A Bunch of Tight Asses on Jeff City Council ??? Or Moore Politics ???

  What do we have on the Jeffersonville city council a bunch of tight asses ??? or is it more politics as usual ??? Monday night the council delayed the vote on the riverfront "marina" project due to several member's concerns about the cost of the project. Are these councilman truly fiscally conservative or they playing more political games in order to delay one of mayor Mike Moore's pet projects ??? The BatBlog thinks the answer is the latter .... The core of the council that is doing the complaining are Smith, Samuels and councilman Julius (a declared candidate for mayor). Smith and Samuels are part of the earlier council that spent money like drunken sailors under former mayor Galligan and the BatBlog is pretty sure Julius didn't have a problem with the City frittering away over a million bucks on the lousy ass landscaping job along Hwy. 62, that benefited his business.

 With several of mayor Moore's projects  coming to fruition like the Big Four Landing, and Gateway hotel project, it appears that the mayor's political enemies have made a consorted effort to either stop or delay the projects in anticipation of next years mayoral election.

Mike "Tightwad" Smith

The riverfront is one of the prime assets of the city and right now it is a dilapidated embarrassment. Whether you avail yourself or not of the boat docks or planned fishing pier the riverfront is one of the gateways to the city  and the aesthetics to this area are vital. Pleasant and beautiful landscaping and appearance will go a long way to attracting visitors who will spend money at local businesses. Louisville has wisely spent multi millions on their riverfront and the transformation is amazing and is money well spent.

Meanwhile our city council wants to remain in the dark ages sitting on their wallets, complaining and generally holding up progress. How many millions did we spend on the canal planning and engineering that was washed right down the proverbial drain. It's time for this council to get off their collective asses and approve this project. They should even expand it to include all the features originally wanted (multiple permanent and transient boat docks, fishing pier, landscape development) no matter what the cost. It would be the smart thing to do, but that would be a stretch when you look at some of the members we have on the council...

A voice of reason on a somewhat lost City council

A voice of reason in this issue was councilman Bryan Glover who said the council needs to be careful limiting what the city is allowed to do on this project he also stated the city of Jeffersonville is fortunate in the fact to have 3 gateways into the city and we need to do it right the first time...

Truer words were never more said.....kudos to Bryan Glover for telling it like it is...