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randy
MUSA Official Joined: Jan 13 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1586 |
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Posted: Oct 19 2009 at 9:22am |
From City Managers Report
Section 8 Housing Committee We will hold the first official Middletown Housing Authority meeting on Tuesday night beginning at 5: 30 p.m. We will start the Council meeting at 6:00 p.m. After we get a feel for how the Housing Authority meetings will work, we can determine if the 5:30 time frame works best or if we need to adjust. To View the complete City Managers Report Click Here Middletown City Manager Weekly Update To City Council |
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Nelson R. Self
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I hear from One Donham Plaza sources that the City Manager may shortly recommend a new so-called HUD Citizens Participation Committee? If so, would this hand-picked group replace the now-defunct 13-member HUD Consolidated Planning Committee that she and Ginger Smith abolished late last year? Maybe we should ask Paul Renwick, Rosa Lean Lindsey, Reva Owens, Robyn M. French, Bert Grimes, Wanda Glover, Denise Pressler, Cheryl Burns, Dr. Foster and Walter Leap for their reactions if this information is true?
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VietVet
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Read Ms. Gilleland's report. Can someone tell me what the Preston Kansas excerpt is in the report for? Something about "Old West" building facades, a crematorium and some points made about being "business friendly". Guess the question is- why is this in the report and how does the article connect with the city of Middletown?
Is the Section 8 portion of the meeting open to the public before the actual council meeting or does it qualify for the old "closed door- personnel-city negotiations- Sunshine law" bits? Shall we ask questions in the citizen comments portion, not to get answers, but rather to hear Lawrence say, once again, that they are not prepared to answer at this time? You know- just to harass them a little. Kinda fun seeing that washed out look on their faces! |
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Pacman
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Here is the story Vet on your question. I noticed one big glaring difference between Preston, KS and Middletown, OH, do you see it. Plus I thought according to Admin and Council we weren't a dying City:
Roxana Hegeman Two massive concrete grain elevators mark this as an iconic Kansas farming community, a cluster of homes tucked among undulating fields of wheat, corn and soybeans in Pratt County. For all its simple beauty, the county has slowly hemorrhaged residents: Since 1930, nearly 30 percent have left, making it an all-too-common anecdote of a fading prairie population. But for Arizona transplants Ken and Donna Stanton, it’s the perfect place to build a mortuary and crematorium, the unlikely cornerstone of an ambitious community revitalization plan that features Old West-styled building facades, old-time streetlights and faux-board sidewalks. Joining the couple are more than 30 relatives and friends who plan to establish their homes, businesses and a nondenominational church in the town. “What is happening to Preston is truly a godsend,” said Mayor Wayne Scott, who graduated from the high school’s last class, in 1966. “I don’t know too many towns in rural America, across the country, that are having an opportunity like this take place for them. I personally consider it a blessing this is happening in our town.” For the Mesa, Ariz., couple, Preston has become a labor of love borne of deep-seated family roots. Donna Stanton’s late father, Don Cox, grew up in Pratt County, and her uncle, Dean Cox, still lives in Preston. The Stantons have taken family vacations in the town for 30 years. “My father-in-law loved it here. He had a dream to see this little town revitalized and we kind of caught the vision,” said Ken Stanton, 53. “It was kind of dwindling and drying up. I thought this was an opportunity to provide a service.” In its 1960s heyday, Preston boasted a post office, restaurant, hardware store, drugstore and two grocery stores. Today the only businesses left are the grain elevators and a butcher shop, along with City Hall and a senior citizens’ center. Like other small towns, many of its residents left for jobs in bigger cities, and small businesses dried up along with its population. The advent of cars made shopping in Pratt, 12 miles away, or Hutchinson, 41 miles down the road, an easy drive. In November, the Stantons bought a shuttered bar and grill — a brick building built in 1915 — to remodel as a funeral home that they hope to open in December — the first new business in their ambitious plan. The crematorium will be the only one in the area and they expect it to draw business from a 50-mile radius. The family also bought two residential city blocks for homes, a second downtown lot, and are looking to buy another downtown building for a ’50s-style restaurant. They said the biggest expense — labor — will come from family. Mike Schmidt, who has lived in Preston for 35 years, is happy about the redevelopment. “That will be a big boost for Preston,” the 54-year-old said. Most people left in the town are old and there is nothing there now to draw young people, Schmidt said. “Our Main Street right now is pretty run down … anything we do on Main Street is going to be an improvement.” The irony of a mortuary as the cornerstone of a community revival plan is not lost on Ken Stanton or his family. “This is a place people are dying to get into,” he quipped. His wife added, “We are coming to Preston to raise the dead.” |
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VietVet
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Well Pac, for one thing, Preston is an isolated farming community whereas Middletown is right smack dab in the middle of everything, yet has been passed by as to development and growth.
Another is that this development is being done with private funds and has been encouraged by the town leaders. Preston appears to be "business friendly" and "inviting"- open to out of the box thinking. Preston leaders have actually identified and are allowing to happen, an "ambitious community revitalization plan" without interference nor rules and regulations. Looks like the Arizona transplants are bringing to Preston, some of their family members also. Looks like Preston is allowing private citizens to buy the property rather than the city being in the real estate business. Also doesn't look like Preston wants to rely on fed handouts for their town revenue either. (Section 8, Gilleland) They want to get their operating money through taxes on business/growth instead of fed welfare money with the residual low income problems for the city. Are you going to use this as an economic development gameplan Ms. Gilleland, Council and the Econ. Dev. department????? What other purpose would you have to bring this up? OR, is this just another "vision" for the city that will not be pursued? (Paducah and that "shopping center convention boondoogle taken a year or two ago). |
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Mike_Presta
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I hope that they are not planning to use this as ammunition to throw another big wad of dough down the "Olde Tyme Downtowne Middletowne" hole.
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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rngrmed
MUSA Citizen Joined: May 06 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 309 |
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Why are these committees hand picked? Shouldn't interested citizens that can show up be allowed to participate? These are volunteer positions, right?
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wasteful
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