Laubach Town Hall

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   Mr. Laubach.....my questions/observations to your responses.....

1. The airport- you stated all parties have moved forward....IMO,a generalization. What, in your opinion will be the outcome of the airport operations? Do you see it expanding? Do you see a more cooperative attitude coming from the city avoiding the fiasco that just occured? What role does the city see itself playing in airport operations? Will the city bow out and let the airport be an independent operator or are they obsessed with control? I like the comments by middletownscouter concerning Sunset Pool. I still don't understand why the city couldn't have mothballed the pool in case interest was regained at a later date. Activities are cyclic. The pool could have been one of those events. 

2. You are on board as to the success of PAC and Cincy State indicated by your positive comments. You must know more than we citizens then as to the certainty of CS signing a meaningful contract with the city as to a long term agreement in building occupancy. I (we?), don't have any indication as yet by the dialogue that CS will do anything as yet as CS President Owens still has to present it to the deciding powers that be on the board. Has the PAC made enough progress to convince you it is a momentum builder for the downtown? Staying open with activity one or two days a week doesn't seem to be active enough to matter, does it? I don't see it as being a "ball for fire" for activity as yet.

3. What is in the works now to change the image, selling our location and bringing jobs to town? IE...what is the city doing NOW, specifically, to rectify these issues? Is there a gameplan published from the city manager, econ. dev. dept and city council that one can read to see how they are going to accomplish this? If so, where? If not, we have more rhetoric but no real action.....just talk., don't we?

4. OK, we have seen what the VA Clinic, the Atrium, the 75 jobs from Suncoke, PAC, B.St.Bash, (Cincy State has yet to materialize, therefore, only speculation as to what impact this venture may have)has contributed to the city. Certainly welcomed, but not earthshattering. Did Wausau Paper create more jobs with the additional investments? This may be good in considering the "staying power" in Middletown for Wausau, but it may have not done anything for additional jobs that we so desperately need. Many positives.......some minor positives, perhaps?

5. There is no way out of getting rid of this city destroying program? We can't opt out and tell them to stop sending fed money as we are cleaning out all Section 8 to the absolute minimum required? We have no options at all in removing this plague from our city? It is KILLING this city if for no other reason than from an image standpoint. The last thing this town needs is to add to the already established "welfare cesspool" image other communities have established for us. We have managed, thanks to former and the current city leaders, to establish ourself as a low class, ghetto type town and the over-saturation of Section 8 has just added icing to the cake. You couldn't have made a worse decision than to bring this garbage into town IMO. WHY, other than fed money? Holding landlords accountable and monitoring Section 8 participants does nothing to address the real problem....over abundance. JMO

I appreciate the dialogue with my elected official. At least you are willing to communicate and that is light years ahead of anything most on council are willing to accomodate. I respect you for that.  Thank you. 