Here is a link to a great post and discussion on Neighborhood Watch, Eureka. There are three videos by Patty Sue towards the end, worth watching.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/526576997494245?view=permalink&id=914347322050542
Instead of giving interviews on TV, Austin Allison; instead of promoting yourself via Coast Guard events and showing up in Samoa, Natalie; maybe you both need to fix issues in Eureka.
Your bosses are the local businesses and the taxpayers that pay your salary, start listening to them for a change.
It was a local neighborhood facebook page, my posting on a situation and alerting EPD as well as the local TV stations reporting on it that led to the swift arrest of Harry Nuneviller. That was in your district Natalie.
On a daily basis, it is citizens, neighborhood pages and local media informing people. EPD are not the City's social workers.
Austin and the "progressives" on Eureka City Council, you ran promising change. The roads are filthy, weeds sprouting everywhere, bums trashing neighborhoods. Eureka looks worse than ever before. Humboldt Harm Reduction wants money? Instead of passing out needles, they should be out daily helping clean up this crap, not citizens. Before any non profit wants tax payer funding, they should be observed on a regular basis and give back to the community. Fund organizations like Rotaract.
At least Kim Bergel responds to her constituents and gets out there and volunteers.
People are complaining on social media because they aren't being heard.
Wait... You're asking all politicians to actually do what they promised during a campaign? Unheard of. We all know elected officials who follow through on campaign promises are unique. They've just won the popularity pageant, they need to sit back and enjoy the after glow of being so damn awesome.
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DeleteI drove south from central Oregon Coast. Eureka is the worst city on the drive, by far. Dirty, weeds, bums, abandoned properties...
ReplyDeleteEureka = Urethra
ReplyDeleteDo they get paid for that?
ReplyDeleteYes a monthly amount. Not to mention the indirect perks of being an elected official.
DeleteBergel is the only one I've seen out canvassing neighborhoods for anything. I've seen her cruising some pretty tough neighborhoods chatting up the locals about whatever. The other two I only see when there's photo op going on or a TV camera present. And yes, streets and curbs are a mess and it's not even Fall. Yet when I do see a street sweeper, it's a half-assed cleaning that mainly goes down the center and pushes debris from one side to the other. In fact, I clean my own curbs and fence lines. ~TMOB
ReplyDeleteWhat makes it worse is that well intentioned landlords or business owners use leaf blowers in Old Town that just moves the dust and leaves to the street, does not clean anything.
Deletei found Kim to be completely nonresponsive, unlike Natalie, who responded to emails with emails and investigation. The subject was a push to put sewage sludge from all that the City of Eureka produces onto the Sheriff's farm at the Rohnerville Airport. Working with the Air attack base there, we got a pilot to testify as to his concerns as to wildlife strikes like birds and deer. This Sheriff's farm attracts a huge flock of large birds. Further they were going to grow alfalfa, which our animal damage control man said would attract deer from Redding. The COH PW Director testified to the Board as the part-time Airport Manager that there was a wildlife exclusion fence at this airport—there is not one circling the airfield. They covered up
ReplyDeletea deer strike against our air ambulance twin engine aircraft at Rohnerville Airport. The best practice in the long run, as MCSD found, was to buy or lease nonairport property, as I hear Eureka is now doing. The FAA had an advisory circular against this practice of sewage spray and sludge dumping proposed by management in the approach to the main runway 32 at ACV. People see 800 acres of clear zones protecting the airport operations area, and they endanger everyones safety with these schemes. Now they want to poke the pilots eyeballs by pointing reflective solar panels at the RW32 approach, again. The Humboldt County Aviation Advisory Committee came out against Eureka's sewage sludge all being dumped out at Rohnerville Airport after the testimony by the CDF pilot about the clear and present danger this project presented. Now Aviation has stripped all the money out of these outlying general aviation airfields to pave the airport operations area (runway, taxiway and ramp) at Garberville so that a light twin pilot can get a thousand pound of pot out of state. The southern Humboldt Board of Supervisors have spoken!
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DeleteAnd how does the above example show that Natalie responded to concern by someone living in Eureka or an issue affecting Eureka. While I am glad you got a response from her and if you are not someone who is a friend or donor to her campaign, then great. Sludge is not as immediate as public safety. The airport is not a Eureka issue, it is a County issue.
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