MUSA Blog Forum http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; MUSA Blog Forum : Last 10 Posts Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:36:43 +0000 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.50 30 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp MUSA Blog Forum http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ AK Steel in Middletown, Ohio : AK is hiring http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2790&PID=17321#17321 Author: Hermes
Subject: AK is hiring
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 4:42pm

How does AK hiring a few people excuse the city of spending money WE don't have ??
 
I fail to see that logic.]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:38 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2790&PID=17321#17321 Middletown News, Info and Happenings : Auto & Gas Tax Fund http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2788&PID=17320#17320 Author: acclaro
Subject: Auto & Gas Tax Fund
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 4:13pm

From Nick Kidd in a prior post:
 
Acclaro, the Auto & Gas Fund was NOT part of  the 1987 change that allowed the INCOME TAX STREET FUND to be used elsewhere. The Auto & Gas Fund comes back to Middletown from the state from the license plate fees and gasoline taxes. The state requires that this money be used for three street related items. This fund is between $3 and $4 million dollars per year.
     1. Electronic (traffic signals-streets only) but this money has been used for signal at the airport and many other uses. If you remember a few years ago several signals were removed because there was no money for repairs.
      2. Street repair (where has this money gone the last 25 years)
      3. Grounds (this is for the shoulders of roads and medians only.) This money is used to mow the airport and all the parks and all other city owned property. The rest of this money just disappears.
   As you can see, misappropriation of these funds is and has been the normal from our city building for twenty + years.
 
So, the city moves GF allocation into the Auto and Gas Tax Fund, and  at least $1Mm has already been acknowledged to have been used or will be used, for mowing, and other "non street and bridge infrastructure" expenses.
 
I haven't had time to pull up the application as to how the state enforces (or not enforces) the allocation to Cty, and from Cty to Middletown.
]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:13:01 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2788&PID=17320#17320 Middletown News, Info and Happenings : Atrium ER Runs http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2789&PID=17319#17319 Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: Atrium ER Runs
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 4:07pm

Ashkicker:
 
I tried firefighting for a while...but I got burned out!!!  LOL LOL LOL
 
There was a rash of fires set in our in our neighborhood.  I told my wife that I hoped it wasn't arson or daughter. LOL LOL LOL
 
(Puns intended)
]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:07:11 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2789&PID=17319#17319 Middletown News, Info and Happenings : Atrium ER Runs http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2789&PID=17318#17318 Author: ashkicker
Subject: Atrium ER Runs
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 3:25pm

With the construction of the new health facility behind the clinic on Ninth Avenue, some citizens that would normally dial 911 may opt to go to the new facility.  If citizens choose to go to this facility instead of the Atrium, run volumes would decrease for the fire department.
 
Before someone starts yelling something like "firemen don't do anything but sleep and play cards, why should they want their run numbers to go down?", not everybody transported by life squad is a "true" emergency.  Toothaches, stubbed toes, earaches, etc. are not that uncommon.  If the department has to call a mutual aid squad from Monroe because just one of Middletown's squads is on a run that is not a "true" emergency, citizen safety is comprimised.
 
Middletown Division of Fire will transport anyone requesting treatment at the ER.  The only exception is the patient who routinely abuses the system and the department's Medical Director advises the department not to transport that patient.
 
911 operators decide which service you need, police, fire or both.
 
Fire away!  (No pun intended)
 
Ashkicker 
]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:40 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2789&PID=17318#17318 City Council : City Council Agenda For Tuesday http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2741&PID=17317#17317 Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: City Council Agenda For Tuesday
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 1:34pm

Originally posted by Mike_Presta

So…as explained during tonight‘s council meeting:

$500,000+ gets transferred FROM the General Fund INTO the Auto & Gas Tax Fund, to cover the costs of mowing parks and other areas outside of road or street right-of-ways (ROWs). This is done to save the cash-strapped General Fund some money. Then $345,000 is paid OUT OF the Auto & Gas Tax Fund to mow ALL of the grass. Can anyone explain to me:

1. How this saves the General Fund money???

2. Why there is not an EXTRA $500,000 in the Auto & Gas Tax Fund for street paving (or for alley paving in historic districts)???

Anyone???

Someone should have questioned this earlier!]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:34:46 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2741&PID=17317#17317 City Council : City Council Agenda For Tuesday http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2741&PID=17316#17316 Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: City Council Agenda For Tuesday
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 1:32pm

Originally posted by Mike_Presta

Can anyone explain why the following Resolution (R2010-05) is necessary tonight???  Exactly what does it do???  Do all council members understand this???  If not, will they vote for it anyway???
 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Middletown,

Butler/Warren Counties, Ohio that:

Section 1

The sums are hereby appropriated from the Transit Fund of the City to accounts of the City for the purposes therein described as follows:

FROM: Unappropriated TRANSIT FUND (Fund #530)                       $446,480

TO: Accounts of 530                                                                               446,480

______________________________________________________________________________

TOTAL TRANSIT FUND                                                                  $ 446,480

Someone should have questioned this earlier!!!]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:32:29 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2741&PID=17316#17316 AK Steel in Middletown, Ohio : AK is hiring http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2790&PID=17315#17315 Author: Bill
Subject: AK is hiring
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 1:29pm

I hear that AK is hiring 50 new hourly positions and 36 salaried.  I guess the city knew what they were doing when they paid $14k for a "Bright Past, Brighter Future" !]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:40 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2790&PID=17315#17315 Middletown News, Info and Happenings : Auto & Gas Tax Fund http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2788&PID=17314#17314 Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: Auto & Gas Tax Fund
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 1:24pm

What?!?!  I'm shocked,  shocked I tell you!!!  Shocked  Someone shoulkd hve pointed this out earlier!!!]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:24:07 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2788&PID=17314#17314 Middletown News, Info and Happenings : Second Hand Store Enforcement http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2787&PID=17313#17313 Author: Hermes
Subject: Second Hand Store Enforcement
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 12:59pm

You mean to tell me they are paying Price almost double what he made here ?!!! Our school board members must be professional liars if they gave Price such a high recommendation to garner that kind of salary. Thats pathetic !!
 
On the issue of Gestapo visiting these store's, is it only once to inform them of the procedures or will the Gestapo make surprise visits on occassion ? Had this ordinance mentioned Jews it would be a page straight out of Mein Kampf. I understand the need to have these business operate honestly & lawfully but it sounds more like intimadation tactic. ]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:38 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2787&PID=17313#17313 Middletown News, Info and Happenings : Atrium ER Runs http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2789&PID=17312#17312 Author: Hermes
Subject: Atrium ER Runs
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 at 12:45pm

Someone explain this to me because I'm having a realy hard time reading between the lines.
 
So are they saying that when you call 911 that they can make the determination whether or not you actually have an emergency that requires transport to the ER ??
 
Sorry I just don't get it.]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:45:48 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2789&PID=17312#17312