A break from politics y'all. This is a good thing. Happy Easter !
Project Graduation is having Spirit Nights at the Chick Fil-A in Kemah to raise money for the Alcohol free graduation party. If you are planning to eat out on any of the dates described in the email below we would appreciate you going to the Chick Fil-A in Kemah. The first Spirit Night is this Tuesday so we are trying to get out the word by email/mouth so that we get a good turn out. The address is:
Chick Fil-A
321 FM 2094 Rd (also Marina Bay Dr.)
Kemah, TX 77565
Please be sure to tell the server when you order that this is to support The Clear Creek Project.
Also, please take a minute to read the email below from the Project Graduation Chairperson.
Thanks in advance.
Hugs,
Mary : )
Please let me know what day or days you are available to volunteer for our Project Graduation Spirit Nights at Chick Fil-A. The dates are as follows, we will need 2-4 volunteers each night from 5-8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 14th
Thursday, April 30th
Tuesday, May 5th
Thursday, May 21st
I have sent a flier to the school to be approved. And will try to have it handed out Monday and Tuesday. Please let everyone know that we are doing this and that anyone that dines in or uses the drive thru just needs to let the cashier know that they are support Clear Creek Project Graduation. I have attached the flier for you to send out to friends, family and neighbors.
Thanks so much,
Sandy
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Forum set for April 9th
The League City Chamber of Commerce will hold their annual forum in the council chambers. This year they will start at 6PM with the Council Candidates and include the race for school board. The candidates for School Board will start around 7:30. I understand that the forum will be televised on channel 16. What questions would you like answered at the forum?
Friday, March 27, 2009
Video of the 2009 League City Council Candidates' Forum in Glen Cove
The promised video of the 2009 Glen Cove forum for League City council candidates is finally available.
The quality had to be reduced due to the length, but even so it may take several minutes to load so please be patient. It will play as soon as the download starts, but don’t try to skip forward past the point at which it has loaded until the whole thing has loaded or it will jam. If you do have trouble, try using the ‘download’ button instead.
Please feel free to share this anywhere you like and on any forum you like. I ask only that if you choose to make any edits of your own that you ask my permission before sharing any edited version.
My apologies for the delay in getting this out; I was delayed by some necessary computer maintenance and by having to learn some new things as I was a little more ambitious this year.
We used two cameras this time to avoid loosing anything to battery changes, background noises, blocked views, etc. Editing the two tracks together for the best combination of video and audio was a bit more work than anticipated. I tried to be sure to include every word spoken by the candidates without editing for content; hopefully the result is acceptable.
All of the known and anticipated candidates were informed of this event on February 18th and it was publicly announced at that time on this blog, the League City blog, and at the next city council meeting. The forum took place on the evening of Monday, March 9, 2009.
In response, we had in attendance the following candidates: for place 3 Mick Phalen; for place 4 Mike Lee; and for place 4 Dustin Gooding and Phyllis Sanborn. (In order of appearance by place number and alphabetically.)
Chris Samuelson informed me a couple weeks in advance of an unavoidable business conflict, but ultimately dropped out. Ed Station answered a follow-up call after his late sign up that he had a conflicting HOA meeting. Tommy Cones sent me a note the Friday before the forum that he had a conflicting meeting. Pat Hallisey signed up to run at the last minute about two hours before the forum, which I learned as we were getting set up. He did not respond or appear.
Thanks are due to Brenda Watson for video and photography, Pat Logan for time keeping, Dub & Marie Mixon and Leslie Clarkson for advertising and Dub & Marie especially for cooking hot dogs. Thanks also to the residents of Glen Cove (this was not an HOA event) and to those candidates who did appear.
It is also linked from the latest post on my personal blog.
The same rules of civility regarding irrelevant and disruptive posts as used in Charles Meyer's preceding thread will apply to this thread as well.
Jeff Hagen
The quality had to be reduced due to the length, but even so it may take several minutes to load so please be patient. It will play as soon as the download starts, but don’t try to skip forward past the point at which it has loaded until the whole thing has loaded or it will jam. If you do have trouble, try using the ‘download’ button instead.
Please feel free to share this anywhere you like and on any forum you like. I ask only that if you choose to make any edits of your own that you ask my permission before sharing any edited version.
My apologies for the delay in getting this out; I was delayed by some necessary computer maintenance and by having to learn some new things as I was a little more ambitious this year.
We used two cameras this time to avoid loosing anything to battery changes, background noises, blocked views, etc. Editing the two tracks together for the best combination of video and audio was a bit more work than anticipated. I tried to be sure to include every word spoken by the candidates without editing for content; hopefully the result is acceptable.
