WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.359 Promises cat politicians won't join us in the chat. 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:05.000 Host out a politician and I. 3 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.119 Love it fifty five KRZ the Talk Station. 4 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.559 It's a seven oh five at fifty five kr See 5 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:31.039 the Talk Station Extra special Tuesday. Here coming up in 6 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.640 an hour Insights Scoop with Bright Bart, reporter Randy Clark 7 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.159 on the Border and Daniel Davis Deep Dive with the 8 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.399 latest on Ukrain Russia. That will take place at eight thirty. 9 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.960 In the meantime in studio, Todd Zinzer, former Inspector General 10 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.000 and hosts of the Citizen Watchdog podcast. Good to have 11 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:47.600 you back in Todd. It's always a pleasure. 12 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:47.960 Thank you. 13 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.039 Brian, good morning man. He's got his fingers on the pulse. 14 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:53.320 What's going on all around the area, including the city 15 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.640 of Cincinnati. We've got some interesting things to talk about 16 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.000 in the city of Cincinnati. First off, how's the Citizen 17 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:00.000 Watchdog podcast going? 18 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:02.520 Oh, it's going, it's going great. I really enjoy it. 19 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:04.519 Great. I bet you do. You get talked for a 20 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.760 full hour or whatever on you know when. 21 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:08.879 I try to keep it to about ten minutes or so. 22 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.560 Oh no, kidding, yeah, So people don't have to listen 23 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:13.359 to me for that. 24 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.640 Oh, come on, man, you're interesting, and again you have 25 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.640 all the facts. Let's start with this, since at council 26 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.400 meeting yesterday apparently they had a million three laying around 27 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.159 that wasn't used from last year the capital Project fund. 28 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.439 You watched this whole council meeting on this, this debate 29 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:31.640 over where to use that money. 30 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:34.400 Yes, I did yesterday and the ultimate. 31 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.359 Vote was to buy a couple of dump trucks to 32 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.719 try to better manage the snow removal, but also spend 33 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:43.840 three hundred thousand dollars on the Camp Washington skate park project. 34 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.159 Something I had no idea about. Is there a skate 35 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.400 park lobby out there or something. 36 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.519 There are a lot of enthusiasts for skates and BMX 37 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.040 bikes and things like that, and they have organized and 38 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.519 for the last I'm not sure exactly how long, but 39 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:02.640 it's a million dollars skate park. 40 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:03.359 Wow. 41 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.760 That f TA have Purvol mayor of Purvol kind of 42 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:11.319 took on as a project and they needed this three 43 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.840 hundred thousand to finish the project. And it's probably going 44 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.800 to be done right around the time where they need 45 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:20.520 some ribbon cutting for the campaign. 46 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.840 Of of course it will be now the question is 47 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.520 do they have money for maintenance and upkeep of the 48 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.520 aforementioned skatepark once it's built. 49 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.919 Well, I don't think that's currently in the budgets. 50 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.159 They'll talk about that, no, okay, because they're supposed to 51 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.479 have money to fix the roads, and I know a 52 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.039 lot of people are having some problems with the fact 53 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:40.560 that the roads haven't been fixed and have been quite 54 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.560 neglected for years and years. That's right, yep, huh, okay, 55 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:50.000 ignore what you've built and build something else so you 56 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.400 can have a ribbon cutting ceremony. Now, I'll acknowledge I 57 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.840 would much rather have a kid ride around a BMX 58 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.000 bikes or skateboarding outdoors in the sunshine than sitting in 59 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.039 his basement watching our video games and drinking mountain dew 60 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.560 code red. I mean, the health benefits cannot be ignored. 61 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.120 But see going back, Yes, we want this, that and 62 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.159 the other thing. We have a list of things we 63 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.439 want from the city, including a skate park. But if 64 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.159 the city can't afford or neglects everything it already is 65 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.639 responsible for, then I'm the kind of person that would 66 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:21.719 say no, no, no, we need to deal with what 67 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.280 we've got already, and once we find ourselves in a 68 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:27.439 budgetary position where we can say we fixed that already. 