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hymiebravo 
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Posted on: Sep. 10 2016,10:24 am |
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What all is done at this facility in this day and age as they?
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alcitizens
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Posted on: Sep. 10 2016,11:38 pm |
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I have learned over the years that the person that represents you can improve your quality of life or not..
The 6th Ward in Albert Lea needs a leader with a backbone to stand up and reveal what is going on with our tax dollars..
We don't want people representing us that are in it to subsidize their income.. We want someone that really cares..
Will the Blazing Star complex that the city wants $42 million for ever benefit you or myself? I don't think so.. Did Northbridge Mall in Albert Lea benefit the Skyline Mall? No!!
Our leadership is nothing but followers in Albert Lea.. I'm talking about the Albert Lea City Council.. They always do what the city manager wants done.. Whats the point in having a city council?
The city manager always mentions that certain buildings have outlived their normal lifespan.. The world has buildings that are hundreds of years old because they were maintained..
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Expatriate
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2016,7:12 am |
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The City Council voted to support applying for bonding money, these guys are moving forward with yet another grandiose project! Just like that new terminal at the airport millionaire boys club! What we have here is the perfect example of taxation without representation!
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Expatriate
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2016,8:05 am |
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Front Street should be left right where it is, I happen to like Albert lea Lake the way it is, a wildlife refuge. We all have access to the lake front the way it is, the city plan would move Front Street to the North for lakefront development and block our access and views.
I like the way these guys say well we don't have to repay the bonding so the money is free, well boys and girls nothing is free!
We have more pressing matters in our city, crumbling infrastructure that needs addressing and our city representatives spend our resources on some pie in the sky grandiose projects like the airport, waterfront development, and the public works building on Commercial Street.
Two of these projects are completely unnecessary spending of tax dollars, the city garage should be rehabbed but the project downsized considerably.
I realize a million dollars doesn't go far these days but we're taking 10's of millions on the Commercial Street Public Works Building, when you add cost overruns and all the accoutrements to accessorize the finished project we're talking major dollars!
Lets fix what really needs fixing before spend ourselves into the poorhouse. Lets remember we don't have the Industrial or Commercial Tax Base we had years ago, we don't have the population we had years ago!
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alcitizens
Albert Lea
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Posted on: Sep. 11 2016,8:31 pm |
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(Expatriate @ Sep. 11 2016,8:05 am)
QUOTE Front Street should be left right where it is, I happen to like Albert lea Lake the way it is, a wildlife refuge. We all have access to the lake front the way it is, the city plan would move Front Street to the North for lakefront development and block our access and views.
I like the way these guys say well we don't have to repay the bonding so the money is free, well boys and girls nothing is free!
We have more pressing matters in our city, crumbling infrastructure that needs addressing and our city representatives spend our resources on some pie in the sky grandiose projects like the airport, waterfront development, and the public works building on Commercial Street.
Two of these projects are completely unnecessary spending of tax dollars, the city garage should be rehabbed but the project downsized considerably.
I realize a million dollars doesn't go far these days but we're taking 10's of millions on the Commercial Street Public Works Building, when you add cost overruns and all the accoutrements to accessorize the finished project we're talking major dollars!
Lets fix what really needs fixing before spend ourselves into the poorhouse. Lets remember we don't have the Industrial or Commercial Tax Base we had years ago, we don't have the population we had years ago!
I have always enjoyed that stretch of Front St that runs along Albert Lea Lake.. The feeling you get early in the morning when driving by would be eliminated for the majority.. Only the very few would be allowed to enjoy the beauty of the lake..
Keep the shoreline public and not make it private.. We deserve it..
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Sep. 12 2016,10:30 am |
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On regard to the city garage thing:
I wonder how helpful several stations around the city would be instead of one giant one in one place.
You know like out at edge water they kind of have their own bit out there don't they?
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Sep. 12 2016,10:38 am |
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In regard to the lake area development -
I think the city is trying to re-brand itself as something other than a hog town.
Difficult task. This isn't some posh suburb or bigger city will tons of extra cash coming in.
I think getting more access to that lake in particular is good. If money were no object and i was allowed to do whatever i wanted. I would try to make that lake almost as accessible or more than the upper part.
Wildlife would still be around. They have the State Park area. Where you see heavier populations of a lot of the birds anyway.
But as Erdma said, the water is the jewel
And getting people down on the water gets them more interested in preserving it. And not using it for a garbage dump.
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was1
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2016,10:16 am |
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As far as the airport hanger - that all comes from $ generated strictly from airport user taxes, jet fuel taxes and the like. None of the$ should have came from the City coffers. There use to be a guy years ago who would be on this site that was in the know on this stuff. would be nice if he were still around to comment.
As far as the new public works facility, in my mind, all they need is a place to house the equipment and vehicles, and an area for the mechanics to work on the equipment and vehicles. A small break room, reception office area and a couple small offices for the department leads (street, utility, park). They should not need anything more than that. What is there now is in very poor condition and needs to be upgraded, but $10M of upgrades?
Front Street - leave it where it is and put any development in the Farmland site itself. Wasn't Front Street completely reconstructed like 15 years ago along here with all new concrete? There should be a lot of life left in that pavement and it would be a complete waste of $ and resources to rip it out to try and develop some lake property. One of the few things A.L. has going for it is the easy access to the lakes, why start taking that away now?
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