Health Board Tax levy

acclaro - none taken. I was curious as to how the Board was comprised. With something as serious as public health, I would hope and pray that they would have knowledgable and qualified individuals willing to serve the community. The very fact that they do this for no compensation makes it a true public service.

Fair enough Mr.Self.

Not interested in your inter-departmental gossip or eavesdropping. If you have specific comments made by specific individuals that you would like to relay about about other specific individuals--then spit it out. Quit beating around the bush with innuendos. Plenty of dirt on all of us. Small town--small talk. I seriously doubt that most within Admin like any of us, and many would love to see us go up in flames. No shocker there.

I get it now spiderjohn. With the 2.0% request the ballot language will read:

Wow! Fantastic and creative Bill. I'll put up a $$$ to have these on every car in town! Love it.    

Mike, you can place me in the same category (LOL). But I will still do everything possible and do hope there is an interest in organizing fully to defeat the levy and roll back tax to 1.5%. Between PAC. C State, the school mess, property value ruination, traffic cameras, sewers that are anyone's problem but the city's, extreme incomes for kids that Dad or Mom worked for city hall making in the mid to upper $70's, and the willingness to fix streets by fronting the cash flow, without using tax money, and alloting about $600,000, or less than 1% of the city's operating budget for repair, this city needs to have a wake up call, its over.

Well then, using the incredibly words of Todd Beamer, who helped bring down the doomed United jet headed for the White House into a crater in western Pennsylvania, what courage and patriotic sacrifice, "Lets Roll." And I do mean it. Non verba gratis. Action, not words this time around.

acclaro wrote: Well then, using the incredibly words of Todd Beamer, who helped bring down the doomed United jet headed for the White House into a crater in western Pennsylvania, what courage and patriotic sacrifice, "Lets Roll." And I do mean it. Non verba gratis. Action, not words this time around.

Alright then.....what are we gonna do about it this time? Get a flyer constructed and printed to distribute to the people reminding them about the last safety levy, what it did (or didn't do) for us and how it was used? Take important topics discussed here and remind people what they are getting for their money in this city? Tell them about the advantages of consolidation with Butler County on the Health Levy issue? Explain why the city income tax needs to be rolled back to 1.5% from 1.75%? (can't imagine this being a hard sell)

Develop a phone number to call for info?

List of registered voters in Midd. from Hamilton?

Is there a need to get more people registered to offset the city supporter votes? How do we motivate them to register and show up? Need their help, don't we?

Mass mailing of the info packet discribed above to registered voter households? Cost?

Meeting on who is doing what, where, when? Time ....place?

Cost discussion for info packet/flyer mailing?

Any distribution issues? Places to leave the info. for the most exposure on getting the info. to the people?

Anyone want to take some copies to city hall and distribute?



How about some MMF businesses like Cohen Brothers?

Billboard costs?

Who wants to get a list of people and addresses and personally mail a copy to our friends on council (of send the flyer in as an attachment in an E-mail) and at the city building and those city supporters and big doggies living on Main St. and in the Highlands area?


How serious are we here?

Vet, I am dead serious and am willing to meet within a few days notice, to put together a plan of attack, begin fynd raising, to go door to door. I know how the system works in Middletown. First, they exploit the friends of friends, the catholic block (I am one so I know), they leverage the county Republicn party (I know I am one and was offered the number 3 position there which I wasn't interested in the pecking order), then the schools (MUM), then select neighborhoods and the nursing and assisted living homes. We need the lower demographics amd the areas above, getting out people who will vote, but need assistance to vote but the numbers are on the side of the people.

sj, my personal interest and abilities lie in defeating the levy, and my approach would be to put the strategy and infrastructre to do exactly that---winning at the ballot box. Besides the obvious well knowns we both know, that would be too busy or just not intereested in running, the competent "outsiders" are travelers---tied up in court cases, clients, business, etc. No time to meet twice a month for meetings. Hence, my focus and interest is not as focused as stacking the deck as it is, straggling and starving the beast.

I believe that Council changes this fall, while any tax levy would be the following year--correct?

I see that Hermes is a convert to my "VOTE THEM OUT" campaign although I suspect he held this belief before I posted a word on here. SJ, I believe your suggestion to simply elect candidates for council that will implement the kinds of reform advocated on this board to be the best chance for success. Getting committments from candidates and organizing a coherent campaign that will reach the voters is the challenge as I see it. Based on the apathy of the general electorate in this town and the difficulty of overcoming the deep pockets of the powers that be in this city will not be easy. The next 90 days will be crucial if any serious challenge is to take shape. Let's see what happens!!!