Loading ...THERE HE GOES AGAIN
As much as I like Mayor Bart Peterson personally, his act is starting to wear a little thin. An ordinance has been introduced to eliminate take home cars for non-public safety city county employees. It was sponsored by several city-county Councilors. I have never understood why the ordinance was necessary because most of the departments that have take-home cars are under the Mayor’s control.
However when asked by my brothers in the press, the Mayor responded, that a council backed ordinance would be easier to get that done. Because the city, up until two years ago, had no control over other office budgets and comptroller Bob Clifford says they have a hard enough time keeping track of what they have now.
The Mayor could have easily issued an executive order and clamped down on the practice. According to a list of employees who had take home cars, most were in public works, metropolitan development and parks and recreations. All those offices are under the direct control of the Mayor. And even he can use his influence with the sheriff to ask him to scale back on take-home cars for non-essential employees. And the last I checked the Mayor still runs the fire department so an executive order would work there also.
If this city can’t keep track of a few cars, it really makes me wonder what else they can’t keep track of? I’ll bet your share of Monday’s 65-percent tax increase it involves more of your hard-earned money. Like I said, I personally like the Mayor, but this is getting real old, real quick.
September 30th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
This is not about liking or disliking our Mayor. It is about holding him accountable for the leadership this city must have. He has demonstrated that he is incompetent. This is not about democrat or republican. It is about LEADERSHIP, or in this case, the complete lack of it. Why people are we willing to accept this? Is it that there are too many who stand to gain or lose in this “old boy network”?
September 30th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
When the council says NO to the mayor he can throw up his hands and say, “Look, I’m trying but they tie my hands”. If he were to just come out and mandate it he would look like the bad guy. Leadership takes courage, and courage is something Mayor McCheese grossly lacks.
September 30th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Speaking of leadership…The mayor said he is embarrassed because of the sexual harassment at IFD. If this true, why did he not taken action when Greeson made that bull dyke comment??
The mayor needs to take the ‘bull by the horns’ (no pun intended) and make an example out of Greeson.
How embarrassed are you, Mayor? The voters are waiting.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
That alleged remark by Greeson was solely witnessed by some strange person who apparently lives in a post office box in Beech Grove. Most unusual…
September 30th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Wilson, fair enough on your comment. However, where has the Mayor been on so many of the other questionable activities surrounding members of the CC?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Hey - it’s the election silly season! Do you seriously expect the Mayor go around beating up on Democrats? Give IndyU and other GOP blogs some credit — they’ve got 40 days (or so) left for sliming and slandering …
September 30th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Wilson, I was hoping that you had some degree of integrity. Your response post says all I need to know about you. Over and out.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Abdul,
Didn’t Bart tell us at the tax meeting this evening he had to go to an interfaith meeting?
Why was he at Colts halftime with the very nice 110 year old lady. Why couldn’t he even tell the truth?
Bart has some explaining to do.
I think meeting thid elderly lady is important, but why didn’t he just say he had a prior commitment?
October 1st, 2007 at 8:45 am
It is October 1 and time to celebrate our 65% NEW TAX INCREASE going in to effect today. BOHICA
October 1st, 2007 at 9:30 am
Leadership, that is what is lacking. Bart wants to deflect responsibility for his bad acts by blaming “an ordinance.” Well, here’s the truth: if he had an ounce of leadership, he would just make an order.
Now, if you want to get to the waste, how about the secretarial staff at the sheriff’s dept with take-home cars?
October 1st, 2007 at 11:37 am
The solution is simple for Hizonner. There should be no take home cars for anyone if the car is not driven as a part of you regular job each day. If it shuttles you to and from work - that does not count. You need to be in it all day to get one and not have a desk.
Let see the Mayor show some leadership and direction.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
The Mayor seems to be tying this to either getting a take home car, or using your own for city busines. Whatever happened to the car pool?
Drive own car to work, pick up city vehicle at city carpool lot, drive during work hours in city vehicle, drop city vehicle off at end of workday at city carpool lot, take own car home.
The way it’s been going, make old Market Square site into city carpool lot.
Mayor and posse of Deputies not really all that bright, I’m thinking. Difficulty in thinking their way out of a wet paper bag. Typical.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:26 pm
varangianguard,
I agree. Why is this even being debated? And how did we get to this point in the first place?
Everyone drive YOUR own car to work, do your job, drive YOUR car home. Do these “servants” understand that’s how it works in the real world? Why is that so difficult to digest?
I shutter to think about how many trips to Target, the movies, grandmas and strip clubs we’ve all financed. Ugggg!
October 1st, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Without a city car, how will Monroe Gray be able to coincidentally show up to the next pea shake raid. You know, because Fire Department liasons are often privy to raids on pea shake houses that they have absolutely nothing at all no way nothing at all to do with.
Wilson, I realize that being on the take with Center Township is a good gig for you. But if you cared a lick about the city of Indianapolis, you’d stop carrying water for such an unbelievably corrupt and failed administration.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
As Zwingli knows well, I receive no renumeration whatsoever from Center Township. Zwingli acts so dopey — is Zwingli on the take from narcotics dealers?