Comments on: Mayor Hotline August 7-11

By: REX

REX — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:51:37 +0000

What a mess… When you deal with the public you’re going to get everything. But then, that goes with the job of being Mayor.

It isn’t that the Mayor gets problems to deal with, it’s how well he and his team deal with them. That’s when they begin to earn their money.

It’s when they forget who they are working for that worries me and we’ve seen some of that too.

By: junkyard dog

junkyard dog — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:09:31 +0000

Publishing the hotline IS a terrific public service…and it’s pretty obvious that we are seeing a breakdown of civility in Boise. Trashy properties and trashy behavior; it’s time for Boise to shelve that “anything goes” mentality and starting enforcing the ordinances that protect its citizens from this kind of impact.

I myself am fed up with the grafitti that doesn’t get covered up, fed up with my neighbors that have let their weeds grow waist high, fed up with the junked cars, exposed dumpsters or the lack of ’em, littered streets, illegal parking, noxious weeds, blocked streets & sidewalks, and overoccupied rentals. I’m also tired of calling the police every weekend because yet another neighbor is having a party at 2am that I can hear INSIDE my house with the windows SHUT.
And the city wonders why we don’t like infill?

Personally I think more people should call that hotline. The Mayor and his staff need to hear how the citizens of Boise feel about the lack of enforcement.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:28:23 +0000

Bikeboy- Maybe Team Dave is trying to please more and more people to offset the constitiuents that he pissed off in the first half of his administration.

6,000 from the SE Boise annexation and 10,000 plus from the 10 Commandment issue. Add in another couple of thousand for various other issues and Team Dave has some catchin up to do.

So one spray can or one appeasement at a time, Dave will get it done. I sure appreciate the Guardian for publishing the Hotline. Just another way for all of us native Idahoan’s to get a chuckle.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:33:23 +0000

When I read the Hotline, I feel sorry for people.

I feel sorry for the poor lady who’s car gets damaged by drunken idiots in the Hyde Park area.

I feel sorry for the poor folks who get awakened by punks on loud motorcycles at 3am. (Most likely the same juvenile delinquents who vandalize cars and leave their foul graffiti all over creation.) Who can’t identify with THAT?!!

But I also feel a twinge of sympathy for the mayor and his staff. I s’pose they’re asking for it, though, since they have a hotline. I mean… he gets calls for every person’s every woe! If ACHD doesn’t do their job (or if they DO, obviously, in some cases), Team Dave takes heat. If a light is burned out, Team Dave. Graffiti? Team Dave. If the skeeters are bitin’? Team Dave. IS THERE ANY PROBLEM THAT TEAM DAVE CAN’T SOLVE????