All of the known and anticipated candidates were informed of this event on February 18th and it was publicly announced at that time on this blog, the League City blog, and at the next city council meeting. The forum took place on the evening of Monday, March 9, 2009.
In response, we had in attendance the following candidates: for place 3 Mick Phalen; for place 4 Mike Lee; and for place 4 Dustin Gooding and Phyllis Sanborn. (In order of appearance by place number and alphabetically.)
Chris Samuelson informed me a couple weeks in advance of an unavoidable business conflict, but ultimately dropped out. Ed Station answered a follow-up call after his late sign up that he had a conflicting HOA meeting. Tommy Cones sent me a note the Friday before the forum that he had a conflicting meeting. Pat Hallisey signed up to run at the last minute about two hours before the forum, which I learned as we were getting set up. He did not respond or appear.
Thanks are due to Brenda Watson for video and photography, Pat Logan for time keeping, Dub & Marie Mixon and Leslie Clarkson for advertising and Dub & Marie especially for cooking hot dogs. Thanks also to the residents of Glen Cove (this was not an HOA event) and to those candidates who did appear.
It is also linked from the latest post on my personal blog.
The same rules of civility regarding irrelevant and disruptive posts as used in Charles Meyer's preceding thread will apply to this thread as well.
Jeff Hagen
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Topical Discussion of the Candidates and Campaign Issues Only
This thread is dedicated to discussion of the candidates and the issues of the current election. Irrelevant posts intended to malign or disrupt will not be allowed. Where does your candidate stand on:
Who gets your vote and why?
Who gets your goat and why?
- Residential Development
- Government Spending
- Ethics Reform
- Special Interest Influence
- Charter Revision
- The CIP
Who gets your vote and why?
Who gets your goat and why?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Emails
I have received these emails and thought you might want to comment on them.
The election in May is crucial to Leauge City's future and how our money is spent.
We need people on council who will support our Mayor and the views of the people that live here. In this day and age things are changing fast locally, state and worldwide. We need conservative leaders that have moral and ethical values. We don’t need more of the good ole boy system. That is what you will get if you elect Pat Hallisey, Tommy Cones and Ed Station. If you want change you need to vote for Mike Lee, Mick Phalen and Phylis Sanborn. Mr. Hallisey, thank you for your prior years of service to League City. This is a different town and a different place from 20 years ago. Mr. Hallisey, it’s time to leave your service in the past. Mr. Cones, we thank you for your interesting service. Voting for $390K to be spent on a dog track is not using my money wisely! Your time is up; you need to move into the past. Mr. Station, I am sorry that you associate with these two candidates but your time will never come. League City citizens I urge you to get out vote and make a difference.
Submitted to Galveston Daily News.
Can League City afford 3 more years of poor decision making?
Incumbent Tommy Cones has voted for over 10 housing developments. More houses more traffic.
Incumbent Tommy Cones was investigated by the DA and Grand Jury regarding the new trash contract. He voted in favor of the new trash contract, costing the taxpayers more money.
Incumbent Tommy Cones voted in favor to pay $72,000.00 additional fees to the new trash company for trash collections during Hurricane Ike. This collection was not listed in their contract. FEMA will not reimburse the city for this money.
Incumbent Tommy Cones is involved in a lawsuit over the Glen Cove Bridge
Incumbent Tommy Cones received $5000.00 from the developer who purchased the Glen Cove Bridge. The contribution was made in a non-election year.
Incumbent Tommy Cones has received over $20,000.00 in campaign contributions from Developers, Home Builders Political Action groups; and outside interests.
Incumbent Tommy Cones has spent over $5000.00 of taxpayer’s money traveling to Colorado (where he went skiing); Florida to watch a space launch; and tour Washington D.C.
Incumbent Tommy Cones was given an all expense free trip to California to view a Big League Dream complex. Cones voted for the LC Big League Dreams Project, costing the taxpayers over $22 million dollars. League City has not received revenue from the project.
Incumbent Tommy Cones voted in favor of the $379.000.00 Dog Park, costing the taxpayers the cost of up keep, personnel, etc.
In a time of a soft economy, the Dog Park should not have been a priority.
Incumbent Tommy Cones stated at the February24,2009 council workshop that he “had attended about 90% of the HGAC meetings”. His attendance record indicated that he had attended less than 40% of the meetings.
Incumbent Tommy Cones has been notified by the Texas Ethics Commission regarding numerous alleged campaign filing violations.
Incumbent Tommy Cones demanded and voted for $5000.00 (of taxpayer’s dollars) be spent on soda to be provided at council meetings.
