Signs Of The Times

Rusty T. has an idea, yet to be revealed, regarding the beautification of League City's HWY518 entry off I-45. Regular poster, matt, was kind enough to go out and take these and a few more pictures, http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f358/joinnowfree/ , for our comparison and "edification".

What are your thoughts on League City's entryways?

LETS ALL COME TOGETHER

I hope we all get behind the Boundless Playground in League Park.
“Side by Side Hopes and Dreams”
What better use for Park Dedication Funds that are collected from a lot charge to developers in new neighborhoods. (NOT TAX FUNDS)
Let your City Council know how you feel about getting this project completed.
neil.baron@leaguecity.com
mike.barber@leaguecity.com
mick.phalen@leaguecity.com
mike.lee@leaguecity.com
phyllis.sanborn@leaguecity.com
tim.paulissen@leaguecity.com
jim.nelson@leaguecity.com tonirandall@verizon.net

SIDE BY SIDE HOPES AND DREAMS

I am thankful each and every day, to walk this path by each of you

"SIDE BY SIDE" we will travel together, supporting each other in most everything we do
Our paths have brought us together, and we will help to teach others

What it means to belong to a world, where all can be lifted up and say

We were all made different, we should still be able to travel this path together
Our children want to have a meaningful life, just like you and me

To make choices, to work, to have friends and to be as independent as they can be
An inclusion path can only help to understand

That each of us have something to offer,no matter what we look like and where we standThis same path through the years will have known every step

Of what a world would be like, hand in hand, "SIDE BY SIDE" with all people, truly meant


It is a wonderful place, where all is included

Where everyone belongs, and no one feels secluded

All these hopes and dreams are for a person to succeed

People in our world one day will only recognize each one's unique ability
~Renee'Farrow-Bennett~

How do we fix this? Not the water plant!

• $175,000 to buy the plant in 2000

• $1 million to PBS&J engineers to get plant operational

• $42,000 to Camp Dresser and McKee to assess why plant wasn’t working

• $33,343 to Camp Dresser and McKee to make it work

Someone's head rolled, is that what we wanted? How do we foster a culture sucess, when we just create a culture of fear? What is the answer?

Golf Carts, kids, and the road, a good Mix?

How many of you have had close encounters with kids running around in the neighborhood and worry that it's accident waiting to happen? I would not worry so much about that if the kids just followed traffic rules in the subdivision. I don't know how many times I saw kids drive right through stop signs. All golf carts are supposed to obey all traffic rules. That way no one gets run over. Quite a few have the radios on full blast and loaded with other kids so you know their attention is not where it should be.

League City is the epitome of what can go wrong with the golf cart law and it has run a muck here. On any given week end or time after school, golf cart loads of kids now run wild through the subdivision day and night. Their bodies hanging off the golf carts, street surfing (the practice of towing a skateboarder behind the golf cart) six kids in a 2 person golf cart. They have no regards for the rules of the road. Besides the obvious danger of this type of inexperienced driver among new legal drivers, well seasoned drivers, and now mix in Sr. citizen drivers who drive, and drive well but just don’t have the reflexes to avoid stop sign running golf carts. Further, being young drivers they are easily distracted, having accidents with parked cars which are usually hit and run when their post accident golf cart is operable and allows them to flee. A new advent to this problem is the gas powered mule. In my neighborhood, we have an 11 year old who has been given a gas powered utility vehicle. He runs around the neighborhood with the stereo blaring and 3 other kids in his car. First one must ask, what kind of parent sets his 11 year old loose in a vehicle that goes 47mpg on the city streets?

The other disturbing situation is young mothers and fathers tooling around the neighborhoods clutching infants and young children in their arms as they drive their golf carts. This is another situation that could result in a horrific accident. Children need proper seats to restrain them in case of a vehicular accident.

The carts operated by kids do not have licensed drivers or much more importantly no insurance and this must be stopped to protect the kids and the other citizens who must share the road with them,

Red Light Camera Installation

I want to preface this thread with the fact that I am not a tree hugger. However, I appreciate the beauty of trees and plants. After watching the installers of the red light cameras at multiple intersections, I was appalled at the manner in which the trees and vegetation were handled by the installers of the cameras. I watched a backhoe operator repeatedly pushing the vehicle into a 15 foot oak tree, bending the trunk and scraping the bark with total abandon for the welfare of the tree. Further the trenching was done into the drip line of the vegetation and several trees disrupting the root systems of these trees in the right of way.

These intersections and roads are brand new construction. At several places of the new roads, and new esplanades the installers cut, excavated removed steel reinforcement and cement. I wonder a few things.

1. Is someone at the City going to be sure that the installer restores all the roads and adjacent areas to pre installation conditions? What I mean is will these areas be restored without any degradation to the appearance as well as structural soundness of the roads and esplanades.

2. Has or will the city investigate to be sure that no trees or vegetation, roads or explanades will suffer from immediate or future problems as a result of this installation?

3. Was the City's Arborist involved in the process of installing the cameras? Did the Arborist approve the trenching through right of way so close to the trees?

4. What is the long term impact of the roots that were cut during the installation going to be on these trees?

5. Were the rules under the city's tree ordinance followed with regards to digging or trenching near trees?

6. Why weren't these cameras installed during the TexDot upgrades that were recently done at these intersections to avoid excavating newly installed roads and esplanades?

Time will tell if the installer does a minimum job of restoring the area or if the installer does a great job of restoring these sites.