If you ask a local commercial real estate guru what the going rate is for a land lease for a seasonal restaurant located in a town with a lot of visitors, they will tell you its about $20 per square foot. Compare that to the rate that the Jiggershop owners, Chuck Allwein and Andrew Allwein, pay for leasing the land that their Jiggershop restaurant is on in Mount Gretna: about $2 a square foot. No, that's not a typo.
It is probably more like a reward for letting the land owner, the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, use the Allweins' public official authority to approve the use of public resources to provide this private company with a boatload of taxpayer subsidized property maintenance services.
Yep, that's right. In return for letting their dear family friend and Mount Gretna Borough Public Works Director, William Care, use Borough staff, vehicles, and equipment to mow the private company's lawns, to repair and paint the private company's buildings, and build, pave, and otherwise maintain the private company's parking lots (which keep the environs of the Allweins' Jiggershop loaded with paying customers), Borough Council President Charles Allwein and Gretna Sewer and Water Authority Boardmember Andrew Allwein realisticially get the land for their Jiggershop restaurant for free.
On top of that, this author has been provided no substantiation that the Jiggershop owners, Chuck Allwein and Drew Allwein are actually paying for the Jiggershop's Sewer and Water Authority fees.
And, dear friend Bill Care now gets to not only request a full-time paycheck from a public employer for what is really only a part-time job (remember, the Borough actually owns no land or buildings within its boundaries), but Bill Care also gets an average of nearly 700 hours of overtime a year and health, dental, vision, disability, etc benefits. His state retirement contribution is also completely paid for by the Borough. Which is to say that the only entity on the hook for Bill Care's $120,000+ compensation package is the Borough of Mount Gretna.
No matter what the Allweins, the Borough and the Authority and the Chautauqua Financial Secretary Linda Bell, or the Chautuaqua, the Borough, the Authority, and the Gretna Playhouse Public Works Director Bill Care SAYS to you about there being some other entity paying the costs here, they can not substantiate it with hard evidence. The fact remains that Care "bills" the Borough, and the Borough alone, for his $120,000 compensation package.
So it seems that these public officials-family friends have managed to enjoy quite the lucrative arrangement of profiteering from their public offices.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Who should be accountable for injuries sustained in accidents on Mount Gretna's SR117?
Very recently, there was a serious accident on Mount Gretna's SR117--a road that residents have been complaining about as being unsafe since at least the late 1990's. Sadly, this accident is not reported in the local newspaper. Given that fictitious "dangers" on that road are plastered all over the LDNews and "about town" by Gretna officials, we really have to ask why the secrecy regarding real accidents.
In exploring this issue, know that more recent safety complaints were not only ignored, but local officials actually reacted to the formal nature of the complaints as threatening and subsequesntly engaged in a malicious plan of silencing the complaining resident. Kathleen K. Snavely, of Lightkeeper Consulting, Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, and Lebanon County Republican Committee Co-chair, is one of the local officials that engaged in this retaliatory activity by ensuring that her friends at the Lebanon Daily News, and that other local leaders re-published as often as possible a story about the whistleblower that she knew, all along, was not true. So, we should also ask Kathy Snavely more specifically why she hasn't she given her friends at the Lebanon Daily News her instructions to plaster this very real incident (see dispatch log below) all over that rag?
Umm, let's see, a non-existent victimless "incident", made up to allow malicious prosecution of a citizen who had written several letters complaining of the dangerous conditions being allowed by Mount Gretna Borough officials on the Lakeview Dr. and Mt. Gretna Rd area (and who discovered and reported Mount Gretna Borough and PA Chautauqua officials' financial improprieties)...this story repeated ad nauseum to local organizations and leaders by PA Chautauqua HOA Boardmember Kathy Snavely and plastered all over her mouthpiece local rag known as the LDN ...v. a real accident involving real victim(s) and, apparently, Mount Gretna Borough officials, on the very same road area previously reported as unsafe.
Way to go Snave! So here is another situation where I again ask myself "how do you sleep at night," given all your petty self-serving manipulations and incompetence?There absolutely is a safety issue regarding Mount Gretna's SR 117, and there is a legal and ethical issue regarding improper use of public resources to operate a private company of which you, Kathleen K. Snavely, are a boardmember.
And you, of all of the gang participating in this apparent scheme, seem to be the most egregiously flawed character of them all--because instead of using your resources and responsibilities to address these two very serious issues, it should be the apparent conclusion or opinion of ALL PA Chautauqua shareholders and Mount Gretna Borough taxpayers that instead of addressing this safety issue, you actively and knowingly participated in devising and pursuing a plan to "shoot the messenger." Or, is it, "cut the snake off at the head," as Mount Gretna Borough Public Works Director Bill Care said of the plan to silence the whistleblower? (And, why wouldn't he feel threatened, he is the Public Works Director of a municipality that has essentially has no public works and who, nevertheless, enjoys an annual compensation package of $120,000---that we can trace so far. There is likely more.)
