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Dear South Euclid City Officials,
We have a few money saving ideas that should have been obvious to you, but apparently are not.
First off, this whole land grab concept from Cedar Center to the Greenvale 9 and all the foreclosure acquisitions tally well over 20 million dollars by now, and are still climbing. It was recently disclosed that the only payments made on the Greenvale properties since their acquisition 3 years ago is $60,000 each year in interest charges.
Now there’s that pesky playground fiasco. How much City money really went into that anyway? Has anyone calculated how much money was “donated” by the taxpayers while well-meaning City employees were voraciously encouraged to work on the playground during their regular shift on the public dime?
Instead of doling out hefty raises all around, why not consider a long overdue pay freeze for department heads? And stop creating new positions. That’s becoming really annoying.
Regarding the hiring of yet another lawyer to assist in the daily activities of the legal department -- let’s hope this achieves the objective of putting the kibosh on the massive legal fees currently being racked up for outside legal counsel. If tangible results are not produced forthwith, please swiftly terminate this experiment.
Admitting the consecutive financial failures of the Greenvale 9, Cedar Center, and the Playground of Possibilities seems unlikely. At the very least, cease and desist with further gambles of this ilk.
Put aside your silly notions of grandeur and focus your full attention on basic city services at once.
Thank you.
South Euclid Oversight
Below is a list of previous SEO posts which offer insight on other financial decisions:
- Runaway Train
- Odd Man Out Is Right
- DIY Park Maintenance
- A Perpetually Changing Story
- 2009 Salaries And So Much More….
- Spin The Budget
- A Developing Pattern
- Not Reporting The Whole Story
- Hope You're Sitting Down For This One
- Financial Discrepancies
- Limited Reality
- Fiscal Fiesta?
- Mixed Messages
- Band-Aids vs Reconstructive Surgery
2 comments:
Well put! Let's add to the list the interest expenses for Cedar Center, the remediation costs for Cedar Center and the faustian bargain the city has struck with HUD for recent housing grants.
Some major unresolved questions:
1. What's the status of the Port Authority loan to South Euclid for Cedar Center?
2. What's the total amount the city has spent on interest payments/lost tax revenue on Cedar Center to date?
3. What's going on with the TIF debate in Cleveland Heights?
Isn't wonderful how the Law Director Lograsso get's himself on the job training by spending tens, errrrr hundreds, of thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal fees for administrative and legislative decisions that his cohorts make and he lacks the experience to handle. Why not pay for Rubin's Coral Company legal fees while your at it or at least help minimize them. Then there is the question of what Lograsso's take home really is and what taxpayers are getting for that! It's all so legal and yet so deceitful. Lots of enablers but who will lead the intervention. It will take a fanatical effort to get others attention focused on the many abuses being wrought upon the residence of South Euclid. I'm afraid the FBI can't help us on this one. Ineptitude and greed are more vices then they are crimes.
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