WHAT IS GOING ON IN DPW AND DOES THE REST OF THE COUNCIL EVEN CARE?

DPW is in a mess and Skip is to blame for not keeping his head in the game as a Department Head should.  He was under-qualified for the job when he was first elected and if he wasn’t a guitar player and native son he wouldn’t have lasted for 1 term as the department and City are both going downhill.  The fact that he is Charlie Brown to Madigan’s Edgar McCarthy is comical and she does have her hand up where a dummy has to have it placed.

First it was Skip’s son Mark who was arrested for DWI blowing a .18 and 3 other charges.  He had his girlfriend pick him up after booking and not only was she charged with DWI but also driving under the influence with their child in the car.  She has had a past DWI so her charges constitute her arrest as a felony.

Remember all this happened in February of this year over 5 months ago.  Who else would have 4 major charges against them and still as of July 23^rd still not have the case put before a judge.

Now, another story development. Frank Brimhall a DPW employee was involved in a traffic accident while driving a City truck.  SSPD issued him a ticket and arrested him for driving with a suspended license.  This could be a potential and most likely a lawsuit against the City.

This is yet another hair brained lapse for Comm. Scirocco and the Human Resource Dept. because insiders tell me that there are many DPW workers driving around without licenses also some not having the proper class of license for driving the larger trucks and equipment.  Scirocco should be doing a license abstract periodically to make sure that his employees #1 have drivers licenses and #2 don’t have any marks that would affect the status of driving for the City.

In the Brimhall case not reporting his license suspension and continued driving should be cause for immediate termination, union or not and this Council should not give him a monetary going away package as they always seem to do.

This is another case of why this form of Government should be changed not played around with like it is being done with now.  Everyone has to vote NO on the updated Charter as it will cost us big money because of all the raises everyone gets and the funny part is that this was the reason Franck, Madigan and Scirocco gave as the biggest reason to vote against Charter change last year, funny how things change when you are on the side of making more money.   Franck, Madigan and Scirocco must go next year and we hope the opposing Party’s put up qualified candidates against them, well in Scirocco’s case a monkey could probably do a better job.

WHAT IS GOING ON IN SARATOGA?

Are you asking yourselves, what is going on in Saratoga Springs? 

New sewer lines are going in on Congress St. and the work is being done by the County, are we paying the County and if so why can’t our own DPW do the work like they used to do and make money?

What is the latest regarding the alleged DPW arrest of Mark Scirocco and his wife who was driving DWI with a child in the car to pick up her husband from the hoosegow?  I think the venue has been changed and there has been nothing in the papers about this.  However, every day I read so many names of people arrested for DUI or DWI this has to be a political hot potato.

Under who’s authority on the Council was it when they build the new Woodlawn parking garage?  Don’t tell me I would guess Skippy’s.  The entrance to the lot is the size of a home driveway opening.  Does he dare buck the Mayor and Madigan and come to a simple solution?  Take out 1 parking space to the right as you enter the lot, remove the tree (plant in in the Park) and open up that exit/entrance so someone can get in if a car is in the outbound.

Paint stripes on Broadway so cars will take up 1 spot and while you are doing that put Mark Scirocco on a bike to drive around the streets in the downtown area to see if any more can be restriped.  Mark isn’t working,(can’t do his job without a license but he can ride a bike).

Safety situations cannot be ignored anymore because we are a very busy City these days.  The intersection of Woodlawn and Church and Railroad and Church are most dangerous if you want to take a left.  Whoever is in charge fix it, that’s why you are in your seat and getting paid no matter the amount.  YOU WANTED THE JOB.

Another street that is disconcerting is Franklin St. from Washington to Division St., with parking on both sides you can get 2 lanes of traffic in between the two sided parking only if 2 mini coopers are traveling that stretch.  Again, you asked for it so fix it.