<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Donovan,<div><br></div><div>The puddles are NOT the issue. The issue is the lack over oversight on taxpayer funded projects done by the city and / or outside contractors! The puddles are just the canaries in the coal mines, and show that there </div><div>is a problem</div><div><br></div><div>WMP<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>You know you have run out of things to do when you start complaining in writing about puddles in downtown.. </div> <div> </div> <div>Just watch, next summer the same people will be complaining about how there isn't enough water. </div> <div> </div> <div>When it rains, it pours. : P</div> <div> </div> <div>Your Friend,</div> <div> </div> <div>Donovan Arnold</div> <div> </div> <div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 12/16/09, Tom Hansen <i><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><br>From: Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MPD Press Release - Alcohol Citations<br>To: "Art Deco" <<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a>><br>Cc: "Vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 1:17 AM<br><br> <div class="plainMail">Wayne stated:<br><br>"That pool of ankle deep water at the corner where One World is must be<br>intended to be the community winter wading pool. It would be hard to<br>believe that competent engineers would have designed it for any other<br>purpose."<br><br>Wayne . . .<br><br>Are we talking about the same "competent engineers" that put the Park<br>Village Apartments and <span>Ghormley</span> Parkin the middle of a flood plain . . .<br><br><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_01.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_01.jpg</a><br><br><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_02.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_02.jpg</a><br><br><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_03.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_03.jpg</a><br><br><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_04.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1996_Flood_04.jpg</a><br><br>On the other hand, though . . .<br><br>Had this flood not happened until 2008 (when <span>UI</span> was experiencing severe<br>financial problems), the rent would have doubled as a result of recently<br>developed lake front property.<br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br>Former tenant of Park Village Apartments<br><br>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br><br>- Unknown<br><br><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> mailto:<a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br> =======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>