Since Tiffin is such a small town with a shrinking population, how do we justify paying taxes from our shrinking tax base to continually subsidize Tiffin University? To explain this, I was told by one of the McDonalds Breakfast Club participants to simply "follow the money!"
It may be true, but I find it hard to accept the insinuation that we have celebrated Civic Leaders who are profiteering from their close relationship with either our Tiffin City Government, or the Tiffin University. There are laws against "private inurement" as the IRS calls it, so its existence in Tiffin would probably be a criminal offense. Does this despicable practice exist in Tiffin, or not?
Follow the money?
Friday, September 5, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
An important Question on the Miami Street Project
Normally, I support Tiffin University's socially responsible efforts and encourage others to do so, too. This time, though, Tiffin University Officials have become so aggressive, they are abusing those of us in the neighborhood who would otherwise support them.
Their Miami Street Project Plan , if allowed to go through by our City Government's Ordinance will abuse more than just a few of the private property owners on and near the TU campus. Because of this prospect for abuse (such as closing a through street without resident taxpayer permission, cutting down eleven large 75-100 year old shade trees, encouraging future eminent domain action, etc.) I have to place the Miami Street Project Plan and their corresponding Tiffin City Ordinance into the category of " Clear Abuse of Power". Why? Why do I keep using that word, "abuse"?
Why, indeed! Because there are too many unanswered questions about the integrity, need for, and high price that Tiffin Citizens will pay for Tiffin University Officials to landscape their campus...under the auspices of "pedestrian safety".
When I called him to comment on the accuracy of the safety issue, our Tiffin City Engineer said he "observed the pedestrian interaction with traffic". There was NO safety issue. He "did NOT approve any TU Plan designs and specifications"...as Tiffin University President, Dr. Paul Marion has publicly asserted in the Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune.
Further, although it is common practice in other communities, to prevent lawsuits of mayors and individual council members, our Tiffin City Engineer has NO plan to conduct a professional traffic SAFETY STUDY to determine whether the costs of pedestrian/traffic crashes or personal injury would justify closing a public street. Maybe he has NOT been ordered to do so by the City Administrator. Performing the Professional Safety Study, by a Licensed Professional Engineer, would quickly resolve the issue. I would agree to "go away" and stop pestering Tiffin University Officials, the Mayor, and the Tiffin City Council to do the right thing.
So, here is the first question that needs to be answered regarding the ill-conceived and abusive Miami Street Improvement Project that includes closing Jackson Street to neighborhood traffic.
Why should our Tiffin City Council and Mayor approve of spending $800,000 worth of tax-funded contracts to close Jackson Street so the TU can improve a "pedestrian safety" problem that does NOT really exist?
Except for empty rhetoric offered by several local politicians in the past, I don't expect any good answers. On November 4th, please add yourself to the thousands of other Responsible Citizens for Tiffin and vote "NO" on the Miami Street Project Referendum.
Thank you,
Joe Monaco
Tiffin. Ohio Voter
Their Miami Street Project Plan , if allowed to go through by our City Government's Ordinance will abuse more than just a few of the private property owners on and near the TU campus. Because of this prospect for abuse (such as closing a through street without resident taxpayer permission, cutting down eleven large 75-100 year old shade trees, encouraging future eminent domain action, etc.) I have to place the Miami Street Project Plan and their corresponding Tiffin City Ordinance into the category of " Clear Abuse of Power". Why? Why do I keep using that word, "abuse"?
Why, indeed! Because there are too many unanswered questions about the integrity, need for, and high price that Tiffin Citizens will pay for Tiffin University Officials to landscape their campus...under the auspices of "pedestrian safety".
When I called him to comment on the accuracy of the safety issue, our Tiffin City Engineer said he "observed the pedestrian interaction with traffic". There was NO safety issue. He "did NOT approve any TU Plan designs and specifications"...as Tiffin University President, Dr. Paul Marion has publicly asserted in the Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune.
