tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post6748949016585082478..comments2024-03-28T23:48:08.527-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Jackson cuts Arts Council funding to zero. Kingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-52785461296646560312016-09-21T10:35:39.739-05:002016-09-21T10:35:39.739-05:00What was 'explosive' or too hot for tender...What was 'explosive' or too hot for tender ears about the post asking the race and relationship of the employees to current or past city leaders? I suspect it's more of the 'Harvey Johnson Employment Office' paradigm, just upgraded a bit. <br /><br />$55,000 a year to lounge around in an 'Art From Zimbabwe' venue?Too Loose To Treknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-37509718027528319272016-09-21T09:57:46.053-05:002016-09-21T09:57:46.053-05:00Send the animals caged up in the Jackson zoo to an...Send the animals caged up in the Jackson zoo to another city. Not even animals should be forced to stay in Jackson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-78963217376216674872016-09-20T20:31:00.771-05:002016-09-20T20:31:00.771-05:00Get the damn parking meters fixed. The city is lo...Get the damn parking meters fixed. The city is losing $$$$ everyday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-70073852232052223362016-09-20T13:09:37.551-05:002016-09-20T13:09:37.551-05:00So stop the whining and start the fundraising. We ...So stop the whining and start the fundraising. We have an abundance of artists here. We have Jeff Good and Donner Kay. Stop talking and start doing! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-39475549665172201042016-09-20T10:39:08.814-05:002016-09-20T10:39:08.814-05:001:04am, please go back to sleep for another 25 yea...1:04am, please go back to sleep for another 25 years.PittPanthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-68054144028899119992016-09-20T09:51:18.817-05:002016-09-20T09:51:18.817-05:00This doesn't surprise me and more funding cuts...This doesn't surprise me and more funding cuts will be forthcoming. The City's day of reckoning is here and it's due to years of an Amos and Andy approach in managing City business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-65188641459354648822016-09-20T09:48:53.093-05:002016-09-20T09:48:53.093-05:008:45 - you are on to something practical, that mak...8:45 - you are on to something practical, that makes complete sense for the future ! Sell the animals and turn the Zoo into a safe place for all the areas homeless!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-32862594086091507022016-09-20T09:36:52.443-05:002016-09-20T09:36:52.443-05:001:05
Bless your heart, I know you're trying. ...1:05<br /><br />Bless your heart, I know you're trying. That slab was in front of the federal building, and was part of that project. It has nothing to do with the JAC.<br /><br />There have to be cuts in Jackson's budget, but let's keep to arguments based on facts, not wild conjecture.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-25059521909640691752016-09-20T09:07:32.901-05:002016-09-20T09:07:32.901-05:00If cutting off GJAC funding spares more city emplo...If cutting off GJAC funding spares more city employees from losing their jobs I have no doubt, ZERO, that if asked Jackson's voting majority will endorse the decision to gut GJAC. <br /><br />The surprise and feigned concerns about GJAC by members of the City Council are all for show. Period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-67155610040835641142016-09-20T08:25:00.983-05:002016-09-20T08:25:00.983-05:00I predicted it many years ago. First the Zoo, the...I predicted it many years ago. First the Zoo, then the Arts, next will be city employees (gone, not furloughed), then city services like water, sewer (already beginning to show declining service). Hinds County will attempt to pick up the slack, but will be unable to, because of the continued waste at the top of the chain. Past that, who knows....? <br />I say, build a wall around it, throw in a few more weapons, and let them have at it. When all the fighting and destruction is over, move back in and re-construct what was once, a great city.exjxnreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17429981881769162407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-38301301712293248592016-09-20T01:04:33.910-05:002016-09-20T01:04:33.910-05:00There's an ugly grey office building, Downtown...There's an ugly grey office building, Downtown. There are several of those, I know, but this one is near where the "fashionable" hardware store used to be - the one where our architects sent us, to look at the hotsy-totsy kinds of hinges and knobs. This ugly, grey office building had a (short-lived) branch of the Courthouse Gym (done-up in the most brain-deadening grey: fifteen minutes in there, and you felt suicidal, which is probably why nobody went in there twice). <br /><br />Anyway, outside the ugly grey office building, there was/is a "sculpture" - an obelisk or a dolomite or a slab (it's been a quarter-century since I've been down there) sticking out of the pavement. There was a little window in the slab/dolomite/shaft, and you were supposed to look in and read a literary quote, and look at some gloves and some other stuff (all painted grey or silver). If the grey gym in the grey building hadn't already made you suicidal, this grey "sculpture" would probably finish you off. <br /><br />Is that an example of the Jackson Arts Council's work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-74769449850130874042016-09-19T22:28:27.208-05:002016-09-19T22:28:27.208-05:00It took decades of decisions by many people for Ja...It took decades of decisions by many people for Jackson to get into the shape it is in. <br />To me, two types of decisions stand out as the best examples of what not to do:<br />#1 If you say you cannot afford to pay your water bill we will keep giving you water for free. Free to you that is. Paid for by the people who do pay their bills or in some cases paid for by some unborn children who will one day live in Jackson.