Middletown Chamber of Commerce

Very interesting that you should inject that about property values.  There are a number of contributors to declining property value, looking like a used car dealership being one of them..  But, a decline in public safety can sharply reduce property value in the most physically attractive neighborhoods.  Since finding this site, I have painfully observed that Bellemeade has a great number of public safety issues (suspicious activity, traffic problems, inadequate police protection, slick streets, loss of power, vacant houses) with no real solutions.  From what I have read, there is way too much dialogue about these issues and no real attempts to find acceptable solutions.  Maybe Bellemeade should not be a separate city since it appears to not have the assets or will to manage the public safety issues.

Actually we have been addressing these issues and continue to do so.

The speed humps and Neighborhood watch are examples of doing just that.

Metro provides our police protection and always has. They do patrol and answer quickly when we call them. 

 

Loss of power is a metro wide LG&E problem not just Bellemeade.

The only thing that would change if we disolved the city and became just part of Metro would be that our taxes would go up and individuals would have to arrange for their own trash pick up. I have driven down many metro side streets after snow and ice and found them just as slick.

 

I invite you to come to a city commission meeting. I always give citizens in attendance a chance to speak up. The speed humps on North Chadwick and Bellemeade happened because citizens came to a meeting a petitioned the commission. We may not move as fast or do as much as some would like but we do take the good of the community to heart. Your city government is completely volunteer neither my self or the commissioners are paid for what we do.

Frankly Sir, your response strikes me as quite hollow and self-serving.  You invited me to come to one of your meetings that you have once a month?  What about problems between those meetings; are we in limbo for 30 days every month?  I hate to admit it, but I was so unaware of what is really going on in Bellemeade. 

 

I don't think you measured my comments very carefully.  You seemed to lay blame elsewhere in your response and that is what I read from your responses to various concerns tendered by residents. The fact that you are still addressing some of those issues was exactly my point.  They have been "addressed" far too long with no viable solutions. 

 

From what I already knew and from what I read on here, the police responses are governed by the time of day and by the location of available officers.  This police district is extremely large in square miles and undermanned for whatever reason. Further, I was unaware that we had Neighborhood Watch until I read it on here, but you list it as an accomplishment?  Was there ever any answer to the problem with the suspicious van?  Nothing was ever posted on here.

 

You spoke of speed humps as one of your accomplishments, but even by your own admission, there is still dangerous speeding on North Chadwick.  Are you telling me that those residents on that street are wrong in asking for action? What are they, ungrateful whiners?  They should be glad they have what they already have, huh? 

 

Why are you so defensive in your comments to people, downright condescending in some.  It bothers me that we have been spending tax money to improve private property.  It appears that Bellemeade paid a lot of money to an agronomist to evaluate trees on private property and to residents to maintain or replace trees on their privately held property.  But yet, you don't have enough money to salt the slick streets, hire additional police patrols,  or put enough speed humps on dangerous streets? Sir, I question your priorities and I do not need to come to a council meeting to do it.  Something is wrong here. You take the good of the community to heart, try taking the comments of these concerned citizens to heart and stop governing by your own predetermined set of priorities or by the way "it has always been done."

 

 

 

I didn't see your name on the ballot Mr Wm Tell.   Change and "action" doesn't happen over night.  If you want to do a better job then what's being done, feel free to run for a commissioner spot next time one opens up.

 

I'm soooo sick and tired of the "pot stirrers" that don't have any solutions, and only want to start finger pointing, and sit back and say "everyone else isn't doing enough".......

 

Speed humps just can't be added again without proper notification to residents.

 

The Mayor and Commissioners have been looking into patrols for safety, but again...it takes time to weight the options, and put it to a vote of the people, and residents.

 

As far as slick streets....duh it's WINTER..... it ususally only last a day or two; for crying out loud this isn't MI when all the neighborhood streets have to be salted.  Because then again, in the SPRING everyone will be complain that the roads are damaged, and need to be repaved... Have you seen what salt does to the roads? 

 

Furthermore, if you have ever read the newsletters that go out to each and every resident, you would have know about the website a long time ago. 

 

And, have you ever seen a subdivision in say ~ Okolona, that doesnt' have a no parking on the grass ordinance?  We'd like to be a little bit better then that.