Further, although it is common practice in other communities, to prevent lawsuits of mayors and individual council members, our Tiffin City Engineer has NO plan to conduct a professional traffic SAFETY STUDY to determine whether the costs of pedestrian/traffic crashes or personal injury would justify closing a public street. Maybe he has NOT been ordered to do so by the City Administrator. Performing the Professional Safety Study, by a Licensed Professional Engineer, would quickly resolve the issue. I would agree to "go away" and stop pestering Tiffin University Officials, the Mayor, and the Tiffin City Council to do the right thing.
So, here is the first question that needs to be answered regarding the ill-conceived and abusive Miami Street Improvement Project that includes closing Jackson Street to neighborhood traffic.
Why should our Tiffin City Council and Mayor approve of spending $800,000 worth of tax-funded contracts to close Jackson Street so the TU can improve a "pedestrian safety" problem that does NOT really exist?
Except for empty rhetoric offered by several local politicians in the past, I don't expect any good answers. On November 4th, please add yourself to the thousands of other Responsible Citizens for Tiffin and vote "NO" on the Miami Street Project Referendum.
Thank you,
Joe Monaco
Tiffin. Ohio Voter
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Did City Officials Abridge Tiffin Citizen's Constitutional Right to free speech?
I like Tiffin as four (4) generations of my family, and some of our neighbors, continue to benefit, at least in part, from the Tiffin University's growing presence in our neighborhood. As much as I like the idea of Tiffin University's growth, can't the TU Officials carry out their business WITHOUT abusing their neighbors...or by using Tiffin City Officials to carry out the resulting punishment to normal citizens?
I believe our Mayor Boroff to be an honorable man, but did our honorable Mayor and another Tiffin City Official violate Tiffin Citizen's constitutionally protected right of free speech?
[Click the Title, above, and read the Advertiser-Tribune's account of a recent Tiffin City Council meeting.] You decide. Here is what I decided and why:
A referendum petitioner, a small business proprietor, was following all the rules when asking people to sign the petition to put Tiffin University's Miami Street Project on the November 4th ballot. The petition signature page was attached to explanatory documents, so each voter would know what they were signing. Although he didn't have the Miami Street Project plan document in his possession, he informed voters of Tiffin University's 2005 plan to close Wall Street at the railroad crossing. This document is on file at the municipal building, or at: http://groups.google.com/group/rctohio/files
As I heard it, from a mutual friend, he was quickly and privately admonished for his petitioning activity by a Tiffin City Official. Again, as I heard it, this small business proprietor was told to stop telling voting citizens about Tiffin University's published Miami Street Plan that documents, complete with artist's rendering, their goals including closing of the Wall Street Railroad intersection.
I count our Mayor and most Tiffin City Officials as honorable. However, did TU Officials prompt attempts to thwart a referendum petitioner's First Amendment Constitutional right to freedom of speech? If it was TU's normally pervasive and powerful influence on our Tiffin City Officials, I can easily forgive City Officials their transgression. Do they at least owe an apology to the small business proprietor? To the petitioners opposing the closing of Jackson Street and other neighborhood citizen abuses? To all Tiffin Citizens?
The Advertiser-Tribune recounted Mayor Boroff 's action:
Mr. Boroff told me that they (meaning the Tiffin City Council and Himself) agreed with Tiffin University Officials in a deal that Tiffin City Officials would vote to pass ordinance 07-70, if TU would remove the Wall Street Railroad Intersection Closing as part of this current referendum issue. Mr. Boroff was deliberate and clear when he also said that this consideration of Tiffin University plans is only good on this particular referendum issue. It does NOT preclude Tiffin University from initiating an ordinance to close the Wall Street Railroad Intersection at a future date of their choosing.
