Posted below is Tuesday's work session of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors. The Board refuses to stream the work sessions online so yours truly went downtown. The agenda is posted below as well.
Topics covered:
Fondren Parking Garage: Start of video.
Waste Management & garbage fiasco: 22:30. The Supervisors had many questions and complaints but Waste Management had a simple response. A contract is a contract and this is what you signed. WM's David Holloway pointed out the Supervisors and County Administrator who negotiated the contract agreed to the terms and did not try to change any of them. This is what happens when you elect idiots to the Board. They jerked Waste Management around last year cozying up to Lee Bush, realized at the last minute there would be no garbage service, and signed a really bad contract no one on the customer side likes. Elections have consequences.
Watershed project update (52:00). This one was pretty interesting and took quite a while. Some of the supervisors' treatment of the watershed team was a little um, colorful.
Waste Management field questions again at the end of the video during public comments. (2:01:00)
Public Comments: 2:00:00. One amusing comment took place at 2:08:30. A so-called voting rights activist needed the basics of Hinds County precinct operations explained to her. Voting right expert, right?
The part of the meeting dealing with the District Attorney and precinct consolidation will be covered in subsequent posts.
15 comments:
Just another example of why wise educated voters always vote for GOP candidate.
Stupid is as stupid does, right?
You get the government you deserve.
They sure are some honorable folk.
The problem is that one set of idiots were mostly replaced by another set of idiots, so the board is still ran by idiots.
After all the discussion, I think these fools still don't know the meaning of "watershed." They want to when the lumber will arrive to build the water shed.
"educated voters always vote for GOP candidate"
Please provide a link to back this up. All the data I've seen says the opposite.
A lie repeated often enough does not, in fact, become truth. A lie remains a lie, no matter how many times one says it. It just makes for a serial liar.
The problem is (also) that you would have to be an idiot to want that job.
Why would an honorable citizen subject themselves to that sort of torture?
So the cycle continues until Jackson is gentrified.
Which I probably won't live to see.
"The problem is (also) that you would have to be an idiot to want that job."
Whatever else you might ought to be, for all or most elected representative positions, you _must_ be is a resident of the defined area you represent. As with many things, some areas at least have more and better options. One potential issue is the candidates are from the same pool of citizens as the voters and you've got to remember that majority of those who run or vote in Jackson and Hinds are just simple cityfolk. These are people of free the land. The common clay of the new Jackson. You know, dazzling urbanites.
And you thought I was going to say "morons." Nope. That was back in 1974.
Serious Question, whats the deal with the plexi glass parititions? Still up from covid?
The ways of business and contracts have been in place for hundreds of years, their fundamentals known to most.
There is, though, a subset among us who never have and never will grasp these ways, who will perpetually cling to their warped version of equity and justice, which is a cover for “just give us what we want and do it this instant.”
Well, DAMN! They've taken-down the Christmas shrubbery. I loved the coverage of meetings in that space, where the speakers looked like they were hiding in the bushes, peering in through a window (that anti-'Rona plexiglas shield).
1232: source are the democrats that think they are smarterthan the gop voters, If I had to guess, that’s where you fall, right?
@3:23, that ain’t plexi glass. It’s bullet proof glass so Archie wouldn’t shoot the damn place up after he whooped up on ol Calhoun. Ain’t no wonder he didn’t buss a cap up in there .
What if you had fallen asleep in a council meeting 45 years ago and woke up in this one, yesterday?
What would your first three thoughts be? WTF does not count.
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