Our Mayor and staff have been preaching about cleaning up the city since the last election. Our building inspector along with our fire and police chiefs have been working on ways to correct many of the buildings which are in sad shape throughout our city. I applaud and agree with these measures. I welcome anything that helps the overall appearance of our city.
However……over a month ago I brought up on the council floor the need to correct the broken windows at the Matthiessen School building. At that time there were two which were obviously broken by vandals and in need of repair.
More recently as I checked out the site I found that in addition to not correcting the previously noted windows more than 6 others were now added to the list in need of repair. This building is referred to as an “attractive nuisance” in insurance lingo because if left in its present state it draws certain elements who would vandalize further or enter and do internal damage as well. God forbid someone gets hurt in the building because we would certainly bear a portion of the responsibility for not correcting these problems as they were made known to us. For those of you who don’t know or have forgotten the City owns this building.
How hypocritical is it that we preach to the private sector to correct their eyesores while we ignore ours? We should be ashamed and take immediate actions to fix this taxpayer owned deteriorating building.
I certainly hope the Mayor doesn’t subscibe to the old saying of “Do as I say, not as I do”…
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