“What I’ve done as a builder my entire career is very similar to what the mayor does. A builder must bring together the interests of owners, city departments, codes, budgets, and neighbors. This can be an immense challenge. It’s what I do!”
Millions of dollars are wasted on frivolous projects, needless purchases and outright gifts to wealthy developers annually. If your money comes as hard as mine does and matters to you as I think it does, I hope you will help me stop this.
Recently, in nearly every neighborhood of our city, projects have been proposed, public meetings have been held, people have voiced concerns, and yet those projects proceeded anyway with little change. Some in our city, it seems, have forgotten that they work for us.
Many issues are a creation of our own city government. Whether it’s the problems created by the enormous apartment complexes near the university, the housing & parking mess planned on 100 East or, subsidizing wealthy developers–yet neglecting our small businesses–we can’t continue to make the same mistakes year after year project after project.
Neighborhoods affect every part of who we are in Logan, yet so many of them are being neglected. Your neighborhood may be doing fine, but the struggles of others affects Logan in many ways. My entire career experience has been: neighborhoods, growth & development, listening and the efficient use of money. I want to help our neighborhoods.
Can we afford on-the-job training? Experience really does matter. The mayor does for the city what I’ve done my entire career – building and maintaining large projects, multiple teams and big budgets. I know this stuff, It’s what I do.
Perhaps a concerned man said it best when he wrote to me: “In the past 15 years I’ve seen my property taxes triple, our utilities rates rise, our cost of living increase to be similar to the Wasatch Front, but our wages don’t even cover the cost of living.”
We have entire elementary schools whose children live below the poverty level. We have employees that work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Our teachers, police and firefighters are leaving because we can’t pay them what others can.
We need to build a one hundred million-dollar sewer plant, repair roads, finish sidewalks, fix water and sewer mains and yet we are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on flower beds in the middle of 400 North.
We are taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from struggling families and giving it to wealthy developers but on Riverside Drive on The Island, the elementary age children literally do not have one single sidewalk route to walk to school on. For them the only way to walk to school is on a road. Every neighborhood has similar pressing needs. It all comes down to priorities.
Every morning I roll out of bed, put on faded blue jeans, a collared shirt and tan work boots. Not because they are back in style but because when I show up at my job I’m going to get dirty. I’m going to come home worn out. Every dollar I earn comes hard to me. I am certain that yours …
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Downtown Parking: Regarding Thursdays HJ article ‘A Natural Thing’; how can anyone say that there is a ‘tremendous’ amount of parking downtown when the city has been discussing the need for a taxpayer-funded parking garage for years? Which is it–‘tremendous amount of parking’ or do we need a taxpayer-funded garage? Parking Ratios: Our officials use the words ‘units’ and ‘occupants’ …
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The Library: Why don’t we have a vote? Let’s ask Logan citizens want to spend $15M on a new library or remodel our current one? If I’m elected we’ll take a vote. Seems pretty easy to me. If everyone wants a new library we’ll buy the land we want outright, none of these tricky deals. The Emporium Trade: Clearly, we …
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