tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post6584963306659966282..comments2024-03-27T13:12:00.821-05:00Comments on RAYTOWN REPORT: Short Week . . .Greg Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02133276387013984873noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-61798926667449406262008-08-04T12:21:00.000-05:002008-08-04T12:21:00.000-05:00Anon 10:35AM, Sounds logical but you could be arr...Anon 10:35AM, Sounds logical but you could be arrested for theft, trespass, and vandalism.<BR/><BR/>Would you take this to the point of mowing your neighbor's yard. My yard needs mowing. You can save me the expense and I won't complain as long as you don't disturb my sleep.<BR/><BR/>Andy WhitemanAndy Whitemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663722316994895141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-13507569369252510092008-08-04T10:35:00.000-05:002008-08-04T10:35:00.000-05:00I say if you see a sign that is illegal pull it up...I say if you see a sign that is illegal pull it up and throw it away if the city is to damn lazy to do it then we take things into our ouw hands and do it ourselves. I am tired of it and I will take things in my own hands and not wait on the city!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-47843498637444792712008-08-03T11:45:00.000-05:002008-08-03T11:45:00.000-05:00Anon 8/2 12:58PM, you bring up several good issues...Anon 8/2 12:58PM, you bring up several good issues which may ot may not be the fault of the Raytown Fascist government.<BR/><BR/>As for mowers, mine has been broken since before I moved here. Even if it worked, it is too hot to use it. So I hire a friend to mow. He has other obligations so can only mow when he has time. My weeds get higher than I would like, but at least the are not a code violation.<BR/><BR/>As for both signs and high yards, the city used to claim they would be proactive and reports would be made as city employees drive around town. This is NOT true! I found that if you want a code enforced, YOU have to report it (sometimes several times) to get enforcement. The city refuses to enforce some codes such as election signs on the right of way if they support that issue or person. (My opinion, but I couldn't get enforcement during the school election.) You can report a violation either by phone or via email. I have been waiting almost a month for the City to get the Poor Quality School District to chop the weeds at RHS!) The City also is in violation of the fence height code and owns an attractive nuisance; so you you really expect they will enforce a code unless they want to harrass someone?<BR/><BR/>As for vacant homes, the issue may or may not be caused by the City. Most people cannot afford to move because they are dissatisfied with the city! For me it is the miserable climate and not the fascist government. I am trapped in the State of Misery because I cannot find a house. It costs me so much to move that I am unable to move until I locate a satisfactory house. I can't believe the average person will move just because of city government.<BR/><BR/>Some of the people are gone because they were unable to keep their payments current (not city issues but I think the high Poor Quality School District tax could be a part of it). Remember we are having a mortgage crisis and numerous repos.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, I expect to see more people moving after propert tax bills come out and mortgage payments go sky high due to the tax escrow.<BR/><BR/>Andy WhitemanAndy Whitemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663722316994895141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-68372628692481993162008-08-02T13:45:00.000-05:002008-08-02T13:45:00.000-05:00For those that are concerned about Water District ...For those that are concerned about Water District #2 outrageous rates, I'll pass along another depressing fact. My neighbor was talking to one of their employees while they were working in our neighborhood and he was told that we are going to see another rate increase that took effect on July 1st. What are they doing with our money? Maybe they have too much overhead and should start cutting like the rest of us. Consultants, summer help, expensive trucks, and buildings are not needed to deliver our water to us. Maybe they need some new board members that understand this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-28930484449890700432008-08-02T12:58:00.000-05:002008-08-02T12:58:00.000-05:00In the last two days I have taken a family member ...In the last two days I have taken a family member up to Wal-mart and waited in my car for them to do their shopping. All you have to do is watch the cars to see where they are getting their business and very little is from Raytown. Go see for your self. It's only going to get worse when the new one opens because they will have groceries in it.<BR/><BR/>My neighborhood is not yet the intercity but it is repaidly becoming filled with people who don't care about their property, who drive down the street and throw out their trash, they don't mow their yards because they don't have a mower and if you won't let them use your mower it doesn't get mowed and I could go on and on.<BR/><BR/>While I am writing this I am watching the company who buys ugly houses once again rehab a house they bought last year and the people only moved in to the house in January. They have been working on this house again for more than 2 weeks.<BR/><BR/>It drives me crazy is when I drive down the street and see these "we buy ugly houses" signs along the streets or on the poles. What makes me even craziest is that we have ordinances against those signs being on pole or in the right-of-ways. I cannot understand why this city is not doing something about them and any other signs that should not be there. We sould be citing those companies and fining them. I was not a fan of Curt Wenson but I will say one thing he, Beau Gorman and Dan Estes would go out at lunch and pulled up illegal signs. If we have these ordinances why don't they enforce them?