audios, amigos

Instead of watching CBS Sunday Morning today, I listened to the Jan 17 City Council meeting (available on the City website in .mp3 format) in order to separate out the discussions on different topics, and to create sound bytes and highlights.

Originally, I intended to upload only Ed Van Awken's comments to City Council about the Carbondale Park District's plans to subdivide and sell parcels of the Hickory Lodge property, but so many important topics were discussed, that a few more were added to the list, beginning Cole's descriptions of the main goals and guidelines of the City's upcoming budget process: Growth, Services, Involvement, Neighborhoods, and concerned comments by citizen activist Hugh Muldoon and Councilman Wissmann's helpful reply to Hugh and anyone else who wishes to have more input in the process.

The Carbondale Cleanup program received a lot of discussion too, Corene McDaniel and others kept referring to yards that have five (5) cars in them. I'd like to see this yard . . . and snap a foto fer ya, Bloggy -- maybe add it to my application for the new $17 and change per hour "Neighborhood Inspector" job.

A few more links and audio files still to come, but it's such a wonderfully warm afternoon, a bicycle ride and walk around the lake beats the NBA today, or curling up with a good book. See you on the bridge, Bloggee.