So, for example, instead of urging that our police contract actually provide services that our community is demanding, like issuing more than 6 traffic tickets a year, you get another opportunity, Kathy, to profess that you are only accountable for your actions to your god. Well, if you truly believe that, Kathy Snavely, then you have no business assuming community positions in which the positions require that you are accountable to shareholders, constituents, clients, etc.
In this respect, you and your conspirators are complete failures, and I have no hesitancy in saying that, to all of you who have engaged in a pattern of ignoring the repeated and enduring and varied sources of complaints about the safety of SR117, with every true accident occurring on our road, you should be loosing sleep at night. You should be wildly ashamed of yourselves.
EXCERPT of Lebanon County Dispatch Log from September 13, 2011:
13:25:23 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries
13:25:21 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03
13:25:19 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Amb 180 Lawn
13:25:17 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03 FG-4 E2
13:25:15 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Sta 02 Siren
13:25:10 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Sta 03 Siren
13:25:08 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries AmbCo180 ı Station 03
13:25:07 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries
13:25:05 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03 FG-4 E2 W3 AT3 PT3 R2 R38 AmbCo180 ı Station 03
13:25:03 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries AmbCo180 ı Station 02
13:25:01 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03 FG-4 E2 W3 AT3 PT3 R2 R38 AmbCo180 ı Sta 02 Siren
In exploring this issue, know that more recent safety complaints were not only ignored, but local officials actually reacted to the formal nature of the complaints as threatening and subsequesntly engaged in a malicious plan of silencing the complaining resident. Kathleen K. Snavely, of Lightkeeper Consulting, Mount Gretna, Lebanon County, and Lebanon County Republican Committee Co-chair, is one of the local officials that engaged in this retaliatory activity by ensuring that her friends at the Lebanon Daily News, and that other local leaders re-published as often as possible a story about the whistleblower that she knew, all along, was not true. So, we should also ask Kathy Snavely more specifically why she hasn't she given her friends at the Lebanon Daily News her instructions to plaster this very real incident (see dispatch log below) all over that rag?
Umm, let's see, a non-existent victimless "incident", made up to allow malicious prosecution of a citizen who had written several letters complaining of the dangerous conditions being allowed by Mount Gretna Borough officials on the Lakeview Dr. and Mt. Gretna Rd area (and who discovered and reported Mount Gretna Borough and PA Chautauqua officials' financial improprieties)...this story repeated ad nauseum to local organizations and leaders by PA Chautauqua HOA Boardmember Kathy Snavely and plastered all over her mouthpiece local rag known as the LDN ...v. a real accident involving real victim(s) and, apparently, Mount Gretna Borough officials, on the very same road area previously reported as unsafe.
Way to go Snave! So here is another situation where I again ask myself "how do you sleep at night," given all your petty self-serving manipulations and incompetence?There absolutely is a safety issue regarding Mount Gretna's SR 117, and there is a legal and ethical issue regarding improper use of public resources to operate a private company of which you, Kathleen K. Snavely, are a boardmember.
And you, of all of the gang participating in this apparent scheme, seem to be the most egregiously flawed character of them all--because instead of using your resources and responsibilities to address these two very serious issues, it should be the apparent conclusion or opinion of ALL PA Chautauqua shareholders and Mount Gretna Borough taxpayers that instead of addressing this safety issue, you actively and knowingly participated in devising and pursuing a plan to "shoot the messenger." Or, is it, "cut the snake off at the head," as Mount Gretna Borough Public Works Director Bill Care said of the plan to silence the whistleblower? (And, why wouldn't he feel threatened, he is the Public Works Director of a municipality that has essentially has no public works and who, nevertheless, enjoys an annual compensation package of $120,000---that we can trace so far. There is likely more.)
So, for example, instead of urging that our police contract actually provide services that our community is demanding, like issuing more than 6 traffic tickets a year, you get another opportunity, Kathy, to profess that you are only accountable for your actions to your god. Well, if you truly believe that, Kathy Snavely, then you have no business assuming community positions in which the positions require that you are accountable to shareholders, constituents, clients, etc.
In this respect, you and your conspirators are complete failures, and I have no hesitancy in saying that, to all of you who have engaged in a pattern of ignoring the repeated and enduring and varied sources of complaints about the safety of SR117, with every true accident occurring on our road, you should be loosing sleep at night. You should be wildly ashamed of yourselves.
EXCERPT of Lebanon County Dispatch Log from September 13, 2011:
13:25:23 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries
13:25:21 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03
13:25:19 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Amb 180 Lawn
13:25:17 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03 FG-4 E2
13:25:15 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Sta 02 Siren
13:25:10 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Sta 03 Siren
13:25:08 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries AmbCo180 ı Station 03
13:25:07 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries
13:25:05 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03 FG-4 E2 W3 AT3 PT3 R2 R38 AmbCo180 ı Station 03
13:25:03 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries AmbCo180 ı Station 02
13:25:01 13-09-11 POCSAG-1 South Londonderry Township LAKEVIEW DR MOUNT GRETNA RD AREA MG MAINTENANCE FACILITY MV - Accident w/Injuries Box 3-03 FG-4 E2 W3 AT3 PT3 R2 R38 AmbCo180 ı Sta 02 Siren
Monday, September 12, 2011
Jiggershop operates for free?
