Comments on: Juan Figueroa: City Council Candidate [2009] http://elginite.org/blog/2009/03/13/juan-figueroa-city-council-candidate/ Fri, 18 May 2012 13:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Diva http://elginite.org/blog/2009/03/13/juan-figueroa-city-council-candidate/#comment-46733 Diva Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:44:31 +0000 http://elginite.org/?p=1491#comment-46733 By the way, Mr. Figueroa, one of AFLA's choice of candidates did make the ballot. Mr. Robins came in fourth. Charlene S. came in 5th. I believe the information coming to the surface of her drinking and driving, along with the video that was approved to be shown, wonder who approved it, caused her not to make it. By the way, Mr. Figueroa, one of AFLA’s choice of candidates did make the ballot. Mr. Robins came in fourth. Charlene S. came in 5th. I believe the information coming to the surface of her drinking and driving, along with the video that was approved to be shown, wonder who approved it, caused her not to make it.

]]> By: Kurt http://elginite.org/blog/2009/03/13/juan-figueroa-city-council-candidate/#comment-46493 Kurt Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:49:35 +0000 http://elginite.org/?p=1491#comment-46493 For starters, why did we need to resurface Walnut Avenue with bike lanes? I live in that area and I haven’t seen but about a dozen bikes per month in those bike lanes! Most of the bikes I see on that street are either kids only or parents with kids. I know the law states that bikes are not to be ridden on the sidewalks, but I won’t let my 10-year-old ride her bike on the street with the ruthless traffic we have now-a-day, would you? It did nothing but cut down on the residents of that street to have less places to park and the south side of the street’s residents have to park their cars on the north side and not always in front of their house to where they could feel comfortable being able to watch their personal property. I would also like to know if Figueroa voted for Wing Park Boulevard’s inconvenience. In my eyes that was not only a waste of taxpayer’s money, but more dangerous to drivers on that strip! Concrete is very expensive and there was a lot of concrete poured there, and servicing it in the winter is worse! Who has to clear the snow? Is it the city at more expenses to taxpayers or is it the residents who have to take more time and money to clear that area in front of their homes themselves? Plus it has decreased the width of traveling vehicles when passing parked cars! Myself when I pass a parked car on the side of the road, I want an escape plan! That’s called defensive driving! If there is no oncoming traffic you have the option to shift to the left to avoid someone that is exiting their car that was just parked. You can’t do that with a street island down the whole strip! Lets face it people, how many times have you passed a parked car with someone throwing their door wide open without caring of the traffic coming from behind them? That is an easy law suit!! Second, the condos downtown was a joke! I’m not sure if this is true, but I was told that the city purchased the property by the casino at the taxpayers expense and given to developers to build on it. The condos by the casino and the condos in the old “Downtown Elgin Mall” on Grove Avenue were ready to be lived in before this economic crunch, but are they filled? No!!! Just like the condos on Kimball Street that haven’t been filled for years even with the beautification of that street for the recreation centre! I hate to get started on the recreation centre! Even though it was proven in other communities that it doesn’t work, our council at the time said it will help our economy. It ended up costing our taxpayers to maintain it!! The citizens of Elgin that aren’t on welfare pay out the “butt” to use it, while others get to use it for free! To build a performance hall is just another cost to the taxpayers! WE don’t need to bring in more outside people that will trash our town and leave, or make us taxpayers fork out more money for more police and fire protection that we can’t afford already even though we have the casino! This has been a secured satellite city for years prior to this administration! A city that did not need outsiders to survive! A city that employed its citizens and was structurally sound! I was breed, born and raised in this town for almost 43 years! I have seen this town support itself by working as a community, keeping itself as a unity by everyone working together raising our youth and providing within its community without growing out of control with outsider influence! (Paying hundreds of thousand dollars to advisers) This town has deteriorated by council decisions and it has to stop! We need to spend our money on infrastructure to clean-up this town and make it safe for our own citizens to go downtown, not worry about outsiders, or making our boundaries larger by stealing property (annexing)! We have city buses that can bring even senior citizens to the downtown, but they are afraid to go there! I know this, because I have talked with them! We need to take our city away from politicians that promote growth and give it to us! The people that pay for this town!! For starters, why did we need to resurface Walnut Avenue with bike lanes? I live in that area and I haven’t seen but about a dozen bikes per month in those bike lanes! Most of the bikes I see on that street are either kids only or parents with kids. I know the law states that bikes are not to be ridden on the sidewalks, but I won’t let my 10-year-old ride her bike on the street with the ruthless traffic we have now-a-day, would you? It did nothing but cut down on the residents of that street to have less places to park and the south side of the street’s residents have to park their cars on the north side and not always in front of their house to where they could feel comfortable being able to watch their personal property.

