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Are they legal to drive on the streets?  Just about everyone has one or another or some of each.  Or are they just kind of left alone unless there is a problem?  I was just curious becuase of the arrest made tonight (dont know specifics yet) of a person driving the golf cart.  Someone from the city or county should make a flyer and post it around the town/county on what is allowed and what isnt.  I hope this doesnt stay another selective law that gets enforced.  ie: town clean yard laws, dilapidated property laws, stop sign laws.

Why is it that towns normally go from dirt to gravel to paved, But Howard it laying down gravel onto of paved roads that are still in Ok condition, if they would just cold patch them everyone in a while.  They call what they are doing Chip and Seal, but anyone of you could have watched youtube videos on how to do it, and done a better job. They are putting way to much gravel on top of not enough tar. 

All i have to say is wait until the first good snow and see what a horrible mess the streets look like.

PS: Cant wait for the city to cover up the brick on wabash with that crap.

This is an extension of my post in "we have a plan"

I will try not to be negative again, but sometimes you have to wonder what the economic developer does other than put on soccer camps, what is done to bring people to the county.  Another negative is the stupid "have your card stamped to win a prize" thing at festivals and fairs, people just run into businesses to get their card stamped and rarely buy anything.  This needs to be rethought, similar to the youth group auctions at the Methodist church, because they were being over worked. 

Howard needs to be cleaned up first, I thought we had a public clean up enforcer.  Yards to need be cleaned up, junk thrown out, cars disposed of that don't run, lawn mower lawn ornaments recycled ( a vintage tractor that people may stop and see and take pictures of their kids on is ok), a 1993 Murray is garbage.   Lawns mowed, weed eated, trees trimmed.  Property owners need to be warned a set number of times, under advice from city atty, then cation taken. Up to and including seizure.  Then auction off, under understanding owner will repurpose it ( community garden, community orchard, park, etc). Abandoned houses need to be seized and demolished, dilapidated houses need to be demolished, as well as school buildings that are falling down, and animal infested.   Ditches need tending to, roads need layer of asphalt, sidewalks throughout town (why do some houses have and some do not).


Main street needs to be restored, maybe vintage covered sidewalks like in front of store with vintage appliances.  The well in the center of town could be restored made into an attraction.  Tracy did an amazing job turning the old cafe into an amazing little shop that people come from all over to see, as well as Sue Bauders soap company.  The soda fountain in Batson's already draws people in.  People passing through on 99, stop at Toots routinely for fudge monkey's, but there is no signage on highway, most don't know those ships are there. Some buildings on main street need to be repurposed like Tracy did and Connie did in the last couple years, and popular did a long time ago.  The old bank building needs to be revamped, the supplies would be supplied as long as the people of the community do the work.  The 2 store front next o the church need to be sold to someone that will remodel them, into a new boutique, maybe a bakery, children's store, pet boutique, something unique.  The city should flex some muscle and make the elk county general store clean up its act, it gets more and more cluttered week after week.  The fire Marshall needs to step in before the whole block goes up in flames.  Museum should release some of its buildings for sale, they are hardly ever open anyways, except the doll museum (a must see) .  Maybe the 2 connected storefronts on Adams, could be an idea.  The owners of the old donut shop and skt building on Randolph should release them at a reasonable price for repurposing. 

Next festivals should be held on main street as in other cities both small and large.  This will bring people into the stores.  The will eat at the local eateries, buy soap, candles, gifts.  No one benefits from it being on the courthouse lawn, it's almost as though the organizers don't want to support to local establishment. Example if it was on main st, like it used to be, people might go into sweet and spicy or popular and eat there instead of at the free will donation BBQ meal or bean feed.  what little kid wouldnt want to watch Lansing change a tire using an floor jack and impact wrench, or watch the pizza guys at popular throw pizzas in the air while waiting for parade, or getting a donut from sweet and spicy, or cone from Batson's on a hot summer morning.  Clearwater wellness center is on tv commercials 25 times a day . 

Show people it's a great place to live and work, businesses will come to town, people will move back here if lots are available ( there is no need for someone to own an entire block in the city limits).

If the town wants to survive and thrive, work needs to be done, hope we can work together and make it happen, then we can help other local towns prosper like 100 years ago.



Festivals need to be advertised, as well as city as a whole.  Paper, Kansas magazines, brochures, tv (like belle plaine tulip festival), I wonder what good elk konnected does, other than set up soccer camps.

Please do not buy girl scout cookies from Sweet and Spicy Restaurant, in Howard KS.  They are selling them to support the Longton chapter of the girl scouts.  and not the local howard girl scouts.  RESELLING of girl scout cookies is prohibited.

