Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Mayor Yarber hosts Town Hall meeting.

Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber hosted a Town Hall meeting Monday night at Bellweather  Church on Old Canton Road.  Here is the video of the discussion.


12 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do we find out about these things before they happen?

Anonymous said...

Mayor's office is cooking something in the back of the store in regards to transit so is not explicit. One must read between the lines if you are not an insider to the planning and inter-local negotiations. Looks like a re-tooling of the transit fixed routes and fleet. You have to watch the clip a couple of times to figure out where the city is going or wants to go with the State of Miss, downtown, JSU, infrastructure, transit, etc.

Real estate prince said...

I am encouraged by the Governor's promise to appoint a Jackson official in MDA. Who might that be? What are her marching orders?

When forty years of banking and state planning focused on the development of suburbs, we will put the brakes on it now?

Anonymous said...

7:49, what does that mean? A staff member whose job is to help Jackson?

Anonymous said...

hell just repair State Street....its like driving through a maze between Fondren headed north.

Anonymous said...

7:05

They are posted on the city's website. There are others scheduled.

http://www.city.jackson.ms.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=75

I'm not sure if they were printed in other media.

Clem said...

GO Tony!

Anonymous said...

The Mayor is off to a good start. However you get the idea that he might completely wear out his senior management team with unnecessary process and meetings --more related to education theology, fads, grant lingo, and rhetoric. The potholes are getting attention and his team is currently motivated.

Anonymous said...

In order to get City news right on your own computer or phone go to:
www.jacksonms.gov and sign up for Jackson News.

The meeting on Monday was excellent and I would advise anyone interested in Jackson to attend.

To the person mentioning transit: Do you think it could be improved? Or, do you prefer it to remain the same?

Anonymous said...

Common mentality, even in Los Angeles, is car culture. A massive earthquake in Calif. and/or $5 per gallon gas might change the cowboy mentality. A quarter of the economy is based on the car. A generation might wise up if certain economic conditions force the issue. If government builds an experimental bike corridor, connects a pilot suburb and uses incentives it could happen. I would be very impressed if the State and Yarber did transit different. Yes, transit needs to change, but the common mentality does also. Citizens that depend on JATRAN still need the reliable and affordable service however it might be redesigned by planners.

Anonymous said...

Any one who has travelled in Europe or especially in the Scandinavian countries knows we look like " horse and buggy" by comparison.
I wonder if we had this much trouble giving up horses?

Anonymous said...

854 ha.... I wonder if they would build a horse trail and then I'll strap a webcam across his butt to protect myself from the drivers that try to drive on road. but then I'll get on my next pedestal... ..bike riders need tags if they want to ride on the street just to put a little revenue back into the street that we had to build for them. I'm not against bike riders but a road is not the place for them! one hit my car the other day at a red light and scratched side of my car and then took off so there is no identifier. hell I think any vehicle, bike, etc motorized or not needs a tag as these bike trails cost the taxpayer millions for Mississippi. and they are not contributing anything to ride on it! --ok I am finished bitching


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