August 29, 2011
Sac City, Iowa - Tonight’s Sac City Planning and Zoning meeting can be summed up in one word: Pointless. In one hour and six minutes, the Sac City Planning and Zoning board, led by Shirley Phillips decided to do one single thing. Take legal action against Willy Osborne at the end of November, 2011 if he doesn’t get a roof put on the property of the building across from the courthouse on State street. (They didn't know the address.)
The rest of the meeting was essentially one long bitch session aimed at the city council and the fact that when members of the planning and zoning board recommend that the city tear a building down, it doesn’t get done. The funny thing is, for the last two years the Sac City council has given the P & Z board money to tear houses down and has waited patiently for recommendations. Recommendations that have never come.
It gets even funnier when you consider that the money that was budgeted for tearing houses down in the general fund goes away at the end of the fiscal year unless a Trust and Agency fund is created, which the Planning and Zoning board has failed to do.
Remember how I said the meeting was pointless? At this point you are probably saying to yourself, “but what about that whole ‘legal action against the guy with the roof’ thing? Surely that isn’t pointless?” Yeah, here’s how that’s going to go. They will take the guy to court, the judge will boot it and give him 30 or 90 more days, and it will be right back in the laps of the P&Z board in Januaryish 2012.
The next meeting is set for October 3, 2011.
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