Can League City really afford 3 more years of poor decisions?
VOTE to continue the change
Vote for Mick Phalen
The Top Ten Reasons Why to Vote for Pat Hallisey:
1.)Pat needs a job.
His consulting gigs and his developer money from the last campaigns are all gone.
2.)Pat needs to be in a position where he can feel important.
He has never won an election and his appointed positions that made him feel important have all ended very abruptly.
3.)Pat needs credibility.
After spending tens of thousands of everyone else’s money on losing campaigns no one listens to what he has to say.
4.)Pat needs Developer money.
His friends are tired of paying for his lunches at the country club. And when Pat pays for lunch they all know they will be ordering off Taco Bell’s dollar menu.
5.)Pat needs more friends on his facebook account.
Face book monitors emailed him to say that he needs to have more than 2 people to continue to keep that sight up. (and they do not count multiple email addresses going to the same IP address as legitimate friends)
6.)Pat needs to buy a home.
He needs more room for all the files he will have when he takes those that have wronged him to court.
7.)Pat needs to have someone listen to him.
The help line at dell has blocked his phone number.
8.)Pat needs to buy a new sharpening stone.
He has many more axes to grind.
9.)Pat’s friends need some down time from him.
If you had to listen to him all the time wouldn’t you?
10.)Pat needs to buy anti hacking software
To keep everyone from taking over his computer and posting nasty, hateful thoughts on the web and blaming him.
Any commets?
The election in May is crucial to Leauge City's future and how our money is spent.
We need people on council who will support our Mayor and the views of the people that live here. In this day and age things are changing fast locally, state and worldwide. We need conservative leaders that have moral and ethical values. We don’t need more of the good ole boy system. That is what you will get if you elect Pat Hallisey, Tommy Cones and Ed Station. If you want change you need to vote for Mike Lee, Mick Phalen and Phylis Sanborn. Mr. Hallisey, thank you for your prior years of service to League City. This is a different town and a different place from 20 years ago. Mr. Hallisey, it’s time to leave your service in the past. Mr. Cones, we thank you for your interesting service. Voting for $390K to be spent on a dog track is not using my money wisely! Your time is up; you need to move into the past. Mr. Station, I am sorry that you associate with these two candidates but your time will never come. League City citizens I urge you to get out vote and make a difference.
Submitted to Galveston Daily News.
Can League City afford 3 more years of poor decision making?
Incumbent Tommy Cones has voted for over 10 housing developments. More houses more traffic.
Incumbent Tommy Cones was investigated by the DA and Grand Jury regarding the new trash contract. He voted in favor of the new trash contract, costing the taxpayers more money.
Incumbent Tommy Cones voted in favor to pay $72,000.00 additional fees to the new trash company for trash collections during Hurricane Ike. This collection was not listed in their contract. FEMA will not reimburse the city for this money.
Incumbent Tommy Cones is involved in a lawsuit over the Glen Cove Bridge
Incumbent Tommy Cones received $5000.00 from the developer who purchased the Glen Cove Bridge. The contribution was made in a non-election year.
Incumbent Tommy Cones has received over $20,000.00 in campaign contributions from Developers, Home Builders Political Action groups; and outside interests.
Incumbent Tommy Cones has spent over $5000.00 of taxpayer’s money traveling to Colorado (where he went skiing); Florida to watch a space launch; and tour Washington D.C.
Incumbent Tommy Cones was given an all expense free trip to California to view a Big League Dream complex. Cones voted for the LC Big League Dreams Project, costing the taxpayers over $22 million dollars. League City has not received revenue from the project.
Incumbent Tommy Cones voted in favor of the $379.000.00 Dog Park, costing the taxpayers the cost of up keep, personnel, etc.
In a time of a soft economy, the Dog Park should not have been a priority.
Incumbent Tommy Cones stated at the February24,2009 council workshop that he “had attended about 90% of the HGAC meetings”. His attendance record indicated that he had attended less than 40% of the meetings.
Incumbent Tommy Cones has been notified by the Texas Ethics Commission regarding numerous alleged campaign filing violations.
Incumbent Tommy Cones demanded and voted for $5000.00 (of taxpayer’s dollars) be spent on soda to be provided at council meetings.
Can League City really afford 3 more years of poor decisions?
VOTE to continue the change
Vote for Mick Phalen
The Top Ten Reasons Why to Vote for Pat Hallisey:
1.)Pat needs a job.
His consulting gigs and his developer money from the last campaigns are all gone.
2.)Pat needs to be in a position where he can feel important.
