Comments on: The coming week in City government

By: Taxed Out

Taxed Out — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:10:24 +0000

Will check to see what Wiggins said about TAKING the soccer field money and GIVING it to build clay tennis courts.

Don Caton may be the old city attorney and tennis buff, but so what? Once again the council did not keep their commitment to spend the LOST money as allocated. No need to wonder why the public does not trust you.

In minutes the money was given to the rich for their latest greatest idea for high maintenance clay courts.

By: Park somewhere else

Park somewhere else — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:25:28 +0000

http://ricksblog.biz/?p=5898&cpage=1#comment-246392

Funny that the very liberal rick bloggers that complain about other religious issues are rallying around this so called priest because he serves food to the homeless.

Just wondering how we let the good Monk reserve the park at his whim, for his homeless non-resident, non taxpaying clients forever, while requiring the rest of the citizenry paying taxes to maintain the park —to reserve the space, pay for permits and clean up the park after the event. Once the trash is cleaned up someone is paying for employees to empty the garbage cans and it’s not the Monk’s clients.

What about the required liability insurance to protect the City? Believe it or not if folks fall at an event on public property, they sometimes sue the owner of the property-us for medical payments and even disability from the injury.

It’s tough out there.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:28:28 +0000

Eh… I can kind of see the argument that they should have to go through the same permit process as any other organization that holds regularly scheduled events there. But then, a picnic isn’t quite the same as a festival with booths, crowd control, etc. It’s hard to believe that a similarly sized group from, say, St. Michael’s would be given any trouble if they walked down every Sunday after mass for a picnic. That would be an easy way to see if the rule is being applied equally, or if it’s targeting Father Nathan’s group due to the “undesirable” homeless contingent.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:06:51 +0000

prohibiting use of the park for “recurring events.”

Key word is recurring events. Sorry Reverend, this means you and your weekly events too.

RevMonk can schedule an event, purchase liability insurance, purchase a
special events permit and clean up the park or forfeit a deposit
just like everyone else that wants to “use” the
park for their event.