69 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.840 We've taken care of the infrastructure, We've dealt with the 70 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.360 whole broken windows concept. Now let's entertain ideas about where 71 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:36.719 this is, where the next capital expenditure is going to be. 72 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.680 Who's got ideas? One hand's going to be raised saying 73 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.199 we need a skateboard park, and there'll be a multitude 74 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:43.879 of other hands that get raised saying no, no, no, 75 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:45.520 we want this, and no, no, no, we want that. 76 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.039 For example, I know there were hands raised in terms 77 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.680 of where to spend this money because Vice Mayor Jan 78 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:54.000 Michelle lemon Kearney wanted this money to go to the 79 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:01.240 Clifton Cultural Arts Center headquarters and Artworks Creative Campus Art Park. 80 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:05.879 I've never heard of those, and why would she want 81 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:09.000 money to go there as opposed to say, this skate 82 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.879 park or buying the dump trucks to deal with the 83 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.120 snow removal. Do you know anything about these organizations? Tod 84 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:20.319 Z insert well Artworks. Artworks is one, pig Works is 85 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.759 a second one. Oh, and then I think the Cultural 86 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.720 Center is a third one. And they were basically all 87 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.199 trying to tap into this one point three million. Pig 88 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:36.480 Works is the group that promotes or operates the Fine 89 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:41.560 Pig Marathon and all the associated events, and the head 90 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.759 of Pigworks actually is the I think he is the 91 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.720 editor of the Business Courier. But they came in looking 92 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.879 for money to finish what some brick and mortar brick 93 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:57.199 and mortar headquarters up in Walna Hills, I believe, really, 94 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.759 And in his testimony he said that they generate like 95 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.759 twenty million dollars worth of economic activity as a result 96 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:09.920 of the marathon, and I don't think Artworks had quite 97 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:15.720 the same economic story. But these are groups that fall 98 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.920 into this leverage support category that we talked about last time, 99 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.360 and you actually had a caller yesterday who talked about it. 100 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.720 It's the same thing he I think I met him 101 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:27.639 at the budget hearing that was held up in Price 102 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:28.639 Hill a couple of weeks ago. 103 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:35.240 And these are this is a prime example of how 104 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:40.519 the Democrats have gotten support in the community. They have 105 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:46.439 numerous nonprofits NGOs, et cetera that they distribute about twenty 106 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.839 million dollars to and they have this relationship where they 107 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:51.839 feed off each other. 108 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:59.279 So the city taxpayer dollars go to these outside organizations 109 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.720 for the serving whatever purpose, and then presumably the outside 110 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:08.720 organizations then beyond what they are structured or built to 111 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:13.240 do and accomplish, like run the Flying Pig Marathon, also 112 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.079 serve as a political wining to help the council people 113 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:19.839 and the mayor and the vice mayor get re elected. 114 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:24.160 Yes, there's actually there's actually a word for it, Brian. 115 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.560 It's called client teleism. Oh really, yes, you can look 116 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.639 it up. It's called client teleism. And I do have 117 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.240 a podcast on it and where I read a couple 118 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:39.560 of definitions, and it's exactly what's going on. The groups 119 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.240 and the politicians form this relationship where it's, you know, 120 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:44.800 they help each other out. 121 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.240 Well, I yeah, it sort of sounds like what PG 122 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.959 Sittenfolde got in trouble for. I mean, can I say 123 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.600 that out loud? I mean it sounds very analogous. 124 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:04.000 Well, exactly. And the the protections that are necessary to 125 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.839 make sure that all these are arm's length, it's very 126 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:11.199 very important. I don't really think they exist. Here's here's 127 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:16.680 on this leverage support. The city manager has a like 128 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.439 a process for people to apply and they go through 129 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:24.040 and they fill out an application, etc. They justify their request. 130 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:29.680 But then somehow, after the city manager makes her recommendation, 131 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.360 the mayor gets to provide extra money to whoever he 132 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:37.120 wants there, and then the city council gets to add 133 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:41.360 money to whatever they want. And last year, the city 134 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:44.519 manager came in with a recommendation for like four million 135 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:49.000 for a certain list, and by the time they were done, 136 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.319 it was raised one point five million dollars. Because of 137 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:55.519 what this mayor wanted and what the council wanted. The 138 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.600 mayor gave an extra two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 139 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.439 to one group just with the stroke of a penanty. 140 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.079 I don't know how he does it, that's how it 141 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.120 looks anyway, And I did talk about that at the 142 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:10.519 budget hearing. I had two things I thought they should 143 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.920 do at the budget hearing. One was be more transparent 144 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.759 about how that works. But the other one was I 145 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.360 think they should have something in the budget about what 146 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:24.079 the mandatory costs are, what are the requirements by the 147 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.040 federal government, the state government, the city charter, what must 148 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.720 we spend money on, and break it out into mandatory 149 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.440 versus discretionary and all of these. 150 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.720 Like the federal government has mandatory and discretionary. 