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and Ruby endorsed Cranley

 

As we know, Ruby is an ardent streetcar opponent and is miffed that Cranley didn't kill it.  But would he have located his namesake restaurant at 7th and Walnut were it not for the multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded Aronoff Center for the Performing Arts right across the street?  I doubt it.

 

The streetcar project might be going out of its way to park equipment in front of his restaurant.  Right now there are no less than two pieces of heavy equipment and a graffiti-covered trailer idled right outside his patio. 

 

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  • taestell
    taestell

    It was also revealed recently that the 56% of the city's streets are in fair, poor, or worse condition. There was only a 1 percentage point improvement in road quality from 2016 to 2017. So Cranley's

  • ryanlammi
    ryanlammi

    He spent 6+ months to say the finalists are his acting city manager and his assistant city manager? Wow. EDIT: And if they aren't approved, they are still in that position.

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Man that's kinda dirty if true. The goal of that would be to park the stuff there just long enough to force him out then let the new tenant take advantage of the foot traffic and visibility generated by the streetcar.

Update: today they had the street torn up at his corner, making all kinds of noise.  I hope it continues deep into the night. 

Interim City Manager rearranges the deck chairs with 'advice' from the captain.

Fishwarp summary

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20140114/NEWS010801/301140124/City-Hall-shake-up-causes-tremors

An actual article from City Bleat

http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-5424-acting_city_manager_shakes_up_leadership_positions.html

and for you folks with money to burn

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2014/01/14/city-manager-shakes-up-cincinnatis.html

The Memo

http://city-egov.cincinnati-oh.gov/Webtop/ws/fyi/public/fyi_docs/Blob/3159.pdf?rpp=-10&m=1&w=doc_no%3D%272665%27

City Hall shake-up causes tremors

Some council members concerned; calling a special session to discuss 'personnel decisions'

Jan. 14, 2014 

Written by Sharon Coolidge

 

 

New Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley did something Tuesday that most new leaders do – he put his own people in key jobs.

 

That meant shuffling aside Cincinnati City Solicitor John Curp and re-populating the city manager’s office with new assistant managers.

 

Upon seeing the changes, Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, tweeted: “I am growing concerned about the process around critically important city personnel decisions.”

 

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20140114/NEWS010801/301140124/City-Hall-shake-up-causes-tremors

Seems as though Interim City Manager Scott Stiles may be willing to carry Cranley's water.  Sad, if true. 

The question is did Cranley break charter law of interference?

 

Stiles said he had private conversations with cranley about key personnel. 

I'm honestly not too worried if Cranley spoke with Stiles about rearranging personnel in the administration. If Mark Mallory had done the same thing, I would just shrug. I am worried about the way Cranley treats key personnel, but I'm not against him meeting with the city manager about positions even if it is against the charter.

that's a lot of people in interim positions

The question is did Cranley break charter law of interference?

 

Stiles said he had private conversations with cranley about key personnel. 

 

Suppose that he did.  Are there any sort of repercussions for such behavior?

Seems to me that if the City Manager is supposed to make these decisions, having an interim City Manager do it is premature and creates an awkward situation for whoever becomes the permanent pick (where they should be able to choose their staff, but have pressure to stick with the previous picks).

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Political Cocktail with Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley

Kevin Osborne

 

Something new has arrived on WCPO.com! Each Monday, WCPO government & politics reporter Kevin Osborne brings you closer than ever with your local leaders, asking the questions YOU want answered. Please join us each Monday for Political Cocktail, a new weekly video/podcast.

 

CINCINNATI -- Welcome to Political Cocktail, a brief weekly interview show with local politicians and other persons of interest, done over drinks at Japp's Since 1879 in Over-the-Rhine.

 

This week, I interview Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley about what impact the streetcar vote will have on his political clout, how he responds to allegations that he is a tea partier, what should be done about the recent spike in homicides, and more.

 

Watch the interview in the media player above.

"It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton

what the hell is up with that music?

"As I learned with the streetcar, I can't force council to do what I think is the right thing to do."  - John Cranley.

 

I'm so glad that he learned this lesson. 

"As I learned with the streetcar, I can't force council to do what I think is the right thing to do."  - John Cranley.

 

I'm so glad that he learned this lesson. 

