Middletown Forum : All-America City in 2020

All-America City in 2020 : What an idiot.

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:04:48 +0000

Author: Bocephus
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 19 2016 at 7:04am

What an idiot.

All-America City in 2020 : Who is he trying to kid???Every...

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 01:51:23 +0000

Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 14 2016 at 1:51am

Who is he trying to kid???

Every bit of extra money that he can squeeze out of the taxpayers will go to the same place it has always gone the last 18 years!!! Right back into that big black hole: THEIR downtown, for the enjoyment and protection of a few who are lost in the 1880s!!

The roads will continue to crumble (unless the state or the feds pay), and they will continue to keep businesses out (except for buggy whip makers and other such Mulligan-approved enterprises).

(Remember: the design life of city streets is 25 years. If it takes THIRTY years to fix them all, the ones fixed the first five years will be in RUIN again...unless they are downtown, which seem to get repaired/replaced every few years.)

All-America City in 2020 : ok---should be done by noon Tuesday(Sunday...

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:52:54 +0000

Author: spiderjohn
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 13 2016 at 11:52am

ok---should be done by noon Tuesday(Sunday and Monday are holidays!)

All-America City in 2020 : Is it April Fools Day already? ...

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 09:44:44 +0000

Author: Vivian Moon
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 13 2016 at 9:44am

Is it April Fools Dayalready?

All-America City in 2020 : Great, your mission if you accept...

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 09:17:26 +0000

Author: acclaro
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 13 2016 at 9:17am

Great, your mission if you accept it sj, is to do the following.

Go out and identify the businesses which are expanding and desire to open a footprint in Middletown. Please identify at least 1400 new residents interested in buying houses in Middletown, as you need 4x the number targeted, as only 1 in 4 qualify in mortgage loans. As it takes at least 1 to 3 years to sell the average home, your time is limited to bring in these new residents by 2020 and also raise property values. For over 25 years, the city has averaged less than 2% CPI, or less than inflation, so with a global recession on the horizon, how is the increase to occur?

Your mission also is to provide details when the announcement will be made that MCSD is in receipt of EXCELLENCE standing, which also will be the backbone for the influx of new residents, new businesses, and increased property value. If possible, please give assistance to AKS to begin turning a profit, the first it will have in 2016 in 3 years.

This message will self destruct in 30 seconds. Good luck.

All-America City in 2020 : Hey--I hope that he pulls it off...

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 08:11:25 +0000

Author: spiderjohn
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 13 2016 at 8:11am

Hey--I hope that he pulls it off somehow
Nothing bad about a lofty positive set of goals
At least someone near the top and is trying to move the needle
Maybe hit 25% in 3 years and hope that momentum and private sector takes it from there

Still have concerns about what it is going to cost those with assets who are willing to stay, and who locally is going to benefit
Though still burned out on the "downtown" obsession when the rest of the city continues to be ignored

Where does the new school admin fit in and what are they saying?
The Chamber?
We need a lot more than talk and promises

So--I am very bored when in town
Put me to work boss!

All-America City in 2020 : $3.9 Mm In Revenues = 1400 $10.00...

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:23:07 +0000

Author: Factguy
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 13 2016 at 12:23am

$3.9 Mm In Revenues = 1400 $10.00 jobs generating 509,000, 350 new jobs at $40,000 generating 420,000, 425 new families making 40,000 annually generating 290,500, 800,000 in street light fees.

Give Mr. Adkins credit for an equation which theorizes how to reach $3.9 Mm. But there is no HOW given, nor WHERE.

Is there any pipeline for any of this in the funnel, besides the street light fee diverted from city general fund to residents? If so, there is no discussion on the pipeline.

Lets triple the revenue and use the same formula. Economic Development, provide a plan that details what companies are moving in to provide 4200 10.00/hr jobs, 1050 new 40,000/yr jobs, 1275 new families making 40,000 annually. $12 Mm in new revenues.

The plan is 10% objective, 90% how to obtain. There is 90% missing economic development must be plugging in.

The clock is running.

All-America City in 2020 : 'I am going to build a wall,...

