Seeman and Cole Want Video Now?

Town Council always cry about the budget; however, they always seem to come up with money for THEIR projects. I remember how TC would always approve any new toy for Mr. King without winking an eye. Mr. King was the biggest loser of an employee; yet, the town never seemed to question what he could do or what he couldn't do. Mr. King spent more time saying no to the town and to citizens. The town seem to have money to keep this employee employed.

with all the recent mcmansion construction, the town must be ROLLING in property tax revenue. where's it going???

Why are these people all about sound bites and not about solutions???

Yes, Laurie, getting Town government into the bin buying and distribution business is a make-work, waste time and money idea... thanks for that! Solving problems shouldn't always require more overhead... unless you're intellectually lazy. It does require new approaches. If bins are better, then let residents use their own bins... any bin that meets a reasonable Town bin spec... like a trash can of any color.

Video streams... like you stream Town of Vienna Public Notices ONE ANNOYING TEXT CHARACTER AT A TIME??? Oh please don't wait for the Town's IT department to stream video... life is too short. Just broadcast all Town Meetings over cable... just turn it on and go... there are plenty of people around who can set this up for the Town today without inserting unnecessary IT department dependencies.

Hybrid cars proposal? I missed that! Who did that study? I am not convinced that hybrid vehicles are a solution. All of the energy generated in a hybrid car comes from fossil fuels... gasoline. The improvement in fuel economy (if realized!) comes through the efficiency of electric motors and regenerative braking. But hybrids require batteries and their costly vehicle subsystems, and very energy intensive and polluting mining and smelting of battery metals. Hybrid fuel economy may look attractive, but payback on investment can exceed 10 years for consumer use, and nobody wants to buy a used hybrid since this infant technology is rapidly evolving. Worse, hybrid fuel economy does NOT consider the total energy and pollution costs of bringing hybrid technology to market... currently a very very small market of 1-2%. So, Laurie, like your blue bins proposal, you fail to do your homework... or did you mean alternative fuels such as natural gas?

If you really want to make a difference, stop drinking bottled water... now there's a totally unnecessary waste of energy and source of enviromental pollution from the fossil fuel consumed trucking water around to the caps and bottles littering our woodlands, streams, costal waterways, and landfills.

Here's another simple assignment for you, Laurie... get rid of the Town vehicle registration decal. Fairfax County did it, why can't you? Just think of all the time and trouble everybody will save every year by not having to make decals, transport decals, remove decals, apply decals, and stand around on street corners spying decals when more worthwhile police work could be accomplished, like looking out for bank robbers via video surveillance.

Here's another energy and pollution saver for you, Laurie. Institute a Town Special Dropoff at the Mill Street property yard. Instead of sending Town crews around in a fleet of heavy vehicles to pickup a handful of junk that has been sitting in our neighborhoods for weeks, let residents bring their small junk over to a dumpster stationed at the property yard. A Special Dropoff would accommodate a significant portion of the Town special pickup requests by allowing residents to get it done immediately, saving the Town time and money, and helping to cleanup our neighborhoods. Need an incentive? Reduce the Special Pickups to one free per year, and make the Special Dropoffs free. A lot of the crap people put out could go in a can, but they just dump it all at once in pile and there it sits, week after week all over our Town, because the Town Special Pickup policy encourages this.

Think green, not dumb, Laurie! Formulate policy to shift the cost burden of un-green behavior away from our tax dollars and back onto the backs of consumers who all must eventually think and act green.

Yours truly,

Well now Frustrated we are paying for Mr.King's pension-along with his pension from Fairfax.

Is it election time folks?? Both Brehony and Stich have brought up video-taping ALL the meetings. If you don't elect them the tape will be on the cutting room floor. Let's not let that happen.

Could someone please explain video-screening and how it will be delivered? I am guessing that it is selective release of portions of town meetings.

>>Could someone please explain video-screening and how it will be delivered?

It's streaming, not screening. Media streaming implies digital data transmission over a digital communication medium in time such that the media can be played (viewed/heard) as it is being received and before it is fully transmitted. It's an improvement over having to send/receive the whole content before being able to play it. It typically means audio/video broadcasting over the Internet, not broadcast TV over the air or cable. Of course, I could be wrong on all of that.

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This is brilliant (seriously). I can't count how many times I've had a pile sit in front of my home for 2 weeks before a pick up. We have a flatbed truck and would have no problem driving 3 blocks down the road to drop off stuff on Mill. That would save the town time & energy. Driving all the way out to Ox Road to the dump is tricky with a flatbed full of stuff.

Interesting to note that this news, reported by Brian Trompeter, names the names. So Seeman wants video now supposedly and Trompeter has no problem writing that, but when he witnesses TC members propose to BAN video, he refuses to name names. This guy is a hack. He is simply a dishonest, agenda-driven Maud apologist posing as a low level journalist. And, yes, he probably considers that "derogatory".

>>So Seeman wants video now supposedly

Incumbants that can't run on their record can't be trusted when they speak to the future.

I believe it was in high school if not earlier we were taught how to read a newspaper. The first instance was that since they are politically biased you had to read various newspapers to get a balanced understanding. Local newspapers generally strive for one article per publication on Vienna and most avoid being confrontational. They need the stories to carry their advertisements which is where the money in publishing is. They know on which side their bread is buttered.

If you want to see what Vienna can have for less than $1000/month, look here:

http://naples.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=4

The Cable companies are GIVING Vienna over $18,000 a month for this, and all is costs is $900/month, and they say we can't afford it. Why?

>>The Cable companies are GIVING Vienna over $18,000 a month for this, and all is costs is $900/month, and they say we can't afford it. Why?

Exactly! Seeman should run on her record. Ask her to show us the money... OUR money. That money is coming from you and me from the way over-priced fees being paid for cable service. Where's that money going, Jane?

>>Here's another simple assignment for you, Laurie... get rid of the Town vehicle registration decal. Fairfax County did it, why can't you?

UPDATE: Town Council voted April 17 to get rid of the decal.

"Town Council voted April 17 to get rid of the decal."

Yeah, but once again they upped our property taxes to cover that loss.