He has never won an election and his appointed positions that made him feel important have all ended very abruptly.
3.)Pat needs credibility.
After spending tens of thousands of everyone else’s money on losing campaigns no one listens to what he has to say.
4.)Pat needs Developer money.
His friends are tired of paying for his lunches at the country club. And when Pat pays for lunch they all know they will be ordering off Taco Bell’s dollar menu.
5.)Pat needs more friends on his facebook account.
Face book monitors emailed him to say that he needs to have more than 2 people to continue to keep that sight up. (and they do not count multiple email addresses going to the same IP address as legitimate friends)
6.)Pat needs to buy a home.
He needs more room for all the files he will have when he takes those that have wronged him to court.
7.)Pat needs to have someone listen to him.
The help line at dell has blocked his phone number.
8.)Pat needs to buy a new sharpening stone.
He has many more axes to grind.
9.)Pat’s friends need some down time from him.
If you had to listen to him all the time wouldn’t you?
10.)Pat needs to buy anti hacking software
To keep everyone from taking over his computer and posting nasty, hateful thoughts on the web and blaming him.
Any commets?
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Mayor's Report
Prior to this Council Meeting, there was a birthday party for League City resident Bertha Iles, who will be 100 years old on March 21st. Birthday cake was served to gathered guests.
I was pleased that there was a large number of visitors present. All council members were in attendance except Tim Paulissen.
In the proclamations department, I was delighted to recognize the accomplishment of the first credit union branch in Clear Springs High School. A certificate was presented to Alex Torres, Assistant School Superintendent and Peggy Zahler, representing JSC Credit Union. The branch is a part of the school's co-op department and is using 4 students.
I also made a proclamation of March 21 as Ms. Bertha Iles Day. Bertha is an active member of our Seniors Program. she arrived for her honorarium in a limousine! Happy Birthday, Bertha!
Half a dozen residents of Clear Creek Shores spoke against a bridge across Clear Creek at Palomino Road, and brought an attorney with them, Leslie Barris, who also spoke to Council against the controversial bridge. Dan Becker spoke about fiscal responsibility, and Forrest Sory echoed Mr. Becker's comments.
The resolution to adopt a schedule of regular additional annual workshops for City Council finally passed. This was the third appearance before Council.
In my Mayors comments, I told everyone that because of delays in selling road bonds due to the terrible market right now, we will be taking a new look at our transportation needs. This comprehensive mobility study will encompass the whole city, the jammed intersections, with an eye also to mass transit: park and ride, and high speed rail. I really feel it is prudent to use this time wisely to be sure that what we are planning will really solve our problems.
Board Members were approved for TIRZ #4 and one member was appointed to DLC. DLC and the Park on Clear Creek Development Authority Corporation were postponed to the next meeting.
A bid for auto parts and batteries was awarded to Russell and Smith Ford through a drawing out of a hat by Peggy Zahler, due to a tie in the bid. Amazing that even in a city as big as ours, we still must resort to such primitive measures at times!
Council voted to create a fulltime "Arborist" position, which we have been without for more than a year. Cones voted no
A date of March 30 was set for a Council Workshop to discuss proposed Charter Amendment propositions. No time has been specified.
A home is being built for a veteran at 2768 Lomelina Lane in Tuscan Lakes. Council voted to waive all City related building and impact fees as an honor to the veteran, pending of course, the legalities involved.
It was announced that the League City Chamber will be hosting a Candidates Forum on April 7 or 9, here in Ciouncil Chambers.
The joint meeting of P&Z, ZBA, and the Historic District Commission scheduled for March 17, has been rescheduled April 21st.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:39.
Next week is Spring Break for CCISD students! Hooray for Daylight Savings Time! Enjoy!
Mayor Toni Randall
I was pleased that there was a large number of visitors present. All council members were in attendance except Tim Paulissen.
In the proclamations department, I was delighted to recognize the accomplishment of the first credit union branch in Clear Springs High School. A certificate was presented to Alex Torres, Assistant School Superintendent and Peggy Zahler, representing JSC Credit Union. The branch is a part of the school's co-op department and is using 4 students.
I also made a proclamation of March 21 as Ms. Bertha Iles Day. Bertha is an active member of our Seniors Program. she arrived for her honorarium in a limousine! Happy Birthday, Bertha!
Half a dozen residents of Clear Creek Shores spoke against a bridge across Clear Creek at Palomino Road, and brought an attorney with them, Leslie Barris, who also spoke to Council against the controversial bridge. Dan Becker spoke about fiscal responsibility, and Forrest Sory echoed Mr. Becker's comments.
