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<DIV>Perhaps butt cracks are ABs new non-lethal weapon for crowd control, the crowd sees it and quickly moves on. Or maybe the mooning is used to increase on campus lighting at a lower cost. </DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 3/31/11, Saundra Lund <I><v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Saundra <SPAN>Lund</SPAN> <v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 9:50 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those fine<BR>hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow<BR>actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt. Ordinance 2002-13.<BR><BR>In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's "cleft of the buttocks" on<BR>the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful. But, it was horrifyingly<BR>close & *very* unprofessional. And it ***definitely*** wasn't a positive<BR>reflection on the UI.<BR><BR>OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years, and they<BR>always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which<BR>apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.<BR><BR>I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm> decision to<BR>hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated. I can't<BR>say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be
the case at the UI:<BR>things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more, especially when<BR>it comes to contracts with the private sector. In the past, I found it very<BR>easy to deal with the UI with respect to public records requests, but that's<BR>unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General<BR>Counsel. Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records<BR>requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI contracts out<BR>so much of its legal work, but making access to public records difficult if<BR>not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers<BR>remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are actually<BR>saving money or losing it.<BR><BR>So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability following the<BR>deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement. Seriously, though,<BR>Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was
going to last longer than a New York<BR>minute.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Saundra Lund<BR>Moscow, ID<BR><BR>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<BR>nothing.<BR>~ Edmund Burke<BR><BR>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2011 through life plus<BR>70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside<BR>the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the<BR>author.*****<BR><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
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