There is no doubt the school district punished the kids for their parents mistake. I can't imagine being humilated and hungary helped those kids stay focused in their classes after lunch. A better remedy would have been to publish the names and amounts in a school newspaper or in the Pilot; at least then the kids would not have born the embarassment by themselves. their parents would have had to hide their faces all day from their friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
Socrates said if anything made him wise it was that he didn't profess to know something that he didn't know about ie.. a poet talking about politics or a politician speaking about poetry or to relate it to Steamboat Springs a massage therapist making decisions about city planning or a trust funder talking about the plight of the working class.
With that said, I am still fine with City council members being lay persons but I am not fine with the planning commissioners being lay persons; they should have some expertise in planning, construction, preservation, architecture, etc...
Most cities empower their planning commission to do most of the real evaluation and make recommendations to the City council because planning commission members are normally industry professionals and know what they are talking about. This City council demoted professionals from their planning commission and appointed friends to the planning commission. This has led absolutely no where because even though they have appointed their minions they don't have any faith in their minions ability to make decisions; so the City Council gets double tasked as a planning commission and as a city council and end up micro managing everything.
In regards to the Oct. 11 comment. The edgemont developers have the vested rights to do a much more detrimental project that the city council cannot do anything about, so it is in the Communities best interest to work collaboratively with the developer and not confrontationally.
The truth as far as anyone can tell about the "concerned citizens" is they are headed by a lady who lives in Westminster and has a second home in Steamboat. Are we letting the vacationers dictate who should govern our city?
Bubba- not only do we not see any developers contributing to the challenger campaigns but they didn't start "Swift vote steamboat" or Swiftboat either. Concerned citizens for the future of Steamboat Springs is being organized by a second home owner living in Westminster. Why is somone living in Westminster controlling the messaging for the incumbants.
Why haven't we heard about the City Council making political appointees to the planning commission as opposed to appointing local area professionals. The planning commission is supposed to be made up of industry professionals so the City council can have faith in their recommendations. I don't know the whole story but I know the only architect on the planning commission was demoted to an alternate so that a friend of an incubant city council memeber could be appointed
Once the property was under contract and off the market the City should have disclosed what they were trying to do. There is a due diligence period in almost every real esate contract and that period is for the buyer to decide how feasible the purchase is. The council should have invovled the community is deciding its feasibility. What type of uproar would have happened if the had chosen to buy Rabbit ears motel, would everybody be giddy then?
People want to move to Steamboat and if there are only a few houses available then prices are going to go up and the wealthy will be the only ones moving here.
If you continue to limit growth you are only going to push the prices up and turn this place into an ASPEN. Growth itself isn't changing Steamboat; limiting growth and pushing prices up is changing the character of Steamboat. The City has tried to stop growth and that has only pushed the average price of a home above $600,000.
Give the City and County credit for preventing development on all it's boundary's except the West side and there they have been planning it for over ten years with public input(where were you? oh! you probably just moved here).
If you want steamboat to have real working people in it, you have to provide homes they can afford. Basic economics tell you higher demand and lower supply means prices go up. More supply equals lower prices.
Growth in this case actually does more to keep Steamboat who it is; because it lets working class people work and live here.
Schools not giving hot lunches to students with unpaid accounts
There is no doubt the school district punished the kids for their parents mistake. I can't imagine being humilated and hungary helped those kids stay focused in their classes after lunch.
A better remedy would have been to publish the names and amounts in a school newspaper or in the Pilot; at least then the kids would not have born the embarassment by themselves. their parents would have had to hide their faces all day from their friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
January 23, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Rob Douglas: Horrific crime rekindles debate
What happens to the DA's who hide evidence and wrongly convict? Maybe that should be a death penalty crime?
May 9, 2008 at 4:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Nerney camps outside pub
Can anyone recap his actual offense? or provide a link. In my opiniuon the crime would had to have been heinous to take a mans livelihood from him.
March 5, 2008 at 2:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Campaign practices questioned
Socrates said if anything made him wise it was that he didn't profess to know something that he didn't know about ie.. a poet talking about politics or a politician speaking about poetry or to relate it to Steamboat Springs a massage therapist making decisions about city planning or a trust funder talking about the plight of the working class.
With that said, I am still fine with City council members being lay persons but I am not fine with the planning commissioners being lay persons; they should have some expertise in planning, construction, preservation, architecture, etc...
Most cities empower their planning commission to do most of the real evaluation and make recommendations to the City council because planning commission members are normally industry professionals and know what they are talking about. This City council demoted professionals from their planning commission and appointed friends to the planning commission. This has led absolutely no where because even though they have appointed their minions they don't have any faith in their minions ability to make decisions; so the City Council gets double tasked as a planning commission and as a city council and end up micro managing everything.
In regards to the Oct. 11 comment. The edgemont developers have the vested rights to do a much more detrimental project that the city council cannot do anything about, so it is in the Communities best interest to work collaboratively with the developer and not confrontationally.
The truth as far as anyone can tell about the "concerned citizens" is they are headed by a lady who lives in Westminster and has a second home in Steamboat. Are we letting the vacationers dictate who should govern our city?
All tyrannys begin with the best intentions
October 24, 2007 at 1:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Campaign contributions
Bubba- not only do we not see any developers contributing to the challenger campaigns but they didn't start "Swift vote steamboat" or Swiftboat either. Concerned citizens for the future of Steamboat Springs is being organized by a second home owner living in Westminster. Why is somone living in Westminster controlling the messaging for the incumbants.
October 24, 2007 at 10:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Candidates tackle issues, ads at final forum
Why haven't we heard about the City Council making political appointees to the planning commission as opposed to appointing local area professionals. The planning commission is supposed to be made up of industry professionals so the City council can have faith in their recommendations. I don't know the whole story but I know the only architect on the planning commission was demoted to an alternate so that a friend of an incubant city council memeber could be appointed
October 24, 2007 at 9:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bob and Audrey Enever: Secret sessions OK
Once the property was under contract and off the market the City should have disclosed what they were trying to do. There is a due diligence period in almost every real esate contract and that period is for the buyer to decide how feasible the purchase is. The council should have invovled the community is deciding its feasibility. What type of uproar would have happened if the had chosen to buy Rabbit ears motel, would everybody be giddy then?
October 24, 2007 at 9:37 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Steamboat West group hosts open house for public input
People want to move to Steamboat and if there are only a few houses available then prices are going to go up and the wealthy will be the only ones moving here.
If you continue to limit growth you are only going to push the prices up and turn this place into an ASPEN. Growth itself isn't changing Steamboat; limiting growth and pushing prices up is changing the character of Steamboat. The City has tried to stop growth and that has only pushed the average price of a home above $600,000.
Give the City and County credit for preventing development on all it's boundary's except the West side and there they have been planning it for over ten years with public input(where were you? oh! you probably just moved here).
If you want steamboat to have real working people in it, you have to provide homes they can afford. Basic economics tell you higher demand and lower supply means prices go up. More supply equals lower prices.
Growth in this case actually does more to keep Steamboat who it is; because it lets working class people work and live here.
July 24, 2007 at 11:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )