[RP TownTalk] Complaint

Thu Dec 24 00:05:49 UTC 2009

No need to get personal and nasty Jeff.
Some people, who actually live in the town, were inconvenienced by the lack of efficient snow removal.  Yes Riverdale Road was cleared. That was nice for the people who live there.
But.....
Some people who live in this town are frustrated by the lack of response to their concerns.  Legitimate  complaint needs to b3e taken seriously.
Hyttesville, University Park and College Park handled their snow situations. If our town needs some help with their plan, they need to reach out and ask advice from their neighbors.

( did you add your missellings to make me feel comfortable? :)

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From: Jeffrey Yorke <yorkedial at gmail.com>
To: michelle burns <mishburns at yahoo.com>
Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Sent: Wed, December 23, 2009 2:10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Complaint

It seems that snow wasn't the only flakes that fell on Riverdale Park over the weekend. TownTalk poster Michelle Burns hits the nail on the head, particularly with the observation that things here have gotten nasty for no good reason. Some posters have a personal grudge against the town's leadership and regularly use this space to become the cyber equivalent of suicide bombers. There cause might better be helped not by sniping but by acq But if you need another source, consider The Washington Post Monday editorial (A18) which said, in part, "The stron that hit Washington and its suburbs was ranked by the Ntional Weather Service as among the biggest in local history, with 16.5 inches of snow recorded at Reagan National Airport and as much as 23 inches elsewhere. That's more snow than the region gets in a typical winter, so it's understandable that the area, virtually paraluzed on Saturday and Sunday, is only now regaining some normalcy.  

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, michelle burns <mishburns at yahoo.com> wrote:

While some residents may have legitimate reasons to feel that they were unnecessarily inconvenienced by the town's response to the recent storm, I thought that the mayor's explanation was clear and reasonable: confronted with a record-breaking storm, emphasis was placed on keeping major roads and emergency lanes open.  In a perfect world, no one would ever run out of salt and no machine would ever break down, but the tone of some of these messages is downright nasty.  Saying that the town's response was "unitelligent" [sic] or suggesting that town officials are just collecting paychecks and shirking their work is offensive.  If and when mistakes are made, measures should be taken to ensure that they're not repeated, which it seems the town is doing.   If people are so critical of how things are being handled, why don't they run for public office, get elected, and do it better?  
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>My real question is: Does someone have a particular axe to grind and is that why they jump on every mistake, real or perceived, as an excuse to complain?   
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>Kumbaya and Merry Christmas,
>Michelle Burns
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>--- On Wed, 12/23/09, Andrew Waldron <andrewwaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>From: Andrew Waldron <andrewwaldo at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Complaint
>>To: "blueheron66 at verizon.net" <blueheron66 at verizon.net>
>>Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
>>Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 11:02 AM 
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>>I completely agree. 47th Ave was plowed for the first time last night, THREE days after the initial snow storm. And was salted today, FOUR days after the storm. Clearly there is something wrong, and I concur. We should not just ignore the problem by 'cuddling up with a good book.'  
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>>-Andy
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>>On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM, blueheron66 at verizon.net <blueheron66 at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>I'm extremely disappointed in Riverdale Park's lax, unitelligent, ineffectual response to this recent snow. The town's excuses for delayed or even no snow plowing and salt spreading are just plain unacceptable. We pay good, hard-earned tax money for supposedly professional services to keep our streets clear in a winter emergency.  We should not have to clear the streets ourselves. Maryland is not the Sun Belt, for pete's sake.  Winters are often harsh here, and our town services need to prepare accordingly.  For the money we pay, there should be no salt shortage, no malfunctioning equipment....no boatload of lame excuses! To echo another Towntalk poster, if I displayed the same kind of attitude and weak response on my job, I'd be fired. It's disgusting to read the comments along the lines of "Oh, Kumbaya, Kumbaya....shoveling snow brought me and my neighbors closer together" Folks, quit settling for mediocrity. Quit enabling the Town of Riverdale
 Park!  
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