If you ask a local commercial real estate guru what the going rate is for a land lease for a seasonal restaurant located in a town with a lot of visitors, they will tell you its about $20 per square foot. Compare that to the rate that the Jiggershop owners, Chuck Allwein and Andrew Allwein, pay for leasing the land that their Jiggershop restaurant is on in Mount Gretna: about $2 a square foot. No, that's not a typo.
It is probably more like a reward for letting the land owner, the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, use the Allweins' public official authority to approve the use of public resources to provide this private company with a boatload of taxpayer subsidized property maintenance services.
Yep, that's right. In return for letting their dear family friend and Mount Gretna Borough Public Works Director, William Care, use Borough staff, vehicles, and equipment to mow the private company's lawns, to repair and paint the private company's buildings, and build, pave, and otherwise maintain the private company's parking lots (which keep the environs of the Allweins' Jiggershop loaded with paying customers), Borough Council President Charles Allwein and Gretna Sewer and Water Authority Boardmember Andrew Allwein realisticially get the land for their Jiggershop restaurant for free.
On top of that, this author has been provided no substantiation that the Jiggershop owners, Chuck Allwein and Drew Allwein are actually paying for the Jiggershop's Sewer and Water Authority fees.
And, dear friend Bill Care now gets to not only request a full-time paycheck from a public employer for what is really only a part-time job (remember, the Borough actually owns no land or buildings within its boundaries), but Bill Care also gets an average of nearly 700 hours of overtime a year and health, dental, vision, disability, etc benefits. His state retirement contribution is also completely paid for by the Borough. Which is to say that the only entity on the hook for Bill Care's $120,000+ compensation package is the Borough of Mount Gretna.
No matter what the Allweins, the Borough and the Authority and the Chautauqua Financial Secretary Linda Bell, or the Chautuaqua, the Borough, the Authority, and the Gretna Playhouse Public Works Director Bill Care SAYS to you about there being some other entity paying the costs here, they can not substantiate it with hard evidence. The fact remains that Care "bills" the Borough, and the Borough alone, for his $120,000 compensation package.
So it seems that these public officials-family friends have managed to enjoy quite the lucrative arrangement of profiteering from their public offices.
It is probably more like a reward for letting the land owner, the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, use the Allweins' public official authority to approve the use of public resources to provide this private company with a boatload of taxpayer subsidized property maintenance services.
Yep, that's right. In return for letting their dear family friend and Mount Gretna Borough Public Works Director, William Care, use Borough staff, vehicles, and equipment to mow the private company's lawns, to repair and paint the private company's buildings, and build, pave, and otherwise maintain the private company's parking lots (which keep the environs of the Allweins' Jiggershop loaded with paying customers), Borough Council President Charles Allwein and Gretna Sewer and Water Authority Boardmember Andrew Allwein realisticially get the land for their Jiggershop restaurant for free.
On top of that, this author has been provided no substantiation that the Jiggershop owners, Chuck Allwein and Drew Allwein are actually paying for the Jiggershop's Sewer and Water Authority fees.
And, dear friend Bill Care now gets to not only request a full-time paycheck from a public employer for what is really only a part-time job (remember, the Borough actually owns no land or buildings within its boundaries), but Bill Care also gets an average of nearly 700 hours of overtime a year and health, dental, vision, disability, etc benefits. His state retirement contribution is also completely paid for by the Borough. Which is to say that the only entity on the hook for Bill Care's $120,000+ compensation package is the Borough of Mount Gretna.
No matter what the Allweins, the Borough and the Authority and the Chautauqua Financial Secretary Linda Bell, or the Chautuaqua, the Borough, the Authority, and the Gretna Playhouse Public Works Director Bill Care SAYS to you about there being some other entity paying the costs here, they can not substantiate it with hard evidence. The fact remains that Care "bills" the Borough, and the Borough alone, for his $120,000 compensation package.
So it seems that these public officials-family friends have managed to enjoy quite the lucrative arrangement of profiteering from their public offices.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Foreshadowing
This video is intended for a limited audience, and they know who they are. That said, feel free to watch it. It is an empassioned depiction of the pain caused by a corrupt government and legal process.
Minute 3:00 to 4:00 is my favorite: it is pure, straight-up, unadulterated, spontaneous emotion. The closest someone ever really gets to the truth maybe.
Minute 3:00 to 4:00 is my favorite: it is pure, straight-up, unadulterated, spontaneous emotion. The closest someone ever really gets to the truth maybe.
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