Comments on: New Residential Project Moves to Council http://annarborchronicle.com/2013/03/23/new-residential-project-moves-to-council/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-residential-project-moves-to-council it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Vivienne Armentrout http://annarborchronicle.com/2013/03/23/new-residential-project-moves-to-council/comment-page-1/#comment-230372 Vivienne Armentrout Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:01:12 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=108732#comment-230372 Re (1) and we are also apparently sending three other people. If at the same rate, that is $6,000 for a single conference.

Have we as a city really examined travel policy lately? I understand the value of professional conferences in the education of the individuals concerned, but I wonder whether in a time we don’t have the recommended bare minimum police force we shouldn’t look at the total spent on staff travel. And what about council? At one time the DDA was sending lots of people to IDA conferences. That is how we got Boulder, Boulder all the time.

(Yes, I went to commissioner conferences early in my tenure on the BOC at taxpayers’ expense, but stopped after a while.) (I also went to Michigan planning conferences, but at my own expense.)

]]> By: Jim Rees http://annarborchronicle.com/2013/03/23/new-residential-project-moves-to-council/comment-page-1/#comment-229365 Jim Rees Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:53:05 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=108732#comment-229365 It’s great that the new restaurant will have covered bicycle parking, but does the City have any plans for making it possible to get there on a bike?

]]> By: James D'Amour http://annarborchronicle.com/2013/03/23/new-residential-project-moves-to-council/comment-page-1/#comment-229028 James D'Amour Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:24:33 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=108732#comment-229028 $1500.00? That’s a lot of money to be spent in one place for one individual. That being said, I’m sure it’s a worthwhile conference. However, with several years at least in the past with parks facilities threatened w/closure and continuing discussion of shortfalls in essential services, if this was important a conference to Mr. Westphal for him to attend, he would perhaps have budgeted for it from his personal resources, not the city.

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