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How About Them
Royals!
The Royals are rolling and they are coming home! Wednesday night should be cause to celebrate. Just you watch!!!
The Royals are rolling and they are coming home! Wednesday night should be cause to celebrate. Just you watch!!!
Anyone who
does not believe baseball cannot be exciting has not been watching the American
League Baseball Championship Series.
Two teams from
Texas. One of them, the Texas Rangers taking on the pick of the eventual winner
by most baseball writers, the Toronto Blue Jays, has shown Toronto may have to
wait another year.
Last Friday afternoon, the Rangers jumped to a two game edge over the Blue Jays. In a best of five series, headed to play in the
Rangers' home field, that is close to a death sentence for the Blue Jays to come
back.
More
important, our hometown favorite, the Kansas City Royals, have shown the world
they still know how to win when it is needed. National television
commentators predicted the Royals were ready for the “once was” category, when
Kansas City turned in a lackluster performance against the Houston Astros in
the first of their best of five series on the road to the American League
Championship.
True, the Royals did not look their best in the first game, but on Friday
afternoon, the Royals came back roaring in a come-from-behind victory in which they
bested the Astros by a score of 5 to 4.
If you have
not been watching these two evenly matched teams battle to move to the American League Championship, you are missing a treat.
Sunday’s game should
be a classic. Houston’s ace, Dallas Keuchel, will be be facing Kansas City’s
Edinson Volquez.
The two team
match up pretty evenly in offense and defense. The difference is in the
pitching. Most give Houston an edge with a superior starting rotation.
But the
Royals definitely have one of the best bullpens, if not the best bullpen, in both the National and American Leagues. Even
with the loss of their ace reliever, Greg Holland, the Royal's pen still impresses.
Friday
afternoon, the Royals proved you can win “must win” games without superstars throwing the opening pitch to the game.
Either team
can win this game. But I believe the Royal’s experience will prove to be the
difference in Sunday’s matchup.
Just You
Watch!!!
The Paul Livius Report
The Paul Livius Report
Raytown Board of Aldermen Meeting – October
6, 2015
Chief Jim Lynch presented REAP a
check in the amount of $9,600 which are the proceeds from the annual golf
tournament.
Mayor McDonough said one in eight American women are
diagnosed with breast cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related
deaths among women in the United States. As we observe National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, we salute the brave Americans who are fighting this disease,
including their families. Early
detection can be an extremely effective tool, and timely screening mammograms
could prevent 15 to 30 percent of all deaths from breast cancer in women over
age 40. Every day, health professionals are improving programs that address the
issues women encounter in obtaining appropriate and timely treatment. Our nation
has made significant progress in the fight against breast cancer and we
remain firm in our commitment to do more. Ninety-eight percent of all breast
cancer patients survive when the disease is detected early and there are over 3
million breast cancer survivors in the United States. He then proclaimed October to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Mayor
McDonough said change is constant and affects all cities, towns, suburbs,
counties, boroughs, townships, rural areas, and other places. Community planning can help manage this change in a way that
provides better choices for how people work and live. Community planning provides an opportunity
for all residents to be meaningfully involved in making choices that determine
the future of their community. The full
benefits of planning requires public officials and citizens who understand,
support, and demand excellence in planning and plan implementation. The month of October is designated as National Community Planning
Month throughout the United States of America and its territories. The City of Raytown endorses National
Community Planning Month as an opportunity to highlight the contributions sound
planning and plan implementation make to the quality of the Raytown
community. The celebration of National
Community Planning Month gives us the opportunity to publicly recognize the participation
and dedication of the members of the Raytown Planning & Zoning Commission,
Board of Zoning Adjustment and other citizen planners who have contributed
their time and expertise to the improvement of the City of Raytown. We recognize the many valuable contributions
made by professional community planners of the City of Raytown and extend our
heartfelt thanks for the continued commitment to public service by these
professionals. We recognize October
2015, as Community Planning Month in
the City of Raytown in conjunction with the celebration of National Community
Planning Month.
Steve Mock thanked Mayor McDonough
and Chief Lynch for nominating him for the Jackson County Combat Advocate
Award. He said he was honored to receive it and said his daughter gave a
wonderful acceptance speech.
The Board passed a resolution approving the budget for fiscal year 2015-2016. To review the budget, please go to Raytown City Budget
starting on page 16.
The Board passed a resolution approving the acceptance of a Missouri Department of Transportation Traffic and Highway safety hazardous moving grant in the amount of $6,750. The City intends to use these reimbursement funds to decrease hazardous driving related crashes. The grant allows for overtime enforcement and to send one person to the annual LETSAC conference. The City is not required to match funds for this grant.
The Board passed a resolution approving the acceptance of a Missouri Department of Transportation Traffic and Highway safety hazardous moving grant in the amount of $6,750. The City intends to use these reimbursement funds to decrease hazardous driving related crashes. The grant allows for overtime enforcement and to send one person to the annual LETSAC conference. The City is not required to match funds for this grant.
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17 comments:
Them be good, Thank God for the Royals to take our minds off the problems that Jim Aziere has.