 

Very sad he didn't know that beforehand!

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Where is Cincinnati getting all this money to add Police and Firefighters the past week or so???

Where is Cincinnati getting all this money to add Police and Firefighters the past week or so???

 

Probably going to eliminate entire city departments, like Charlie Luken did. 

Word on the street is that he will propose to eliminate the city's Planning Dept. Office of Environmental Sustainability and vastly shrink the law department.

 

The catch?

 

Doing that will only provide half of the revenue needed to enact the police and fire proposals Cranley has been touting over the past few weeks.

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Word on the street is that he will propose to eliminate the city's Planning Dept. Office of Environmental Sustainability and vastly shrink the law department.

 

Seriously?  I think we need those things way more than we need a few more cops and firefighters.

Can council block his attempts to eliminate those city departments?

Council would have to vote on these plans.

 

When the Planning Dept. was eliminated in 2002 it was done so through the budget process.

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

The Mayor has no power to make any changes. Five councilmembers have all the power. Lobby your councilmembers; they're already ticked he keeps proposing these police and fire plans with discussing it with them (see PG's tweets).

What a little weasel. Cranley knows there’s no money to pay for more police and fire, but he’ll still propose them and try to make council members who vote against them look bad.

 

Meanwhile, the street I live on still hasn’t been plowed, and last week was the third time this winter my trash/recycling wasn’t picked up at all. Wasn’t doing the little things like picking up trash one of Cranley’s big campaign ideas? Combine that with the simple statistic that murder is up nearly 300% so far this year – the Enquirer and WLW should be having a field day with this guy.

 

What a little weasel. Cranley knows theres no money to pay for more police and fire, but hell still propose them and try to make council members who vote against them look bad.

 

Meanwhile, the street I live on still hasnt been plowed, and last week was the third time this winter my trash/recycling wasnt picked up at all. Wasnt doing the little things like picking up trash one of Cranleys big campaign ideas? Combine that with the simple statistic that murder is up nearly 300% so far this year the Enquirer and WLW should be having a field day with this guy.

 

 

Zack, I live a block away from you and can confirm your claim.  No, the street has not been salted or plowed since last week's storm, and yes the trash pickup has been spotty.  What's more, there are times at night when I see police cruisers around every bend in the neighborhood.  The police are patrolling the area like crazy.  It's hard to imagine that 5% more police out cruising around is going to put any dent in street crime. 

 

 

 

^I saw that website a few days ago and decided not to post it because it is pretty outdated. The data is all from 2010. That's almost 4 years old now and staffing levels and population levels have changed quite a bit since that time. I could probably figure out the ratio Cincinnati is at now, but it would take a long time to look up the other city information

Here is my gripe about the way this city dispatches firefighters.  Ever notice that whenever an ambulance/EMT arrives for any medical emergency (heart attack, etc.) a ladder truck also shows up?  This happens every single time.  Why do we need a ladder truck for medical emergencies?  Watch closely next time you see this.  The EMT goes and tends to the medical emergency and the firefighters show up in their ladder truck and do nothing.

 

My guess is that there is a provision in the firefighter CBA that states that they have to be called whenever an ambulance is dispatched.  This greatly jacks up the number of calls they get and justifies their jobs. 

 

I have nothing against cops or firefighters, I just think that we have too damn many of them. 

Here is my gripe about the way this city dispatches firefighters.  Ever notice that whenever an ambulance/EMT arrives for any medical emergency (heart attack, etc.) a ladder truck also shows up?  This happens every single time.  Why do we need a ladder truck for medical emergencies?  Watch closely next time you see this.  The EMT goes and tends to the medical emergency and the firefighters show up in their ladder truck and do nothing.

 

My guess is that there is a provision in the firefighter CBA that states that they have to be called whenever an ambulance is dispatched.  This greatly jacks up the number of calls they get and justifies their jobs. 

 

I have nothing against cops or firefighters, I just think that we have too damn many of them. 

The council brings this up when budget time arrives & the fire fighters tell heart tugging stories of how they needed the additional personnel to do the EMT work. I don't know how common all the personnel is needed, tho.

I don't think we have too many firefighters but they need to be deployed more efficiently.

This is about 8 years old...