PLEASE BUY THEM ONLY FROM LOCAL GIRL SCOUTS AND SUPPORT LOCAL TROOPS

http://www.protecttheflinthills.org/information/misplacedstategovtfaithinwindenergy.pdf

Enel Russia & CIS, a leading investor in the Russian power sector, has said regulated power tariffs are too low and suggested that the Kremlin raises them to incentivize the necessary investment in new plant as dictated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Since market liberalization in 2008, Russia's power plant programme has stalled due to a lack of clarification over the Kremlin's "long-term capacity market" mechanism, which would reward investors for the construction of new power plants.

Prime Minister Putin, who expects 20 GW of new capacity to be installed by 2012, signed a bill last month outlining a capacity market, but analysts say the new mechanism could amount to little more than "a tax and a lottery" and offer no long-term guarantees to investors.
Dominque Fache, general director for Enel Russia & CIS, said the only way for investors to be sure of a return on investment in new plant would be by raising regulated end-user tariffs that are often heavily subsidized.

"It is impossible to get a return on investment given existing electricity prices," said Fache, speaking at the Russia Power conference in Moscow today.

read more:


http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2010/03/enel-demands-russia.html

Im done buying the local paper, why is it death notices and who doing what in moline can get in the paper in a timely manner within a couple days.  But Howard chamber meetings or school board meeting not until after the next meeting, sometimes 5 or 6 weeks later before it hits the paper.

Remember in the planning for the windmills, "they" said there will be 200 workers in town! that will all be spending money.  I was in howard the other day for some groceries, and scratched my head, and wondered if the windmills are in full swing where are these so called 200 workers, Main st looked almost like a sunday only a couple cars, but it was Wednesday.  So I guess my question is if that promise was broken, what other promises may be broken? 

Quote from: Janet Harrington on July 17, 2011, 10:55:52 pm
Survey? When did this survey thing supposedley nappen? This is the first time that I heard about a survey.


Just before they started recieving all those $50 donations from 60 unknown people to start Elk Konnected, they mailed out the survey's to 140 unknown people, .just like the unknow names on all those suggestions on their liist shown at
http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php/topic,11780.0.html 

That's the whole point. No one knows anything at all about Elk Konnected. Except they use people behind closed doors they call followers in the open they call them volunteers. Do you get it now?

Who are the admitted members or the registered members or the owners that steer the steering committee?

why do we have to wait 3-4 weeks for the minutes to be in the paper?  isnt the school board meeting on monday nights and the paper deadline is 5pm tuesday?  (scratching head)

The party about wind and dollars.  Why is it that the meeting for wind and dollars is in Moline.  Last I checked Howard was the county seat.  Is it because fewer people will show up?  Why is Elk DisKonnected in charge of the funds? NOTHING should be done with that money until a public vote is held on individual programs.  Why is no one talking about this on the forums?  Its kind of hush hush.  No one even knows a definite start date to build the wind mills.  So why are "we" talking about spending money "we" dont have? Typical Government

What needs to be done to replace the school board? other than waiting to vote them out, isnt there a way that we can fire them all, and start over with a new election?  I wish the common person that complains would wake up and not vote every politician into office that has money, and has no concept of reality.

Why is it everyone can be scraping the bottom of the barrel to get by, except for government?  The school board tells us they are broke, we must combine 3 schools into 1 because we have no money.  The teachers cant get more than a $500 raise because we got no money. Have to cut back on activities because we got no money. Shorten the week because we got no money.  Then why at the last school board meeting after hearing many complaints from faculty, did the West Elk School board extend Mr. Reese's contract for a year AND give him a $5,000 raise, and give Ms. Young a $3,000, and Mr Moore a raise pending Budget review.  Why dont we elect people to the board that know what the common person deals with day to day.  What is the GAP amount between what the administrators make and what the teachers doing all the work make. 

Why has there been no new news on the windmills in 2 months on here? What is our elk county economic developer doing? Why isnt she updating the little people of elk county on the progress.   How do we offer our services to the windmill contracters, anyone know?

I remember their being like a 2 page spread in the paper a bunch of months ago, about the city was gonna have a Clean Cop, that was going to write tickets for people to clean up their yards, why do i still have to look at crap in peopls yards, like 17 lawnmowers, or 5 broken down, windows busted out of, full of varmints autos  And people want to complain about the growing rat problem.   Why do i have to look at buildings and house that should have been torn down 25 years ago.   if you dont want to take care of your VACANT LOT sell it to someone that will take care of it.  And it shouldnt just be the city limits, it should be everyone in elk county, if your barn fell down 15 years ago its time to clean it up, its just festering animals and bugs.  If your car or truck stopped running 15 years ago, take it to the scrap yard, dont leave it to rust in the middle of your pasture because you think it looks cool.  If you lived in a trailer and now you live in the house next door, get the trailer dragged out of there.   This is 2010 people, not 1910.

What is going on with the bank building, I seen it being roofed when I was out of the house the other day.