MORE COLESLAW IN THE PUBLIC EYE

[AQUAMAN]

Yes, it's Ssssheriff Kim Cole in the LDN lazy news again. This time he's proposed a security camera/vehicle for researching lost souls in the PM Lake and elsewhere, also to patrol underwater, and inspect vessel bottoms as a reason for a new grant by the Feds. to cure the illegal ills of our local community. Really? We need this new spyster machine, and for what? Is it really necessary? And will it, in the end, be used SOLELY for crime investigations and crime scene type research? Or? Will it be also used as a monitor/spying machine on the boating public? Your guess is as good as mine! What a publicity hound this guy surely appears to be imho. One sad and unnecessary issue after the other, and still hasn't served out more than two hundred days on the new job.

[Willy]

I'd sure like to know who the architects contact person is in the Government  because that is the person who set this up and who would appear to have ulterior motives because that little move of bringing in an architect is going to cost the taxpayers dearly.

[XLFD]

Duty-wise, I think the contact person would be the County Administrator.  Fabian Knizacki has held that post for twenty years, a career politician that doesn't have to worry about elections and pleasing the people, just pleasing the commissioners.  When you're in that long you get into ruts and take shortcuts.  The costs of county projects seem to be-- at the very least-- non-competitive, and most of the county projects themselves mostly seem-- at the very least-- unnecessary. 

City Managers and County Administrators, with few exceptions, are not selected by City Councils and County Boards to be fiscally conservative. 

 

[AQUAMAN]

At last nite's MC Board meeting, the spyster Tuna robotic machine for $175,000 was turned down, and thank God. However, they did approve a jail renovation bid, one that the contractor themselves asked to be rejected. Does that sound peculiar to anyone else? Why approve a bid when it's not going to happen? Or make a lawsuit case out of a molehill? And why didn't the LDN article at least ask this same question of the board? Transparency and being a reporter on the ball are a lost art around here anymore. I wonder how much more of that $1/2 Million in requests by Cole was approved? Anyone know? Thanks.

[XLFD]

I'm checking into the details of that 'competitive bid' through the FOIA process.  Ludington City and Mason County have been getting too many one bid contracts, and it's because our public officials have either given private engineers/architects the ability to decide deals or have forgotten what the idea of competitive bidding is all about-- to reduce the prices and encourage free market capitalism at its best.

[XLFD]

This is the first part of that denial, every commissioner except conservative Mary Nichols voted against the barri-puter. She voting for applying now, but likely against it if it was approved.

[masonco]

I saw that as well, and was happy they are finally saying no to the frivolous requests. As for the others, they have to look at what got Cole voted in in the first place and approve some of that or they could hear from the community.

Of course this is just my opinion not fact