<br />#2 The residents of Jackson are x% black folks. We, the city leaders, believe that that same x% should be the makeup of every occupation: contractors, attorneys, electricians, truck drivers, eye surgeons, etc. And if an occupation is not x% black folks it MUST be due to discrimination. (Unless black folks are more than x% of an occupation. In which case we pretend that is not happening). Therefore we are willing to pay more for goods and services, that is spend more of the tax payer's money, to try to force the racial mix of the people we do business with into this imaginary world where everyone is the same as everyone else. (Do not ask if we waste our own private funds in this manner. We may be dumb, but we ain't stupid.) <br />Those two ideas, which are actually one idea - "Don't treat everyone the same" are at the root of the downfall of Jackson. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-20525141185016099372016-09-19T21:06:42.752-05:002016-09-19T21:06:42.752-05:00No Arts Council?!!?!? Who the hell is going to liv...No Arts Council?!!?!? Who the hell is going to live in the Art lofts?!?!?Pappy O'Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-38370394681219984042016-09-19T21:03:48.447-05:002016-09-19T21:03:48.447-05:007:37
Is that why you frequent it?7:37<br /><br />Is that why you frequent it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-27804097098588372442016-09-19T20:45:33.018-05:002016-09-19T20:45:33.018-05:00Sell the zoo animals to other zoos and turn the zo...Sell the zoo animals to other zoos and turn the zoo into a huge homeless shelter !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-80013244890993271662016-09-19T19:37:40.726-05:002016-09-19T19:37:40.726-05:00Good God this website sucks. Good God this website sucks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-32757124483335782802016-09-19T18:33:48.375-05:002016-09-19T18:33:48.375-05:003:16 I'll wager you're too dumb to educate...3:16 I'll wager you're too dumb to educate, but I'll try. My grandmother, who dropped out of 8th grade in 1929 to help support the family when the Depression hit, was fond of noting a simple truth: "Sorry, we can't afford it".<br /><br />She left over a million $ when she died at age 90. Spending money WISELY pays off. She was able to support several charities in her later years, and taught us grandchildren about giving back once you've become established.<br /><br />The IBC does bring a lot of money and prestige into the state, though. That is a shame. Gotta pay for the Mayor's stippers first I suppose :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-27661785080543227112016-09-19T18:14:24.492-05:002016-09-19T18:14:24.492-05:005:36. Hope so. Let the state take it over and move...5:36. Hope so. Let the state take it over and move it to LeFleur Park. Make it a STATE ZOO and make it a part of the museum complex. The traffic would increase 10 fold. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-45263216175698672542016-09-19T17:36:11.534-05:002016-09-19T17:36:11.534-05:00The Zoo will be next.The Zoo will be next.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-58141597252944632202016-09-19T16:39:30.802-05:002016-09-19T16:39:30.802-05:00A staff of 5 and 3 of them are 'Directors'...A staff of 5 and 3 of them are 'Directors'. LOL LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-54988007529244012632016-09-19T15:56:06.550-05:002016-09-19T15:56:06.550-05:00Oh no! How will we ever pay to have the signal box...Oh no! How will we ever pay to have the signal boxes at each and every traffic light painted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-58635455897217004242016-09-19T15:47:08.845-05:002016-09-19T15:47:08.845-05:00Thanks for weighing in from the GJAC at 3:16!Thanks for weighing in from the GJAC at 3:16!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-19652294527681904912016-09-19T15:40:38.078-05:002016-09-19T15:40:38.078-05:00"Go to Rainbow for deodorant?"
September..."Go to Rainbow for deodorant?"<br />September 19, 2016 at 2:34 PM<br /><br />Yes. I used to go, just for the Aloe-based, which works exceedingly well. But now, they've got two really good kinds. The spices in the bulk section are fresher and cheaper than at the big box groceries. And I like the rolled grains in the bulk bins, since you can just throw them into whatever you're cooking, without any effort. But I go in there, for the deodorant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-57992091881063326362016-09-19T15:34:16.793-05:002016-09-19T15:34:16.793-05:00Yay!!!Yay!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-72015994078581726372016-09-19T15:20:36.416-05:002016-09-19T15:20:36.416-05:00First read of the 990 from 2013 for GJAC, lists to...First read of the 990 from 2013 for GJAC, lists total revenue of 441,557 (329,200 of that were 'government grants.' Hope that wasn't all City of Jackson). Total of Salaries, other compensation, and employee benefits were 210,821. Total expenses were 404,244. So payroll was 52 cents on every dollar spent. Director is getting 55k plus other stuff. Let's call it 55k. So, 26 cents on every dollar spent is just for the Director.<br /><br />I don't know enough of the inside baseball to interpret the rest of the expenses as to which are overhead and which are the money given to promoting the 'arts.' I'll be conservative and say all other overhead is 8 cents on the dollar just for a round number.<br /><br />We have $100 to give to promote the arts, $74.50 were stolen at gun point from the taxpayers. So, we pay someone $26 to supervise a handful of others making a combined $26 to spend another $8 to give away the remaining $40(and let's be honest, it's probably less than that they're giving away)?<br /><br />Yep. Nothing left to cut.<br /><br /><br /><br />Roger Murdocknoreply@blogger.com