5th Friday in a row with snow and without snow removal. I took a walk down at Carr Park on east 13th yesterday. Every inch of the bike path was plowed even back to the most out of the way areas. The loop drive that only goes to the soccer field was plowed. The city streets? Not so much. Well if they don’t need plowed because the snowfall was under 2″, why do the bike paths need plowed? Why do parking lots for ball diamonds that won’t be used for 3 months need plowed? If 2″ is a problem there, why isn’t it on the city streets?

Speaking of Carr Park,  this will be the 3rd summer 1/3rd of the park will be unusable. They closed it off in spring of 2018 to do some work on the dam. All they did was move in materials for a couple of weeks in May of 2018. No work was done again until 2 weeks at the first of August in 2019. So far its been closed all of 2 years, with only 4 weeks of actual work being done. Ames Parks and Recreation sees no problem with this. Writing incredibly lackadaisical contracts so that taxpayer assets sit idle for years.

I swear I’m going to go door to door with an advisory sheet for Ames City Council elections to bring accountability back to city government. I’ll call it my: “Fire City Manager Steve Schainker” campaign.