please oh please dont tell me that we as a city are going to pay tens of thousands in legal fees again to investigate a council member. the whole fiasco regarding Gordon was a waste of thousands of our dollars and hers just to find that she was in the clear. admittedly if there is a definitive wrongdoing, then by all means correct the situation, but dont go trigger happy.

” …the cost per cut on this contract was 3 times as high as Platinum’s, but the grant was for creating season work for homeless, unemployed people and not merely to mow grass.”

So in a state of budget shortages its ok to mindlessly spend taxpayer money as long as its for a good cause? gee why not send our entire budget to Haiti, i’m sure they could use our $16million to help rebuild. thats the most good we can afford and we’ll probably get a nice plaque for the City Hall before its sold and probably a nice tax deduction too.

Home comes first. Helping the homeless and poor and creating jobs is a good thing to do but seriously, the logic of this setup escapes me, if you pay them $8 an hour minimum you should be able to get the same amount of work for less than half the cost of paying a service company, so what are they doing hiring 15 people to cut one lawn? why not hire 3 to do the work and pay 12 to stay out of the way, same results! please explain this as i am SURE i am misreading this.