12/27/05 @ the Cincinnati Libertarian Blog (defunct)

 

Are more police officers always the answer? Lt Rahtz sites an experiment in Kansas City where the police department there took all of their patrols out of one beat, and sent them to a beat with a similar crime rate (the only time a police officer would enter that beat was when dispatched). So for a time, one beat had twice as much police presence as before, and the other one had virtually none.

 

So, what was the end result? Crime stayed the same in both beats. Police presence had no effect on crime!

 

http://cincinnatilibertarian.blogspot.com/search?q=kansas

Here is my gripe about the way this city dispatches firefighters.  Ever notice that whenever an ambulance/EMT arrives for any medical emergency (heart attack, etc.) a ladder truck also shows up?  This happens every single time.  Why do we need a ladder truck for medical emergencies?  Watch closely next time you see this.  The EMT goes and tends to the medical emergency and the firefighters show up in their ladder truck and do nothing.

 

My guess is that there is a provision in the firefighter CBA that states that they have to be called whenever an ambulance is dispatched.  This greatly jacks up the number of calls they get and justifies their jobs. 

 

I have nothing against cops or firefighters, I just think that we have too damn many of them. 

 

When Greg Harris was on city council, he tried to reform this system. He proposed exactly what you are taking about -- don't send a fire truck if it's only a medical emergency that doesn't involve a...fire.

 

The police and fire unions painted him as anti-cop and anti-firefighther, and he got voted out of office.

Maybe they can train cops and firemen to collect trash and drive snowplows since there's money for them but nobody else.

 

One time last summer I set a demolished barn on fire at our farm and people from the trailer park across the road called the FD. The FD was actually quite efficient since there wasn't any danger to people. First they sent out a pickup truck that had maybe 250 gallons of water. Only when that water ran out did they bother with sending out a big tanker. And there was only 1-2 trucks on site at any given time. I suppose I should have a heart attack if I want the big todoo.

Thanks Governing article for leaving out Columbus, the 15th largest city in the country.

 

In Columbus we have 1300 police for 800,000 people for a ratio of 16.25 per 10K. Why aren't we all dead?

Because we have jobs. People come here to get experience so that they can move to premiere cities. One reason we have so many jobs here is that people here are always leaving but the job still needs done.

^I'm thinking OSU looms large in those numbers as well.

It can't do it on its own though. Even if all 60,000 students claim Columbus, that's still only 8% of the population.

Is Cranley channeling Stalin? I've heard the word 'Control' more in the last 36 hours than I have in the last year. Is he writing the news scripts?

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If he wanted to show some power, he'd start tearing the garage down around them and make the location as "undesirable" as possible! :)

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At 100 days, Cranley still 'in-your-face'

Mayor's style draws stark contrast to his predecessor and, although city government has taken plenty of action early, unfunded pension liabilities and debt issues loom.

 

No one can accuse Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley of slacking.

 

As of Monday, it's been exactly 100 days since he was sworn in – just 3 1/3 months in which City Council killed and then resurrected the streetcar; really killed the parking lease; agreed to hire more cops; and took steps to increase contracts to minority-owned businesses. He got rid of the last city manager before the clock even started ticking on his four-year tenure.

 

Cranley's direct, open style has been a 180-degree shift from predecessor Mark Mallory's behind-the-scenes approach. Just like that, council meetings have gone from tightly controlled performances to verbal free-for-alls.

 

Cont

"It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton

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Rumors are circulating that John Cranley is hiring Kevin Osborne as the city's communication director. If it's true, it would certainly explain a lot of his coverage during the election.

Looks like he changed his Twitter handle from @kevinWCPO to @kevincincinnati ... so I'd say it's pretty much confirmed.

 

Ha.

 

Hires a guy from the media everyone charged with being biased. Settles lawsuits with COAST, filling Finney's pockets with $675k almost immediately after taking office. None of this looks shady at all.

Looks like he changed his Twitter handle from @kevinWCPO to @kevincincinnati ... so I'd say it's pretty much confirmed.

 

Ha.

 

Hires a guy from the media everyone charged with being biased. Settles lawsuits with COAST, filling Finney's pockets with $675k almost immediately after taking office. None of this looks shady at all.

 

 

Yeah Osborne used to write some of the best criticism of those guys, now he's one of them. 

 

 

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