Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Potluck #86
Potluck 86. 86 Potluck. The days are getting noticeably shorter. There's a slight crispness in the air. The new school year is just around the corner. What's on your minds? Yes, yes, I know, the Police Dept. But besides that, though you can comment on that too. What happened with last night's vote on the lighting project? I'm sorry I couldn't make the meeting.
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Call in the state police and close down the PD. This is disgraceful.
That's how it works, you just pick up the phone and call?
All Years MHS Reunion-
October 5, 2013
Noon-Dusk
Williamson Park (The Island stage area)
Register at http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=4elrwznab&oeidk=a07e7x8jdswa96890b4
"That's how it works, you just pick up the phone and call?"
That's a good question. It would likely require our boro council and mayor to admit in public that they lack the ability to govern the town. I'll lay money down that will never happen voluntarily.
We have a great school district with great teachers and students. The benefits of small schools increase our sense of community.
It is a shame we can't get the adults to follow the lead of the school students.
You got that right!
"That's a good question. It would likely require our boro council and mayor to admit in public that they lack the ability to govern the town. I'll lay money down that will never happen voluntarily."
You spelled borough wrong.
What happened at last night's council meeting?
Did that project get voted on?
You ended your second sentence in a preposition. However, I too am interested in how last night's council meeting went.
Saw this too on BucksLocalNews. Is there an election coming up or something? (Yes, it's Nov. 5). Is modernizing the system something she was getting criticized for during the primary election season when her own party didn't endorse her? (Yes). Was Jack Buckman telling people at the Grandview 4th Ward polls during the May 2013 primary to vote for her because she's his boss at the County and they'll get raises if she wins? (Yes again, I'm afraid).
Bucks County Prothonotary introduces electronic filing system for civil documents
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2013
DOYLESTOWN - Bucks County Prothonotary Patricia L. Bachtle on Aug. 14 announced a comprehensive e-filing system to bring efficiencies and convenience to the Bucks County Courthouse.
Bachtle began exploring the e-filing systems in 2009, working with outside contractors and many stakeholders inside the courthouse to determine the best system. During a county business meeting at the Middletown Grange Fair, she garnered the support of the Bucks County Judges and the Board of Bucks County Commissioners. The approval of a $182,300 contract with Paperless Solutions, Inc. of Bensalem will allow the office to move forward with the final testing and deployment of the e-filing system.
"Our goal all along has been to implement a system that worked for our judges, lawyers, and the entire court system, but we also wanted to make sure our e-filing system was the most responsible one for the taxpayers," Bachtle said. "I know this system will make the Prothonotary's office more efficient and save taxpayers money."
Bachtle has a history of bringing new technologies to the Prothonotary office. In recent years she's instituted a pay-per-page program that allows 24-hour access to documents and generates revenue for her office. She also implemented an innovative case management system that saves thousands of dollars a year and helped pave the way for the more extensive e-filing system.
"The new technologies we continue to bring to the office improve services for lawyers, residents, and employees, while bringing in money that helps operate the office that doesn't have to come from taxpayers," Bachtle said. "This e-filing system will reduce the amount of paper we need to use, reduce the amount of warehouse space needed for storing documents, and eventually lead to a smaller staff in the Prothonotary's office. All of that will save taxpayers by making government smaller and smarter."
This would be a good time for her to receive an award!
"We have a great school district with great teachers and students. The benefits of small schools increase our sense of community."
What benefits? Serious question.
What sense? Joke question.
Can anyone name a benefit of having a small district? Aside from amorphous feelings of "community"?
I'm asking because it seems nobody can.
Screw "community"- this community put Ron Stout on the school board. These people destroyed our schools.
These have been mentioned as benefits of a small district (others please add .......):
Everybody knows everyone (not as easy to get lost in the shuffle).
Individual attention from teachers.
Easier to participate in extracurriculars (sports, band, clubs, etc.)
Admittedly the more tangible benefits are more towards the direct end users of the district (e.g. kids, parents). Just like I at age 36 won't feel a whole lot of benefit from having a small senior center, but that doesn't mean it's not good in some ways for the people who go there.
... and if it's good for them, by extension it's in some way good for the rest of the community too.
That doesn't mean merging with another senior center wouldn't open up new opportunities, allow you to meet new friends, and would maybe cost less per person, or have better food, or alienate and annoy people if they have to travel further to get there or if too many people hog up the good bridge tables so you can't play anymore like you used to, make you feel feel like a small fish in a big pond, etc.
"You spelled borough wrong."
Your write. When talking about the council in Morrisville it should be "burro" council. Because all they do is show what asses they can be.
The negative comment above is childish and brings nothing to the table.
You spelled "right" wrong.
You spelled "you're" wrong as well. I can see why borough would give you trouble.
Table meet nothing. Nothing, table. Sheesh.
The negative comment above is childish and brings nothing to the table.
Pot meet kettle.
get over yourself.
Maybe the table was already full, so here was no room for anything else.
D'ja ever think of that?
