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For Steve Connelly: So your answer to my question about decreasing yard sale permit charges is to increase the charges. Do you not agree that if the permits were more affordable--less than the current $5 fee--that would encourage folks to get a permit and then have a document that states the rules to follow? I can understand the need to notify the city of ones intent to have a sale, but $5 is too much for the filing of a simple document. Did we have to hire extra yard sale police and yard sale clerks? Or is that the another way the city has of gouging it's populace? ( No Answer posted yet. )
For Steve Connelly: If the codes office issues the permits why cant they be responsible for the signs on the light poles and stuck all over town. and yes why dont we use our police to check all the yard sales I think thats a stupid statement. If you want them to do that then dont call them for any thing else. Have you seen how many yard sales that are being held and heaven forbid if they tell a little old lady to move. Get real people.Mr. Connely maybe the city could hire a yard sale task force. think that might work? Answer: Posting signs on utility poles and in city rights of way is prohibited. Yard sales are regulated to ... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Why don't the police check to see if yard sales have a permit, there is some that have them 8 or 10 times during the summer... Answer: The police do check yard sale permits but that function is a low priority in the range of duties ass... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: I just bought a yard sale permit--$5! Why can't the permit just cost only a dollar or two? The ladies taking care of that permit were already employed and I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't be affected by lowering the fee--and maybe more folks would get legal and get a permit. Answer: The charge for a yard sale premit is a regulatory fee. It is an attempt to defray the cost of issuin... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: I noticed Sustainable Berea is going to have classes or is encouraging the keeping of livestock, poultry and the like in the City. What farm animals are currently allowed to be farmed in the city limits? Are the goats being kept up at the bottom of Peachbloom Hill a part of this project. And thanks for your patience answering the questions on this site. Answer: Chapter 51 of the City Code concerns animals in the city limits. Section 51.100 defines an animal un... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: I had asked early in the year if Peggy Flats Road was going to be repaved do you know anything yet? In my opinion the road has gotten worse. Answer: No. The city portion of Peggy Flat Road is not scheduled for an overlay. The street department will ... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Do you think the charge on the Sunburn Child situation was appropriate?? Or do you think it was too harsh?? ( No Answer posted yet. )
For Steve Connelly: Is there a city ordanance concerning the condition of vacant properties, such as the lot between Taco Bell and Walmart and the former Parker Seal and Phoenix Pokeboats plants? Answer: Berea has adopted the provisions of a national property maintenance code. A copy of that regulation ... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: Why do you and council have the City Street Department crews mowing all over "Hades and half of Georgia"? Isn't most of what is being mowed private property? The latest spot I've noticed being mowed is near the improved portion of Short Line Pike. With gas being $4.00 a gallon, shouldn't we just mow what is needed and maybe go 10 days to 2 weeks between mowings? Mr Green Answer: Gas is a big budget item for streets, police and fire. The codes office also is impacted as well as ... Read Full Answer
For Steve Connelly: I think it is an inconsiderate comment that the mayor of the Berea said at the city council meeting, and that he would automatically place this person who is associated with the college, but presenting as the "Sustainable Berea president" in with a remark so crude as saying that the college has a fleet of "hamster - powered engine's" within their fleet. I believe the mayor owes some type of an apology for his rude remark. I don't believe the college has hamster engines, because all ever see are large, vans, and mini vans on the road which use gasoline and diesel. See Below for except from article on meeting with city counsel. Mayor Steve Connelly concluded the meeting by declaring the council would carefully consider the suggestions presented by Olson and other environmentally concerned members of the community, which included but were not limited to: * Implementing programs that would encourage the adoption of alternative sources of energy; * Outlawing the use of the internal combustion engine in favor of the controversial and still experimental hamster-powered engine, which is standard issue in Berea College fleet vehicles; * Encourage citizens to inform on their neighbors, identify excessive energy users, then stage a public assembly in which violators would be crushed with large stones; Answer: My McNotes column is satire. In other words, the mayor really didn't say that. Nor was methane produ... Read Full Answer