I would also like to know if Figueroa voted for Wing Park Boulevard’s inconvenience. In my eyes that was not only a waste of taxpayer’s money, but more dangerous to drivers on that strip! Concrete is very expensive and there was a lot of concrete poured there, and servicing it in the winter is worse! Who has to clear the snow? Is it the city at more expenses to taxpayers or is it the residents who have to take more time and money to clear that area in front of their homes themselves?
Plus it has decreased the width of traveling vehicles when passing parked cars! Myself when I pass a parked car on the side of the road, I want an escape plan! That’s called defensive driving! If there is no oncoming traffic you have the option to shift to the left to avoid someone that is exiting their car that was just parked. You can’t do that with a street island down the whole strip! Lets face it people, how many times have you passed a parked car with someone throwing their door wide open without caring of the traffic coming from behind them? That is an easy law suit!!

Second, the condos downtown was a joke! I’m not sure if this is true, but I was told that the city purchased the property by the casino at the taxpayers expense and given to developers to build on it. The condos by the casino and the condos in the old “Downtown Elgin Mall” on Grove Avenue were ready to be lived in before this economic crunch, but are they filled? No!!! Just like the condos on Kimball Street that haven’t been filled for years even with the beautification of that street for the recreation centre!

I hate to get started on the recreation centre! Even though it was proven in other communities that it doesn’t work, our council at the time said it will help our economy. It ended up costing our taxpayers to maintain it!! The citizens of Elgin that aren’t on welfare pay out the “butt” to use it, while others get to use it for free!
To build a performance hall is just another cost to the taxpayers! WE don’t need to bring in more outside people that will trash our town and leave, or make us taxpayers fork out more money for more police and fire protection that we can’t afford already even though we have the casino! This has been a secured satellite city for years prior to this administration! A city that did not need outsiders to survive! A city that employed its citizens and was structurally sound! I was breed, born and raised in this town for almost 43 years! I have seen this town support itself by working as a community, keeping itself as a unity by everyone working together raising our youth and providing within its community without growing out of control with outsider influence! (Paying hundreds of thousand dollars to advisers) This town has deteriorated by council decisions and it has to stop! We need to spend our money on infrastructure to clean-up this town and make it safe for our own citizens to go downtown, not worry about outsiders, or making our boundaries larger by stealing property (annexing)! We have city buses that can bring even senior citizens to the downtown, but they are afraid to go there! I know this, because I have talked with them! We need to take our city away from politicians that promote growth and give it to us! The people that pay for this town!!

]]> By: Boxcar http://elginite.org/blog/2009/03/13/juan-figueroa-city-council-candidate/#comment-46394 Boxcar Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:35:35 +0000 http://elginite.org/?p=1491#comment-46394 Heavens, no. We CANNOT afford 4 more years of this type of leadership, or, lack thereof. We have had enough disasters. Figueroa is in office for one reason and one reason only. To foster the desires of illegals. THAT'S IT. A vote for him means more illegals coming to Elgin while the getting is good. He said it's ok to be for illegal aliens and sit on a sworn-in council. That's like saying he's all for vandals and it's cool to be on the council. Figueroa is one dangerous man to the well-being of Elgin citizens who are victims of illegal anything. Aliens, drugs, burglars, etc. If you are for ANYTHING illegal, you should NOT be on a city council. PERIOD! Heavens, no. We CANNOT afford 4 more years of this type of leadership, or, lack thereof. We have had enough disasters. Figueroa is in office for one reason and one reason only. To foster the desires of illegals. THAT’S IT.

A vote for him means more illegals coming to Elgin while the getting is good. He said it’s ok to be for illegal aliens and sit on a sworn-in council. That’s like saying he’s all for vandals and it’s cool to be on the council.

Figueroa is one dangerous man to the well-being of Elgin citizens who are victims of illegal anything. Aliens, drugs, burglars, etc. If you are for ANYTHING illegal, you should NOT be on a city council. PERIOD!

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