151 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.000 Exactly so that when we start giving money around, we 152 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.440 have to make sure that we provide sufficient funds for 153 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:45.200 those things that we must do. 154 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.240 Well in a certain respect. And I mean this with 155 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:54.759 the highest praise. You're kind of the powerless Elon Musk 156 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.639 in the situation because you're raising this whole like, well, 157 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:00.360 you know, we got a litany of multi billion dollar 158 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.840 programs that we're now finding out about that no one 159 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.720 knew about, that our taxpayer dollars are funding, and that 160 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.279 Elon Musk is bringing it to our attention. This is 161 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:09.600 the kind of thing that needs to be brought to 162 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.519 the City of Cincinnati taxpayer's attention because they may be 163 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:14.399 looking at their front door to road that hasn't been 164 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:16.600 touched in twenty years, it's got potholes in it, and 165 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:18.799 they're frustrated as hell. 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Just beginning to build into downtown Chucking 221 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.480 Ramon fifty five kr Z the talk station. 222 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:06.120 Seven nineteen I fift about KIRCD talk station eye opening 223 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.720 conversations so far right into the gate with Todd Zendler. 224 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:12.360 You can find his podcast Citizen Watchdog and learn about 225 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.200 this kind of thing all the time. And we all 226 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:15.840 learned a new word this morning. At least I did 227 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.759 CLIENTELESM and I mentioned PG Sittinfeld because we had this 228 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:23.799 project and PG essentially was convicted of the quid pro 229 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:27.240 quoll concept right where he said, ah, you line my 230 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.919 political action committee with some money and we'll get this 231 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.639 project approved. That's pretty much it. That's right now with 232 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.360 these these outside organization, these non governmental nonprofits that have 233 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.840 their hand in the city taxpayer dollars cookie jar and 234 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:45.519 are rewarded with apparently random arbitrary decision making by on 235 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.360 the part of the mayor and others to get money. 236 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.480 As you pointed out, that their proposals are submitted to 237 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:54.120 the city manager. The city manager hands over the her 238 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.080 recommendations and then he arbitrarily can raise them. As you 239 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.519 mentioned last time, he raised it, what a half million 240 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.919 dollars in an original four million dollar ask, right, but 241 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.279 no discussion or anything, right. 242 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:07.879 Nothing in the budget about that, nothing. 243 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:12.440 In the budget. Clientileism here's the definition, is a political 244 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:17.200 system where goods or services are exchanged for political support. Essentially, 245 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:20.720 it's a quid pro coo relationship where politicians and voters, 246 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:25.759 voter or groups groups politicians or political elites provide benefits 247 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:29.159 individuals like jobs, grants, or public services in exchange for 248 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:33.440 electoral support or loyalty. That's the quid pro quo. It's 249 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:36.759 not them handing money in order to get a project done. 250 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:40.639 It's the city randomly and without oversight, handing money out 251 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:44.639 to these groups knowing that they will get those groups members. 252 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.480 And you know, people work in the streets form spreading 253 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.840 the information regular election exactly? Is that not equally corrupt? 254 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:54.480 Is it that not an exchange of value for value? 255 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.440 Even though it doesn't involve them handing money to the politician, 256 00:13:57.480 --> 00:13:59.399 it just works the other way around. 257 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.240 I think it's it's in a gray area, to be sure, Brian. 258 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:08.039 You're so yeah, you're so delicate. Todd Zenzer, Well, I'm 259 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.080 calling it out. It should be a federal probe in that. 260 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.080 I mean, they looked into PG Sentinfeld, didn't they. 261 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.840 Yeah, Well, Cincinnati is kind of the perfect size for 262 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:20.519 this type of environment because it's not that big, and 263 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.440 the politicians are still close enough to these nonprofits and 264 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.080 local groups that this can flourish. 265 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:32.399 Okay, did they did they speak at this meeting yesterday? 266 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:32.960 These groups? 267 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:40.320 Yes, they did they. In fact, Artworks had several witnesses 268 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:45.039 and the Pig Works had several witnesses. I'm not sure 269 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:49.879 about the Cultural Center. There was definitely somebody there speaking 270 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.240 on his behalf. But so did the So did the 271 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:57.240 local ask me a rep come in and thank them 272 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:01.360 for the support for the equipment for the fleet? 273 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:01.879 Yeah? 274 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.080 I said that. That one quote kind of cracked me 275 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.960 up from the union head, which was which was pretty funny. 276 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.000 Because clearly one of the discussion points was this is 277 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.519 not going to solve our problems and so far as 278 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.440 dealing with snow removal in the future. It was a 279 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.000 Jeremy mccleesh the Union Local Union two forty representative quote. 