<BR/><BR/>My husband and I cannot move from Raytown at this time. Honestly it make me angery to see what is going on here and to know we don't have a staff in this city that cares as much as we do. I liked it here and never thought I would ever move again but now I wish I could.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-37623563977691081062008-08-02T12:18:00.000-05:002008-08-02T12:18:00.000-05:00To anonymous Aug.2,2008 11:08 a.m. Just give you...To anonymous Aug.2,2008 11:08 a.m. Just give your neighborhood a few more months or a year and it will be a ghetto. Why do you think there are so many empty houses and for sale signs popping up?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-67561962567363585712008-08-02T11:45:00.000-05:002008-08-02T11:45:00.000-05:00When the Cresent Creek talks started, I said it wa...When the Cresent Creek talks started, I said it was miniature houses on miniature lots and I couldn't imagine why anyone would buy there. I certainally won't buy a house on a miniature lot!<BR/><BR/>A good parade route would be a least one complete circle around the Olde Baptist Church, north on the west side of Blue Ridge past RHS, across the missing sidewalk which was filled like a swamp after the last rain which passes a pile of dirt with HIGH WEEDS in vilation of City Code, past City Hall with potholes on 59th, to Crescent Creek described by a previous writer (I have never been there), and returning to at least one more complete circle around the Old Baptist Monstrocity (a multiple code violation.)<BR/><BR/>Seriously has anyone noticed the construction at RHS? The sidewalk is dug up creating an unsafe condition waterfilled after the last rain. There is a pile of dirt with high weeds growing out of it. I reported it before the last BOA meeting and it was still that way Wednesday when I bought gas across the street. Not only is it a public nuisance but Blue Ridge is a highly travelled PUBLIC street! Does this create a good impression of Raytown to anyone who may consider opening a business or moving here?<BR/><BR/>Behind the Old Baprist Church across Raytown Rd. is a vacant lot with one small building. There have been truck trailers parked there for a number of years. School bussed used to be parked there and some of them used electricity from the building for their engine warmers. These trailers make the area look like a combination freight yard/junk yard. Isn't this in violation? <BR/><BR/>We don't know that the Truesdale's will move, but if they decide to move, I wish them luck in selling or renting as the case may be.<BR/><BR/>Andy WhitemanAndy Whitemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663722316994895141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-72681002826251877302008-08-02T11:08:00.000-05:002008-08-02T11:08:00.000-05:00My neighborhood is not a ghetto.My neighborhood is not a ghetto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-74640672053754347492008-08-02T10:28:00.000-05:002008-08-02T10:28:00.000-05:00Save yourself some money! The Star is now offering...Save yourself some money! The Star is now offering its pdrinted paper Wed-Sun and it's E-Star electronic paper the other days for $1.25 a week. That's about a fourth of normal subscription price. If the Star won't give you that rate, simply stop your subscription and the cheaper rate will be offered soon. The Raytown Post and The Raytown Tribune have little circulation and nothing of value content wise. The Star ain't much either. For $19 in the Tribune you can get a garage sale ad that's so small it can barely be read. Don't know what Post rates are but there is so little advertising in it that obviously people know it's not worth reading, has no circulation and other problems. Sad state when this blog is the closest thing to real news discussion locally.<BR/><BR/>By the way there will likely be one less Crescent Creek resident filled since the Truesdales will no doubt be moving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-35657513083102501732008-08-02T09:03:00.000-05:002008-08-02T09:03:00.000-05:00Has anyone driven by Crescent Creek lately? This ...Has anyone driven by Crescent Creek lately? This looks like a ghost town. I wonder if more than 5 of these houses are occupied? Looks pretty sad, weeds growing everywhere, empty lots, unfinished streets. Another disgrace for our city. This would be a good place for the chamber to take their parade route. Let's really show off some of this new development to our out of town neighbors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-90983809284705196002008-08-02T06:23:00.000-05:002008-08-02T06:23:00.000-05:00The electoral college gives our country some balan...The electoral college gives our country some balance. If you did not have it in place you might was well ignore every vote from a state that is mostly rural.<BR/><BR/>I do not want New York and California calling the shots for our nation simply because they have the most people living in them. <BR/><BR/>The people there have no sense of the needs and hopes of others living in the mountain states, the great plains, the south and southwest, or the high deserts in the north. <BR/><BR/>The real balance comes from the United States Senate -- where each state has an equal voice in how the nation is governed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-81091409204659454432008-08-02T00:04:00.000-05:002008-08-02T00:04:00.000-05:00The open ditches and the way the city maintains th...The open ditches and the way the city maintains the streets sure reminds me of Mexico. Actually I have seen the streets in Mexico in better condition than in Raytown. <BR/><BR/>Andy WhitemanAndy Whitemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13663722316994895141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-8904694729732851402008-08-01T21:37:00.000-05:002008-08-01T21:37:00.000-05:00"Raytown is rapidly becoming the inner city" ? It ..."Raytown is rapidly becoming the inner city" ? It is the inner city. It is a ghetto! Why do you think that a lot of people are selling and getting out? When KCMSD lost their accreditation a few years ago, I noticed a lot of people moving in to my neighborhood. Cant blame then for wanting to get their kids into good schools. It is starting to look like little mexico, and a ghetto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-91129154941517126802008-08-01T16:33:00.000-05:002008-08-01T16:33:00.000-05:00Good luck and God bless Tim Truesdale and his fami...Good luck and God bless Tim Truesdale and his family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-33520474367203346442008-08-01T13:13:00.000-05:002008-08-01T13:13:00.000-05:00Tim Truesdale and his wife are extremely nice peop...Tim Truesdale and his wife are extremely nice people. True, he may not have been good at his job but that has to do more with professional bureaucrats becoming entrenched at their highest level of incompetency. The politicians (BOA and mayor) can share in that for not providing direction and goals and for not acting sooner.