Flathead Beacon | Comments

By James on 05-12-08

$332,000 ??  Again I ask THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS??  Was it not just last month and even in todays interlake that we read about the $1,000,000 budget shortfall for this coming fiscal year?  What about the other million dollars (that is $1,000,000.00) that JIM PATRICK lost in the over budget largesse of the new city hall?  The city is currently facing exhaustive budget cuts, layoffs and a fiscal nightmare on the brink of the economic slowdown and they have the audacity to purchase .55 acres for $332,000.00?  They only one to stand up for us appears to be Kluesner.  This makes me so angry that I can’t even write straight!  Unbelievable.  How can the good people of Kalispell sit back and say nothing, do nothing?!  The council and city manager are screaming broke and yet look at what they are doing.  I hope all of you remember this come election time.  I especially would like to see some serious evaluation of how this was justified and done.

By Citizen Again on 05-12-08

I wrote this last time they discussed the airport land, so here it is again:  Perhaps it just didn’t stick!

I was reading in the papers just last week about the city being ONE MILLION DOLLARS over budget for the fiscal year having to make possible cuts as well as also having lost ONE MILLION DOLLARS of unexpected costs in the Wells Fargo Building turned new city hall!  This combines to TWO MILLION dollars ladies and gentlemen.  They lost this significant amount of taxpayer monies and have the audacity to state they are looking to purchase land to expand the little city airport, which happens to only benefit approximately 70 people/customers of it?  With who’s money Mr. Patrick, do you plan on buying this land?  Also, we have all read of Jim Patricks long term goal to bring in twin engine planes to the city airport as well as UPS and FED-EX flights with twin engines.  This means more noise in west side neighborhoods, more pollution, (aircraft are the leading producers of carbond emissions secondary to transportation), and lower real estate values for those effected by the airports grotesque expansion.  In Monterey California, such a thing was done.  The city then was sued by the citizens and forced to retro-fit every household effected with more insulation and thicker windows and doors.  I know because my aunt was one of the citizens.  Also, have any of you ever been in a neighborhood at the base of a runway or near a large airport?  There is a thin black soot and film that collects on everything outside.  Your yard, your cars, your roof.  It is pure pollution emitted from the exhaust of the aircraft taking off and landing.  Please resist this citizens!  As I have said before FIRE JIM PATRICK NOW!

I thought it most important to place my last comments about the great and illustrious city manager.  Just FIRE Jim Patrick before he sells the city to all the out of state billionaires who wish to colonize Kalispell and the flathead as if it were some oil rich foreign nation.  Mr. Patrick is not from here, does not plan on staying or putting roots in here and it shows in his treatment of our city, its’ employees and the city budget.  He is systemmatically destroying the city of Kalispell and all potential it once held.  Voice your concerns today, do some independant research, attend council meetings and let the elected officials know that Jim Patrick must go immediately.  I assure you all, the longer he is running the city of Kalispell the more corrupted the city government will become.  Just have a talk with his past employers sometime over in Vermillion, South Dakota.  We the citizens must restore the community our families struggled to build here.  It is incumbant upon all citizens to immediately voice there concern over the pitiable fiscal irresponsibility of Jim Patrick and the gross negligence in the managing of multiple city departments.  Employee retention in multiple city departments is increasingly worsenning, as well as the moral of the vast majority of city employees due to Jim Patricks “My way or the Highway” stryle of management.  If you have a friend or family member that works for any city department, just ask them and see what they have to say.  Take a look around at the struggling and failing infrastructure of this city.  Look at the $2,000,000.00 that he squandered, misapproprated and “lost” causing the current budget crunch.  Although no media in this town has the gaul to properly touch upon these issues or practice true journalism and investigate and EXPOSE the tiered corruption and manipulation of this city government, it is the duty of some of us who call Kalispell home to try.

The Honorable Pamela B. Kennedy
Mayor
120 Sunset Court
Home: 755-8941

Ward I
Robert Hafferman
1337 Third Street West
Home: 752-1341

Kari Gabriel
312 Northridge Drive
Home: 257-4122

Ward II
Hank Olson
485 2nd Avenue East North
Home: 755-5559
Wayne Saverud
160 Buffalo Stage
Home: 257 - 4018

Ward III
Jim Atkinson
1237 Fifth Street West
Home: 756-1102 Randy Kenyon
403 Seventh Avenue West
Home: 257-4362
Mail: PO Box 3312

Ward IV
Tim Kluesner
1211 Fifth Avenue East
Home: 756-5177 M. Duane Larson
1111 Eighth Avenue East
Home: 755-6376

By Randall C. H. on 05-12-08

Vote’em out.  Each and every one should just get voted out next election!  That manager position should be elected, not hired.  If he was elected, we could just FIRE HIM next election!