280 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:25.000 While it seems like it's a minute drop in the bucket, 281 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.320 meaning these two dump trucks, at least it's something in 282 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:33.360 that bucket. So it didn't solve the problem. It's one 283 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:35.919 baby step toward getting a fleet that actually works and 284 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.039 conserve the needs of the city. So you can make 285 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.879 an argument that at least that expenditure of capital was 286 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.840 is going to provide something for the residents, as opposed 287 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.960 to these other organizations which are merely going to provide 288 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.240 political support for the elected officials there. 289 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:55.559 Yeah, well, these groups do provide services, but it's all 290 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.120 tied into the. 291 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:59.240 Yeah, but what of all the other groups that provide 292 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.919 services that all also asked for money, but this didn't 293 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:02.799 necessarily get it. 294 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:05.159 Well that's a good point because last year there were 295 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:11.080 over ninety groups that made application for these funds, and 296 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.519 there were thirty five in that group that got funded, 297 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.440 So about a third of the groups that apply got money. 298 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:22.120 The other thing that to remember about yesterday's meeting is 299 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.080 Seth Walsh basically said, well maybe we can borrow money, 300 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.320 yeah for the fleet. 301 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.679 Yeah, so bond. 302 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:31.360 Yeah. 303 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:36.279 It's it never ends, it never ends. This is just 304 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.120 actually consider this quite disturbing. And you mentioned about the 305 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:45.600 oversight pursu into what federal guidelines dominate this or. 306 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.320 Well, the auditors go in and they look at certain 307 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:51.840 operations in the city and they have to follow or 308 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:56.200 they say they follow the government audit standards that generally 309 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.320 accepted government audit standards, and that basically talks to the 310 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.759 level of evidence you need to make a finding and 311 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.200 kind of how you have to go about planning your 312 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:09.079 work and the right steps for conducting an audit right, 313 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.640 those types of things. So they say that they do 314 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:14.480 their work according to those standards, but part of those 315 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.880 standards is to get your operation reviewed by another audit group. 316 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:19.240 They don't do that. 317 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:24.759 So they say they do their work according to audit standards, 318 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.519 but they never have anybody come in and check and 319 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:31.200 verify to tell people, yes, they do their work by 320 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:32.279 the standards. 321 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.799 And let me guess they don't do that step as 322 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:36.880 critical as it is, because they claim they don't have 323 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:37.599 the money to do it. 324 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:38.480 That's what they told me. 325 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.599 Yes, well they just found one point three million dollars 326 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.200 yesterday that would kind of fund that effort several years. 327 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.839 Anyhow, I'm not going to argue with you, that's for sure. 328 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.960 Seven five. 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Inbound seventy four backing the Montana southbound seventy 373 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.920 five continues slow through walk and add an next for 374 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:06.279 ten minutes northbound seventy five from Donaldson into downtown Chuck 375 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.039 Ingram Month fifty five KR see the talk station. 376 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.559 Seven thirty here fifty five R See the talk station 377 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:15.359 A very Happy Tuesday to Todd's Inzer, a former spector 378 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:23.160 General Citizens watch Dogs podcast. Let's I'm just appalled at 379 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.079 what we just got done talking about Todd, and I 380 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.359 don't know if anything can be done about it, but 381 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:31.400 it just seems like it's a system built on corruption. Honestly, 382 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.000 it's a boiled down a thing that I can conclude. 383 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:36.240 Let's move over to connect the communities and what's going 384 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:38.039 on in Hyde Park and Hyde Park's going to have 385 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.160 none of it. Their citizens are standing up to this 386 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:43.599 redesigned redevelopment proposal. The buildings are too big that their 387 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:45.759 planning is going to change the character of the neighborhood. 388 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.279 They don't have a sufficient parking factored in. Other small 389 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.000 businesses are worried because they need the parking spaces that 390 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:53.519 are up there, and if they're flooded with a whole 391 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.880 bunch of humanity without parking spaces, it's going to disrupt business. 392 00:20:57.359 --> 00:20:59.720 So it's a I want to say it's nimby, but 393 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.200 there their complaints sound justified. But the whole project in 394 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.279 the remaking of Hyde Parks where was built on this 395 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:08.559 connected communities idea right where they got rid of and 396 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.960 changed the zoning laws. 397 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:14.400 Well there's the the issue with connected communities is that 398 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:19.759 the city just rezoned connected communities would just pass last July. Yeah, 399 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:23.920 Now this developers coming in is very influential developers coming 400 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:28.400 in and once a variance from that basically, oh. 401 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:31.440