Ooops! Did He Say "Councilman Maczka"?

Well, I guess Councilwoman Councilman Councilperson Scott Dunn really did do that last night at the councilmen's  councilperson's meeting during the items of community interest. But I have a tendency to do the same thing. Back when I was growing up, it was councilman so and so, or chairman so and so, or policeman so and so, and then came along the gender neutral stuff. So councilman Dunn, you get a pass from me on that slip of the tongue, and will probably get a pass on it from all with the exception of the most intense of feminists.

But, to Councilwoman Maczka's credit, she has shown she has more of something, somewhere, than some of the other councilmen. She is a step forward, a big step forward, in comparison to some of the previous councilpersons. The city of Richardson is probably better for her being on council. (ya, that was kind of a compliment, but there is gaga precedence from me on that, according to Destiny)




The meeting started off with a surprise, at least for me,  during the visitor's section . Andrew noted some of the problems he and his HOA/NA have with some items in the Main Street project. He gave a good summary of some of the problems he has with some of the naming of items associated with the name of his neighborhood. They want to protect their name. There are also some problems he and his board see with the study and the plan the he and his board considered. His concerns seemed to be reasonable and present fairly and firmly. Watch the visitors section for yourself for some more information.

Another surprise was another citizen in the visitor's section speaking about the plan for the Sherrill Park contract propositions.

He noted a few things, and again it would probably be worth watching him make his comments in the video. First, we have a golf course that grosses about $4 million a year. Then we have a golf pro running the golf course along that is very well paid. He note that the city manager, who oversees a annual budget over $100 million dollars a year gets paid less that the golf course manager.

Another item is that the golf course is an "amenity". He notes that previously the city staff has pointed out that there are $100's of millions of infrastructure repair and improvements that need to be made.

Then there is the transfer of the golf course debt to the general fund. My guess, it looks bad to see that money was transferred from the general fund to the golf fund year after year. So it appears the solution for the bad looking numbers is to make them disappear by transfer the golf course debt to the general fund and show money being transferred from the golf fund to the general fund, making it appear the golf course is pulling its weight. Sleight of hand! I am glad to see someone else raising more than just eyebrows about that shell game.

The rest of the meeting probably of other stuff of interest, but those were the items I thought worth mentioning.