Jim Aziere has so many problems doesnt he. What an embarrassment of a city councilman.
The problem, especially in Ward 2, is that in city elections very few people get off their duffs to vote. Aldermen are elected by a majority of a small percentage of the people! The same holds true for sales tax issues, bond issues, and the school board.
Andy Whiteman
Poor old Jim Aziere is whinning again about not getting his way on the Board of Aldermen. Well grow up Jim, sometimes you win and sometimes you loose. In case you haven't noticed the voters voted for CHANGE in last April's elections and it appears they are getting some. (Not fast enough in my opinion) Jim has it all wrong ,as usual, It's the Board that sets the course and the department heads are to carry out their direction. If it weren't supposed to be this way we wouldn't need elected officials like you. Think about it, Jim.
I understand that the City has hired a new Public Works Director. I have Googled her name, but have yet to see what background she may have to qualify her for a department head position.
When the City hires people who have no track record and have not led or managed anything it is in some ways insulting to the citizens who depend on Public Works for roads, storm water and other public utilities. This is one of the many reasons why the city's infrastructure is failing.
Tell us who she is. Maybe someone that is good at data mining can find out more.
This is what I found.
Former MoDot engineer
Has engineering degree
Looks very capable
Thx u 2:06pm . Engineers go thru so much education. I wonder if the degree is in structural or mechanical engineering.
Will Walmart leave the city holding the bag on the TIF?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/inside-the-ticker/wal-mart-stock-plunges-as-company-forecasts-lower-earnings/ar-AAfrBPb?li=BBgzzfc
Andy Whiteman
If she worked for MoDot, it would be civil engineering. However, I have not found anything about her, or her name. Anyone know her name?
No further speculation gossip about Walmart or bashing for Aziere here, but I sure was enlightened by the 15 plus pages of boilerplate crafted by the state and city to enable a $6500 "grant" to the city for what looks like overtime pay for police to conduct traffic stops near certain intersections. Not sure because the actual use is to be disclosed in a supplemental document to follow!!
Makes me wonder how many high paid hours went into dreaming this up, writing the first draft, getting it rewritten and approved , submitting it for consideration by the city of Raytown, rewriting it again due to comments by the Raytown staff, and on and on
All for a $6500 "grant"???
And now it's approved, it will need to be tracked and invoiced according to the terms of the contract and the oversight by the state and city to get all the i's dotted and the t's crossed.
More money down the rat hole of the bureaucracy. This contract for a $6500 "grant" is, to me, a fine example of government waste in action.
Sorry folks, just needed to rant a bit this morning.
BTW... I could be all wrong, I'm just speculating.
Anyway, GO ROYALS!!!
I wonder what our new Public Works Director's take on bike paths is? Somehow, I think, the "Save Our Turn Lane" movement has derailed the city's plan to redo Blue Ridge Blvd.
I was at City Hall a few days back and stopped by the public works desk and they rather sheepishly admitted that the engineered, planned and budgeted project had somehow been put on hold.
I don't have a dog in the fight either way (turn lane/bike paths), but it bothers me that people acting off record, behind the scenes, are able to exert such influence on the workings of our city.
BTW.... could be all wrong about this. Just what it looks like to me.
Have a nice day fellow Raytowners
How Wal-Mart's business model is being smashed to pieces:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-wal-marts-business-model-is-being-smashed-to-pieces/ar-AAfw9j1?li=AA4Zjn
I hope Wal Mart lasts long enough to, pay off the TIF.
Andy Whiteman
Raytown Newbie
it aint about the money, its about doing things to save lives. In watching the meeting they explained it was a reimbursement grant to put out personnel on extra details for DUI enforcement and other hazardous moving patrols
if you consider my family's lifes not worth the time to prepare the paper work, then you obviously have never seen the carnage on today's roadways or lost someone to a drunk or distracted driver. Think before you speak.
To 7:35 pm
Well said!!! Behind you 100 %
Dear Anonymous 7:35
I am sorry I did not make myself clear. I am not against DUI enforcement or getting people to drive attentively by increased traffic enforcement. However, the language of the grant looks like the overtime will be for speed control most likely.
What I am against is the huge amount of overhead (cost) it takes to spend a lousy $6000 on the effort. That is the waste I am referring to.
Also, for your information..... my daughter-in-law was smashed into by a young woman running a red light just two weeks ago. She suffered a broken collarbone and many other bumps and bruises. Their nearly paid for car was badly damaged and did not quite meet the level to be totaled so she and my son will suffer further through the loss of value due to the collision.
The young woman was texting as she ran the red light!!! Guess what? It is not against the law in Missouri to text while driving (if you are over 21). This is something I would like to see corrected.... IT SHOULD ABSOLUTELY BE ILLEGAL TO TEXT AND DRIVE!!!
BTW.... as for DUI enforcement.. I see from the information in the grant contract, Raytown did not conduct one sobriety checkpoint last year.
One last thing. I actually do think before I speak.
Have a nice day. AND Go Royals!!
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