<BR/>Maybe Mayor Bower can join his confederate Republican Gov. Arnold Schwartznagger and lay off government workers and cut the remaining ones' salaries to minimum wage. Tough times require tough decisions. Why bankrupt a state or even Raytown when there is a solution? Often we find that the ones cut weren't needed in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-8720186687589110182008-08-01T12:09:00.000-05:002008-08-01T12:09:00.000-05:00Ding Dong Truesdale's gone! Where and when is the...Ding Dong Truesdale's gone! Where and when is the party?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-68133783976087563002008-08-01T08:55:00.000-05:002008-08-01T08:55:00.000-05:00Another thing when we go out to hire Truesdale's r...Another thing when we go out to hire Truesdale's replacement. Make him or her live in the city limits, not in Gladstone, Raymore or Lee's summit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-61610234908907876252008-08-01T08:29:00.000-05:002008-08-01T08:29:00.000-05:00Glad to see Truesdale is going but the damage is a...Glad to see Truesdale is going but the damage is already done. Let's just pray the city council makes some wise decisions is replacing him. Not another Miller or Wenson. Council let's get the right man for the job someone who really wants to see Raytown make a come back and not with more smoke shops and check cashing business. Let's be friendly to small business and build on that. Now is the time for the mayor and council to make good for ALL tne stupid things they have done in the past. Let's see if you hve the balls to do it!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-54582392870579693172008-08-01T08:26:00.000-05:002008-08-01T08:26:00.000-05:00Well I see where the Silly Chamber of Commerce is ...Well I see where the Silly Chamber of Commerce is going to put on it's parade to nowhere again this year. What a bunch of boobs. All they want is you money for an entry fee. It's not about community pride, if it was they wouldn't be taking you through Raytown's slummy downtown. What an embarrassment to invite people to view this disgraceful mess. I really expected more from Vicki Turnbow. Sign me, DISAPPOINTED AGAINAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-88913361166272349282008-08-01T08:21:00.000-05:002008-08-01T08:21:00.000-05:00Raytown is rapidly becoming the "new inner-city" w...Raytown is rapidly becoming the "new inner-city" with the problems violent crimes bring, such as burglary, robbery, shootings and the like. I only hope that our police department is gearing up for the opening of a crime ridden Walmart super-center. If you watch the paper you can see how many problems they have at the current one and the new one at the old Blue Ridge Mall location. I can only imagine what is going to happen when we bring this element deeper into our city. No one is going to be safe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-57661075390452140872008-08-01T08:04:00.000-05:002008-08-01T08:04:00.000-05:00Now if the city will hire an economic director who...Now if the city will hire an economic director who's job is to promote and find new businesses for Raytown, Raytown might have a chance.<BR/>The next step for the future of Raytown is the next election. We need to find good people that will actually work for the people and not against them. People that care for the town more than they care how they look and sound on channel 7. Most of all people with common sense that won't give away the farm to please a huge corporation. People that will just say no to tax income giveaways so the streets and services<BR/>the people vote in will, in fact be done.<BR/>I believe this is the first step towards bringing Raytown back to the reason we are all here in the first place. <BR/>Now, if the town will relax some of it's asinine codes, not the safety codes for service like sewer, gas, water and electrical, but others that make it too cost prohibitive for new businesses to come to town it would help.Pat Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02753840266376084738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-2954626928502853082008-08-01T06:41:00.000-05:002008-08-01T06:41:00.000-05:00Now if the board will just get rid of that worthl...Now if the board will just get rid of that worthless city clerk, we might have a chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-59400974506569132352008-07-31T21:53:00.000-05:002008-07-31T21:53:00.000-05:00Too bad he didn't resign effective immediately!Too bad he didn't resign effective immediately!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-58593000598906866952008-07-31T13:42:00.000-05:002008-07-31T13:42:00.000-05:00Yippee!! That's the best news I've had in a looooo...Yippee!! That's the best news I've had in a loooooong time! Hopefully the city will find someone that really wants to develop the city of Raytown based on the needs of the city and not their own personal agenda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767127531333372490.post-79797238949295442802008-07-31T13:33:00.000-05:002008-07-31T13:33:00.000-05:00Ding Dong the twitt is gone!!!Tim Truesdale has re...Ding Dong the twitt is gone!!!<BR/>Tim Truesdale has resigned last day sometime in September. How will we ever survive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com