a million for the City. Its called a Cloud Tax and Peru needs to seriously consider this.
Also - since gas is so cheap now, Peru should consider an equalization tax to keep the price steady - at say $3.00 a gallon. This would be in addition to the other taxes, but would be variable. Today gas is around $2.20. Since the other taxes are percentages and the price is so low, the City of Peru is getting ripped off by the lowering prices. This is less money for the budget. The equalization tax would keep prices steady at $3.00 during periods of lower gas prices. This prevents the oil companies from ripping off cities by lowering prices AND it allows for easy budgeting for the people. If gas goes above $3.00, then the equalization tax would be zero. But for now it would be about 80 cents a gallon going to the city. We would need to do this across the board though, because of say Oglesby didn't do it some people would go there to buy their gas even though it would be shameful and greedy.
Art Giese nailed it.
Who organized LaSalle's promotional group? LaSalle is doing a wonderful job creating and organizing activities for the community. Who got that group going?
5:28 Your sarcastic we hope. Let us know when you will be in office, I will move away with the rest of the town. Cloud tax and equalization tax look like ways to gouge the consumers. I don't think Peru has the same problems as Chicago and why create another taxing item. What we need is to eliminate taxing bodies without services and there are many. Do we need all the school districts? The Townships? Library districts? Park Districts? That's what we can't afford. Hopefully, the plan in Springfield is to consolidate taxing bodies, eliminate pensions for elected officials, be practical with state workers pensions, create better business practices, eliminate lobbyist control and get the guns away from hoodlums. It looks like if the simple task of passing a budget can't get passed the hope for any other change is slim.
8:26, that is easy to answer. Concerned Citizens that did not get souled at, laughed at, or patronized by the City Government. Concerned Citizens that had as their goal a quality event for the people - not simply a way to filter money to their own business or the business of a friend.
5:28 AM - I looked at the calendar and today is not April first. So I suppose to believe that horse hockey that got you out of bed so early in the morning. Or maybe you just didn't have your coffee yet and you where still in some sort of Socialist dream world. We are not going to get the economy booming again by giving more money to the government. Quite the opposite!
12:07, what do you mean quote be practical with state pensions? To be practical would mean quit using the money you agreed to for everything but the pension and quit blaming everyone but yourselves for the situation you, yourself got us in, right?
We should charge state income tax on pensions.
What specifically do people expect financially from their pension or multiple pensions? I do know that at one time a pension was to be a compliment to one's savings. Today many are drawing as much if not more than their normal working wages.
With the increase in longevity we are not far from drastic changes in our retirement programs. When the rapid advancement in technology and longevity are combined there are not going to be enough jobs to go around nor enough people working to support social security.
I do not believe that the government is exactly correct in allowing someone to retire from a government occupation and to draw a pension form another government position except from a military retirement to another government position.
8:38, the Federal Government has largely done away with pensions in favor of the Thrift Savings Plan which is essentially a 401K type "defined contribution" plan. But, even when there where pensions, "double dipping" was outlawed in the 1980's. With that change, a person could not retire from the military and get a job with the civil service and qualify for benefits in both. The civil service pension was usually larger - so it would be reduced by the amount of the military pension.
It is a sad thing, but some government workers expect to be paid as much in retirement as they made while working. The funny thing is, it is not usually the traditional trades that get this treatment. It is the white color workers getting large pensions. Retired School Administrators making $100K with automatic increases for inflation, retired College Professors making $150K, retired Clerks making $65K. All under 65 years old. These are local examples.
It has to change quickly. The Baby Boomers are retiring by the bushel basket and there are not enough people working to support them. But, the Boomers have a history of doing things for themselves regardless of the consequences to everyone else. They will take everything they can get and the younger generation will be forced to pay them.
12:24
Your looking at the 1%. Those school positions do not get the social security that other positions like the trades get. The double dipping and political pensions should be eliminated.
"The double dipping and political pensions should be eliminated." - Agree
"Those school positions do not get the social security" - I'm tired of this being tossed out there. Because they don't pay in either. And the employer doesn't pay in. So they have thousands of extra dollars a year to invest for themselves. And before you say that they pay in to their retirement system - so does everyone else while at the same time paying in to social security. Then there is the whole thing about TRS contributions. Some school districts don't require the teachers to pay in - they let the taxpayers pay the teacher's portion as well as the school districts portion.
In the school districts which the teacher does not pay in wouldn't this be a contractual clause in the contract settled by the teachers union rep and legal rep. and the schools legal rep., super and board? Truthfully I don't know how much I am paying. So shame on me and if I did know what could I do about it?
4:33, yes it is part of the contract. I don't think any districts around here have had the gumption to try it though. But, the fact that it is in the contract doesn't make it any better. It is essentially a back door raise.
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