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:21:00 +0000

Author: acclaro
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 12 2016 at 10:21pm

'I am going to build a wall, a great wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it." Make America Great Again.

Evidently Donald Trump's ambiguity has reached Middletown. Its going to be great, really great.

All-America City in 2020 : By 2020 I will aspire to be named...

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:15:40 +0000

Author: Dean
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 12 2016 at 9:15pm

By 2020 I will aspire to be named President of Duke University, but instead, pass on such an esteemed role, taking a role heading The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for which the Aids virus will be globally eradicated. I will be a Nobel Prize recipient for my tireless efforts to bring about stability within the middle east, and successful efforts converting ISIS members to Evangelical southern Baptists. I have set a goal of possessing a net worth of $40 Billion and supplanting Michael Bloomberg, and be named 39th in FORBES richest individuals in the world. By 2020, I plan on holding a patent using nanotechnology to create a device of osmosis, creating a filtration mechanism that takes out alkaline sea salt from ocean water and converting to clear drinking water. The patent is so successful California is expected to have water reserves so abundant, twenty four, seven day weekly lawn sprinkling will be allowed and global warming alarm is abandoned, as sea level elevation is lowered by three feet annually.

My friend Nate Silver from five thirty eighty determines my odds at achieving these lofty goals at 13,000,000,0000 to 1. But that is better than the odds of Middletown accomplishing any goals the city manager targeted, other than sewer and water rates going up at least by 60% and the street lamp costs of $3.00 monthly being passed on to the taxpayer.

The city manager's goals are a canard, a smokescreen, providing a plethora of goals so local disciples will champion the cause of pain and suffering of $800,000 to obtain the unobtainable and known to be so; $3.8 Million in revenues for the benefit of the common citizen, thirsting for fresh asphalt on the neighborhood street.

Painting city cars, making an exit as cool as Monroe, fireworks in July cloaks the real desire in the city. The goal is to raise rates on sewer/ water and street lamps, and diverting attention away from costs into a vision of a big kettle of nearly $4 Mm. There will be $800,000 annually in the kettle only, derived from rate increases. The other goals is nerve gas to make everyone feel better while the tooth is pulled out.

All-America City in 2020 : Anyone taking bets on this timing?Note...

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:20:33 +0000

Author: VietVet
Subject: 6269
Posted: Feb 12 2016 at 8:20pm

Anyone taking bets on this timing?

Note to Adkins and the rest of the kool-aid drinkers......

Reality check....

You can't repair the damage that has been done to this city in the last three decades in 4 years. Too much to do to fix everything in that time frame

Destroyed streets/infrastructure

Wasted concentration on a downtown that has brought absolutely no return in investment

Decent paying jobs, lost in the 70's and 80's and never replaced leaving a city with pathetic service, retail and fast food choices for the people

Destroyed city image leaving the city with a reputation as a poor, low income, ghetto-like city full of high crime, drugs and the habit of attracting the dregs of society with nothing to offer quality residents to town. Quality people don't like ghettos

High taxes, water/sewer rates and now, city light assessements and lower level service offered as a reward

Property values in the tank

Poor schools with a "must avoid" label tacked onto them by potential residents

A catering to the inner circle of city hall friends and an exclusion of 98% of the residents from a say in their city's operation

Little entertainment choices and a lack of interesting choices for the children of potential families as residents

A downsizing of police and fire services

A city government, including a city council that will not listen to the people or ask for resident input

A major employer slowly working itself into oblivion

A non-cohesive, dysfunctional community that is so apathetic and in such disarray it refuses to function as a normal city should....or as Middletown did decades ago

The refusal of city leaders to admit reality and deal with the real basic issues substituting that belief with nonsensical city projects (bike path, dog park nonsense) that don't deal with the basic foundation issues needed as first priority

A non-desired city losing population, primarily because of the poor schools and the poor way the city is being operated

"Want" all you desire Adkins. It is nice to have a dream, even though "pipe" in nature. Reality will set in around 2019. Better extend that AAC date another 20 years or so. Too much work to do here to maintain that aggressive timeline.