Dome District Parking Meeting Tonight
City Manager Eric Anderson’s downtown parking discussion series continues with a meeting tonight at Freighthouse Square. Do you have opinions about the future of parking in Tacoma?
When
Today, Monday, February 12, 2007 – 6:30 – 7:30PM
Where
Freighthouse Square, Phoenix Room (east end of the Square)
Address
430 East 25th Street
Link to the City of Tacoma
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1 comments
J John Sherman October 29, 2008
Seems-to-me that nobody cares that City of Tacoma Municipal Public Utility(s) are in the process of utility services provided ratepayer increases consideration—-a few percent increase here, a few percent increase there, and apparent the ratepayers [Citizens of Tacoma] will be paying more money for future specific defined services received from many specific Tacoma Municipal Utilities.
Even Surface Water or Storm Water is under consideration for ratepayer rate increase consideration—-for instance within the City of Tacoma has anybody seen any City of Tacoma Stormwater or Surfacewater maintenance trucks and work crews [stormwater logos for equipment and clothing] that fix the stormwater catch basins grills; as a result, so narrow bicycle tires don’t fall into the basin? Or, maybe the wastewater utility is doing double duty using wastewater people, equipment, and resource to do these maintenance activities for benefit of surface water municipal utility defined and services delivery results. And, something about the treatment future requirement applied to stormwater treatment before discharge. Clean stormwater discharge effluent into Puget Sound water bodies should be a real news subject for public presentation in-itself; it follows, we the Citizens of City of Tacoma should be informed on-hundred percent about some new technology application that is intended to be applied; as a result, will be one of the foundations upon which future stormwater utility rates will include. So, let’s all see the rest of this story now.
And, while I just think about this increased ratepayer rates proposed increasing subject matter; it just follows, who is paying for the City of Tacoma street sweepers to clean and pick-up debris on our Tacoma roadways (people, equipment, equipment maintenance, and management overhead costs)—-for instance, is this cleaning service paid for by City of Tacoma General Government using its funds and its resources or is some Tacoma municipal utility and the utility ratepayers picking up this road maintenance expense cost(s). Now that would and could lead to some interesting discussions; for example, what are utility ratepayer defined services and what is the responsibility of Tacoma General Government to fund, maintain, and accomplish? An interesting argument maybe.
So, I say there was some interesting content with Tuesday Tacoma City Council meeting presentation for some people, but maybe not most-people.