This is a heavily used office. Not only is it where elections activities are conducted, but it's probably visited by about 4,000 people every year who need a voter registration card for their gun permit. The office itself is well maintained, but the outside is pretty much a mess. The shrubbery surrounding the building likes like a wasteland. Masonry in the parking lot is broken into pieces.
Although this is hardly an emergency, maintenance definitely needs to be scheduled or there will soon be a need for major capital repairs.
still better than the lehigh County Elections Office, basement of the government building on 7th street in Allentown, catty corner from the PPL Center... no parking, and when you get inside you get frisked and scanned by the sheriff deputy, head to the elevators and go to the basement, no windows (of course) they do have a nice bench to sit on waiting for informantion and a US Flag that flew over the capital thanks to charlie dent...
ReplyDeleteTypical government inefficiency. Spend millions to build something. Let it deteriorate. Call it a crisis and demand more money to fix the problem of its own creation. The circle jerk never stops. But hey, it's only money.
ReplyDeleteThe best solution to these various problems would be to have a freshly paroled JG tackle them one by one.
ReplyDeleteHis glistening visage would draw onlookers and papparazzi from all over to observe his poetry in motion. He has long been a humble servant of NorCo and despite the putrid treatment lavished upon him his commitment towards a better government has never waivered.
Bernie I hope you get front row seats for his debut at courtesy of the floor, it will be a packed house.
I do not want to hear republicans say this is about cutting spending. No this is a mess. I say that county council should have a work party over there and clean it up. They use that office. This could be cleaned up in about 10 days. That building used to be beautiful when privately owned. Lets take some pride in the county and get that looking good again.
ReplyDeleteGreat job for work release prisoners from west Easton.
ReplyDeleteSurprized? Not at all. Hope no one falls over those pavers returning ballot results in another week. Now that you pointed that out, Brown will get his staff on that right away because Scomillio his Mentor is running for Judge!
ReplyDeleteAusterity in action. The whole country is starting to look like this. No one wants to pay taxes, the Republicans don't want to raise taxes. The country decays.
ReplyDeletetypical union cry baby work
ReplyDeleteThe person who complained to me is a die-hard Republican, not a unin member or even an employee.
ReplyDeleteThat building looked fine and was well kept before Brownstain took office. A gaggle of maintenance workers retired, and Brownie began reorganizing staff supposedly to improve efficiencies. He hired a shitload of useless staff for DCED while letting parks & maintenance vacancies languish. So nothing is getting done, and a formally decent looking building like Milides is beginning to resemble a cafe in Beirut. But Dee Rumsey shouldn't care. It was her brainstorm that resulted in parks workers being used to deliver voting machines instead of keeping up with property maintenance.
ReplyDeleteThis is typical Norco thinking. Instead of one building holding all non-court related business we have many buildings scattered allover the place.
ReplyDeleteThat is really dumb. Of course executives love their personal monuments to themselves. Only a smart county council can stop such nonsense. So we are doomed to more of the same.
DHS building does too. All it has is clover patches, crab grass, and dirt around building. Also has a line of weeds that seperate the property line to the south. Sad looking as this shows how the county feels about its workers and consumers.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the sunken and cracked concrete paths that handicap people cannot navigate through.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes this not only sad and neglectful is that if a homeowner tried this the "authorities" would be at their door!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeletestill better than the lehigh County Elections Office, basement of the government building on 7th street in Allentown, catty corner from the PPL Center... no parking, and when you get inside you get frisked and scanned by the sheriff deputy, head to the elevators and go to the basement, no windows (of course) they do have a nice bench to sit on waiting for informantion and a US Flag that flew over the capital thanks to charlie dent...
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this is so true. no where at all to park. why can't voter registration and absentee ballots be done online! Very difficult process and time consuming to even get a ballot.
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ReplyDeleteAs often as you post your OT crap, it will be deleted. Start your own blog for your lies.
ReplyDeleteIs the walkway crumbling? That is the question.
ReplyDeleteElections are supposed be the lifeblood of our democracy, but who knows in this county? Northampton's Sequoia Advantage voting machines are totally outdated, no longer being manufactured, and pretty much at the end of their useful lives. Is anyone paying attention?? In 2006 Northampton wasted its federal Help America Vote Act grant money on the horribly poor choice of the WINvote touchscreens. When WINvote finally got decertified by the state in 2008, the county could have gotten a state-of-the-art paper ballot and scanner system (like 75% of the rest of the USA) and might have been good to go for another 15-20 years, but noooo... again Northampton officials made the horribly poor choice to spend taxpayer dollars for a pushbutton Sequoia machine that was designed in the 1980s. Now Montgomery County, the only other county in Pennsylvania that uses these old junkers, is making plans and budgeting to get rid of them. Northampton should be doing this too, and soon... AND fix up the elections office.
ReplyDeleteThe concrete pathway is NOT cracked or sunken as alleged by the DHS building hater. However, the ground cover around the building is pretty much weeds and clover. Not sure what can b done about that.
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