They think I'm dumb.
I think I'm just happy.
Nice work, everyone. Sharp broadcast. Really good. Everyone on the floor as well. Really a lot of hustle. I liked it.
We all know how to spell borough and you're and right. Spell check pretty much takes care of that. The larger point is that we have a bunch of people running the town acting collectively like a bunch of third graders at recess. All nine of them leave a legacy of mistrust and unaccomplished goals at a time when Morrisville needs constructive cooperation and action to save the town.
I just don't agree with that. A lot of good has taken place over the past couple of years. A lot has gotten done with creative thinking/without raising taxes. Of course nine people will not always get along, but I simply cannot lop them all together that way. Some have tried/are trying to get things done in spite of the senescence that goes on.
Yeah I see a lot of progress. Taxes out of control, no business base, crumbling buildings, and a laughingstock police department.
Let's not forget increasing violent crime, tanking property values, a school system that is forced to offer less and less every year, a core of old-timers who screw up everything they touch, but who insist on touching everything, a mayor who is suing our broke ass town for cash for her personal gain, and council with a block of individuals who consistently vote no to everything, who never have all the information, who don't seem to understand anything and have no business in any position of authority or responsibility, a town pool that sits unrepaired, un filled-in and unsafely ignored, more tobacco shops than ever, derelict empty school buildings, no plan to address or improve any of these things, but hey you keep telling us about that progress and the good things, none of which you cited.
I've just loaded up this side of the scale, now you load the other and let's see what we have.
Our health? Random acts of kindness? God's love?
Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet?
All those things are wonderful, even chevrolet, but have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
I'm serious, I wonder if anyone can cite what positives the current batch of leadership have brought to the town and its prosperity.
Just being better than the previous isn't a valid answer.
Got awful quiet in here.
Library renovations
Dog park
In progress...
Pool
Lighting project
River trail
Lower trash bills, better practices on our trash hauling and single stream recycling. With our last hauler we could only recycled up to #3. Now we can recycle up to #7 and we can recycle things like cardboard which I appreciate.
Not to forget Tea Party Fitz this is what he's introducing to keep us safe.
http://fitzpatrick.house.gov/sites/fitzpatrick.house.gov/files/NSA%20Accountablity%20Act%20of%202013.pdf
Hmmm...who wrote that for him?
It's tough to accomplish things when you've got 3-5 albatrosses around your neck dragging you down.
There always has been an excuse, there are current excuses, and there will always be an excuse to find...your town is only a strong as it's school district. It's economics 101. Instead of crying poor why don't you invest in your town, you live there, no? Raise your property values from within, instead of what you've done since "industry" left...Opportunity is behind every closed door. Clean out the dead weight and embrace change.
Easier said than done, but good comments. Dead weight is a cottage industry here.
I appreciate the attempts at positivity, but if that paltry list is the best we can do, then yes, the leadership is absent at best, and more often than not, harmful to the well-being of the town.
Serious questions. What ideas do you have? What projects would you like to see done? How much money are you willing to pay for them?
Library renovations (used by a small group)
Dog park (used by a small group)
In progress...
Pool (what about the pool? What is plan, bring it back, fill it in, make into something useful for community kids? what is the plan)
Lighting project (we have bigger issues, need police and crime fought the good old fashioned way)
River trail (where, when, cant enjoy it if you get robbed)
How about we set the bar nice and low and just ask for a few simple things:
Fix the pool. or fill it in.
Manage the police force in such a manner that it isn't a regional embarrassment and so that people can walk around town without fear of being mugged.
Have a leadership group that is committed to the betterment of the community instead of grinding their generational axes and standing in the way of any good ideas just because someone else may have proposed them.
If we are committed to the small school district, then fund it such that it becomes a reason to move here instead of moving away. We almost made it with the new school, but instead we got the SOT-SOC debacle. But hey, Sandy Gibson... she's got a Doctorate in social work, she's educated! She doesn't get us poor folk, we'd rather wallow in mediocrity and misery. She is the evil, kill the idea!!!
Short of the merger, the new school was the best chance we had, and we blew it..HARD!
Are there new chances coming? Yes, but all I see is the same obstructionist, xenophobic, myopic reactions. I am not sanguine about any chance to break the cycle. We promote and elect people with no management ability whatsoever to manage our town and education, and then we wonder why they do such a shitty job. If someone is even remotely more successful, they quickly get branded as a yuppie or some such crap and then they get beaten down to the least common denominator or quit. It's much easier to see the endless cycle and just leave it behind.
Oh please, even if someone is trying to make change, is trying to move forward, is trying to work with everyone this person will still get raked over the coals because that's how it's done in Morrisville.
You don't know Morrisville.
I think the two posters above hit the nail on the head. They seem to know Morrisville pretty well.
Those two posters above have Morrisville nailed. Roast any progress until well done, chase the liberal progressives out of town, and serve the wreckage cold.
You don't have to be liberal. Any kind of sharp, competent forward thinkers will do to be chased out of town.
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