The resolution to adopt a schedule of regular additional annual workshops for City Council finally passed. This was the third appearance before Council.
In my Mayors comments, I told everyone that because of delays in selling road bonds due to the terrible market right now, we will be taking a new look at our transportation needs. This comprehensive mobility study will encompass the whole city, the jammed intersections, with an eye also to mass transit: park and ride, and high speed rail. I really feel it is prudent to use this time wisely to be sure that what we are planning will really solve our problems.
Board Members were approved for TIRZ #4 and one member was appointed to DLC. DLC and the Park on Clear Creek Development Authority Corporation were postponed to the next meeting.
A bid for auto parts and batteries was awarded to Russell and Smith Ford through a drawing out of a hat by Peggy Zahler, due to a tie in the bid. Amazing that even in a city as big as ours, we still must resort to such primitive measures at times!
Council voted to create a fulltime "Arborist" position, which we have been without for more than a year. Cones voted no
A date of March 30 was set for a Council Workshop to discuss proposed Charter Amendment propositions. No time has been specified.
A home is being built for a veteran at 2768 Lomelina Lane in Tuscan Lakes. Council voted to waive all City related building and impact fees as an honor to the veteran, pending of course, the legalities involved.
It was announced that the League City Chamber will be hosting a Candidates Forum on April 7 or 9, here in Ciouncil Chambers.
The joint meeting of P&Z, ZBA, and the Historic District Commission scheduled for March 17, has been rescheduled April 21st.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:39.
Next week is Spring Break for CCISD students! Hooray for Daylight Savings Time! Enjoy!
Mayor Toni Randall
Monday, March 9, 2009
The League City two face step
I have been informed that Chris Samuelson (as predicted) has dropped out of the race and at the last second Pat Hallisey (The "Sybil" of the old League City blog) has entered the race. Comments anyone ?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Candidates
2009 League City City Council Races
Position 3
Position 4
Comments?
- (I) Thomas Cones
- Mick Phalen
Position 4
- Mike Lee
- Pat Halisey
- (I)Phyllis Sanborn
- Dustin Gooding
- Ed Station
Comments?
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Remember The Bridge! ...or... Marc Edleman versus Reality
For those who don't know the story, a few years ago the city of League City reneged on its promise to allow TxDOT to repair the bridge that connected the two parts of the Glen Cove neighborhood. This action was taken solely for the benefit of a developer with connections to key figures in city government. It was done in a deliberately disguised manner without informing the affected residents and in a legally questionable manner that has resulted in a lawsuit against the city.
As a classic and particularly egregious example of abusive and untrustworthy government, it has become one among many points of embarrasment for the city in recent years and therefore a point of discussion in local political matters, such as the upcoming city council races.
Because P&Z board member Marc Edelman seems to wish to direct all recent discussion on this blog to the topic of the bridge in a vain effort to defend the inexcusable actions of the city in this affair, this thread has been started with the stated purpose of being entirely dedicated to the topic of the Glen Cove bridge. All such discussion is welcome here. Anybody who is bored by this topic is welcome to ignore this and move on to other threads.
For the sake of continuity, here are the recent threads which diverged into discussion of the bridge:
Remember The Bridge!
Jeff Hagen
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
City Candidate Forum in Glen Cove Park
The residents of Glen Cove will be hosting a forum for the candidates in the upcoming city council elections to introduce themselves and meet the residents of our neighborhood. This will be an informal gathering in our neighborhood park starting at 6:00 PM on Monday, March 9th. All currently announced council candidates have agreed to participate and hopefully all other candidates who may yet come forward will also do so. Each candidate will be given an equal opportunity to speak and to take questions from the residents and other candidates. We will also attempt to make a recording of the event available on the internet for all interested voters.
We held a similar forum last year which helped to considerably increase the voter participation from our neighborhood. Hopefully other neighborhoods will also have similar opportunities, but we would like to invited any interested residents from across the city to join us for this event and share in the opportunity to get to know more about the candidates before going to the polls. (It would help to have some idea of the level of participation to expect, so an indication of your intention to attend would be beneficial.)
The park is located at:
Glen Cove park
Jeff Hagen
We held a similar forum last year which helped to considerably increase the voter participation from our neighborhood. Hopefully other neighborhoods will also have similar opportunities, but we would like to invited any interested residents from across the city to join us for this event and share in the opportunity to get to know more about the candidates before going to the polls. (It would help to have some idea of the level of participation to expect, so an indication of your intention to attend would be beneficial.)
The park is located at:
Glen Cove park
Jeff Hagen