Election Rant

Wow it has been far too long since I visited you all. Lets catch up on a few things; 1. I will truly miss Mr Clark and his infectious personality. The City has lost a true Councilor and steward. Folks I will not tell you how to vote nor will I tell you how I voted. I just remind you that our water bills are higher than our electric bills, we have now been FORCED to swallow this cannery project, which BTW will probably be the undoing of the 17th greatest place to live. We have seen red light cameras that our police chief had to state on the ARCHER that it is for safety and not revenue generation. All I can say is PANTS ON FIRE!!!!! If the city wanted to keep anyone safe they would never have built those horrible eyesores on the corners of old town. Besides being horribly ugly they also block drivers views and are darn unsafe. Instead of red light camera's, maybe Van Cameras in our school zones. now that would be good for the safety of our children. Lastly we have Sherwood Broadband and the City Manager, both need to go. Both cost us too much money and only serve a small portion of our fair city. Remember this when casting your vote for the folks who have brought all this misuse of our hard earned dollars, and back office deals that only benefit themselves. The same folks who promised the kids a skate park and then set it up for failure so it could not happen. Shame on you all. Remember City of Sherwood, we are watching and voting. Mr manager resign resign resign, before you end up in jail or disgraced. Ta Ta

Robin

Folow up and something new

Hello fellow citizens of the forest, SO now it seems that not only has he lied but you can't even find his article on the Sherwood Gazette's web page. I guess even they don't want to print it anymore. One other thing of note, I am now going through the new Dog rules and fee schedule. Can anyone say income generation and selective enforcement? They claim it is a complaint driven fine. Wow that is their version of if we don't like you, we will claim there was a complaint and fine you. I have a friend who was hammered by the Police in Old Town for parking more than 2 hours and he was the only one to get a ticket. Even though a City Councilor was parked even longer. The City Manager and the Chief claimed it was complaint driven. I say it was illegal, unfair, and downright dirty. This is also being brought to you by the same folks that have stated in the press that the red light camera's are for income generation and then traffic safety. How much longer are we going to put up with the shifty back office business deals and lies coming out of the City Hall? Remember November is on the horizon and time for some real change. Remember Sherwood City Hall, we are watching!!!! Ta Ta

Robin

WOW Transparency from City Manager

HI fellow residents of Sherwood. By now everyone has gotten a copy of the Gazette or the Archer and saw the wonderful article written by our City Manager talking about his pay and transparency in the city, oh yeah and earning our trust ROFLMAO. I figured what the heck I will follow his link to the budget and salaries. Now if you go to page 105 of the 2010-2011 budget and scroll to the bottom of the page you will see City Manager/ City Recorder/Municipal Judge and if you look closely it says contract employees and no salary!!! Big surprise there!! so much for transparency. Sir your a liar and not even a very good one. But we will get to that in a moment. Scroll back up the page to the first entry Admin Asst III - Confidential, now who the heck is that I ask? How is anything in this city confidential? Are they hiding something? Probably, You ask us in your article to trust you, and your cronies. Not going to happen sir, in fact I and a few others are going to be on you like the sticky side of tape. you have stolen from us, cheated us, fee'd us to death. your only recourse at this point is to resign immediately and pray you can get a way clean. your mis-management of this city is borderline criminal. Your a liar and a thief. Shame on you!!! WE ARE WATCHING!!! TA TA

ROBIN

Coucil Seats and Mayor

Good Saturday Morning all, So it seems that now is time to make changes, The Mayor and a few council seat are up for grabs. Time for change means voting out the folks who have constantly allowed our money to be wasted and bring fresh faces in. If we can make a small change in the thought process of our council then maybe our fair city stands a chance. Stop the bleeding of our hard earned tax dollars. One has already dropped out of the race, makes you wonder why? Lets talk Sherwood Broadband for a moment as it is one of the biggest waste of time a resources. First i did a little searching at the Corporation division, interesting enough Jim Patterson is the Authorized representative for Sherwood Broadband. Now that is not a bad thing as he is the City Manager. But it does make him responsible for the actions of the "company". So in digging a little deeper we find that PROSTRUCTURE CONSULTING maintains the network and there is only the top official listed. Now think for a moment when you visit the Sherwood Broadband website and click on the Coverage button you get a neat little map that shows the area of coverage. I had to find out the total number of households covered so I again went to the trusty internet and to a site called portlandmaps.com. I carefully counted the total number of houses for our "FREE" service and lo and behold it came to a whopping 250 homes!!!!! At 1 million a year that is a cost to the city of $4,000 per year!!!! think about this little folly when you vote in November!!! Ta Ta

Robin

City Streets

So today I was walking in old town and lo and behold they are tearing up the street. Now that is a good thing and a bad thing. The good part is that they are fixing the sewers on Washington St. At least when I look at my water bill I can be happy that those fees went to something constructive. I also noted that they are tearing up our million dollar granite blocks that were breaking apart from the first 30 days they were installed. They look nice but the design was flawed from the beginning. Just ask em and they will tell you. So ok we are working to make our city look better, I can agree with that. Then the guy who was doing the replacement tells another guy that it really doesn't make any difference as the city plans to tear them up next year!!! Holy Cow!!! So we the tax payers are paying for these repairs again on a design that was flawed from the beginning only to have it torn up next year and replaced by the right kind of materials? Can anyone explain the logic on this adventure in wasteful spending? Oh yeah and one more thing, hold on your gonna love this.... better sit down though... it was OUR city architect who designed this flawed project and held the contractor to the inferior materials used...... Even though the contractor told the city that is was the wrong materials. This fiasco was brought to you by the same people that are still running our city and want to tell the contractor how to build the cannery project. Enough is enough! go to the city council meetings and tell them you have had enough!!! One more thing Mr Patterson (yes i am using your name) your time is limited here, we are watching and waiting for you to make a big mistake and then you are gonna be gone. Your and all your cohorts need to go. I am sure when you read this you will laugh but I remind you of one thing, If you or anyone of your employees mis-appropriated 1 dollar of federal money you are going to jail. I heard a vicious rumor that the federal government is very interested in your dealings with their money. If I were you I would resign now and run like your predecessor did. Ta Ta.... We are watching

Robin

Robin Hood

Robin has been taking some much needed time off. He will be back shortly sticking it to our elected and paid officials here in Sherwood. I know Robin would love nothing better than to write about nothing but good things about our fair city and can't wait till that day comes. Robin just wants the City to come clean and transparent with their handling of our hard earned tax dollars. his disdain starts when there are people in charge of our city that are not qualified for the jobs they hold and then collect a huge salary on top of it. We here in the forest are not angry about spending money to improve our fair city or even new projects, we just want them done without a hidden agenda. We support more money to our schools, POLICE, and services, just don't line your pockets with it. Remember in just a few weeks our children will be returning to another school year, Drive slowly in our school zones and keep our kids safe. If not our friends in blue will be writing you a hefty ticket.

Little John

School Update

Congratulations to the Sherwood teachers for getting our schools off the Troubled List Although the High School is still on the troubled list, it has shown enough improvement to no longer be watched. This is all under the "no child left behind" law. The dropout rate is still Alarming,we can improve upon that with time. Thank you Sherwood teachers!!! You and the kids deserve the Kudos for this accomplishment. Ta Ta

Robin