The Cascade City Council found
itself in a predictable imbroglio Monday night. After having given Jesse Loewen
over $250,000 to redo the old bank building, a parade of other people are looking
for similar help: Nicole & Nate Meyer want money to tuck point their
downtown building. And why shouldn’t they get it?
Handing money to businesses for profitable activities
seems to be the norm. Also on the agenda was $11,004.48 paid twice
yearly to Brothers Market and $6,985.74 to McDermott Oil.
After the meeting was over, we were
reminded that the city paid $92,000 to match a RISE grant to build a road for
Premium Plant Products in the industrial park. But perhaps Council has learned
its lesson. Mike Beck was told to follow the ordinance on the books with his
current project.
Also on the agenda was the runoff
problem on Main Street north of the grade school. The water pools there and it
froze in February. A couple kids coming from the elementary school fell down
there. I went home and got my Yaktrax!
Monday I complained to council, the city
should be maintaining the sidewalks since half Cascade doesn’t have them, and
the ordinance arbitrarily obligates some citizens for expenses it doesn’t
obligate others for. You have to wonder what a court of law would make of an
ordinance like that.
The owners of the sidewalk didn’t appear, but
the situation isn’t going away, and is likely to get more dangerous--check this space tomorrow for a description and PIX!
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