I believe that Mayor Boroff and another Tiffin City Official simply made a mistake that unfortunately resulted in abusing the First Amendment right of Tiffin Citizens who have a right and duty to disclose the documented fact that TU still plans to close the Wall Street Railroad Intersection. If our Mayor had succumbed to the influence of a politically connected and powerful Tiffin University Official, I can easily forgive him, because I believe him to be an honorable man. It is the Tiffin University Officials to whom I will accord the same honor when they take the "high road", do right by their neighbor Citizens, and never again refer to Tiffin Citizen concerns as "irrelevant" (More on Dr. Marion's "irrelevant" comment, later)
So that you can view the Tiffin City Council file on TU Official's Wall Street Closing Plan, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/rctohio/files.
This kind of "abuse of power" in our City needs to stop, don't you think? Please join the growing number of Tiffin Citizens who have already pledged to vote "NO" on November 4th regarding the Miami Street Project Referendum - Ordinance 07-70 that includes closing Jackson Street WITHOUT neighborhood property owner permission.
Thank you,
Joe Monaco
Tiffin, Ohio Voter
I believe our Mayor Boroff to be an honorable man, but did our honorable Mayor and another Tiffin City Official violate Tiffin Citizen's constitutionally protected right of free speech?
[Click the Title, above, and read the Advertiser-Tribune's account of a recent Tiffin City Council meeting.] You decide. Here is what I decided and why:
A referendum petitioner, a small business proprietor, was following all the rules when asking people to sign the petition to put Tiffin University's Miami Street Project on the November 4th ballot. The petition signature page was attached to explanatory documents, so each voter would know what they were signing. Although he didn't have the Miami Street Project plan document in his possession, he informed voters of Tiffin University's 2005 plan to close Wall Street at the railroad crossing. This document is on file at the municipal building, or at: http://groups.google.com/group/rctohio/files
As I heard it, from a mutual friend, he was quickly and privately admonished for his petitioning activity by a Tiffin City Official. Again, as I heard it, this small business proprietor was told to stop telling voting citizens about Tiffin University's published Miami Street Plan that documents, complete with artist's rendering, their goals including closing of the Wall Street Railroad intersection.
I count our Mayor and most Tiffin City Officials as honorable. However, did TU Officials prompt attempts to thwart a referendum petitioner's First Amendment Constitutional right to freedom of speech? If it was TU's normally pervasive and powerful influence on our Tiffin City Officials, I can easily forgive City Officials their transgression. Do they at least owe an apology to the small business proprietor? To the petitioners opposing the closing of Jackson Street and other neighborhood citizen abuses? To all Tiffin Citizens?
The Advertiser-Tribune recounted Mayor Boroff 's action:
"Mayor Jim Boroff in his report also addressed rumors he has heard
that the project involves closing the Wall Street railroad intersection.
He said that intersection is not involved in the plans.
that the project involves closing the Wall Street railroad intersection.
He said that intersection is not involved in the plans.
Mayor Boroff also said anyone with questions on the project can call his office."
So, I called Mr. Boroff with my questions. When asked if the Tiffin University has revised their Miami Street Project Plan (on file at the municipal building) to exclude the Wall Street Intersection closing, he admitted that Tiffin University has NOT revised their plan to close it.Mr. Boroff told me that they (meaning the Tiffin City Council and Himself) agreed with Tiffin University Officials in a deal that Tiffin City Officials would vote to pass ordinance 07-70, if TU would remove the Wall Street Railroad Intersection Closing as part of this current referendum issue. Mr. Boroff was deliberate and clear when he also said that this consideration of Tiffin University plans is only good on this particular referendum issue. It does NOT preclude Tiffin University from initiating an ordinance to close the Wall Street Railroad Intersection at a future date of their choosing.
I believe that Mayor Boroff and another Tiffin City Official simply made a mistake that unfortunately resulted in abusing the First Amendment right of Tiffin Citizens who have a right and duty to disclose the documented fact that TU still plans to close the Wall Street Railroad Intersection. If our Mayor had succumbed to the influence of a politically connected and powerful Tiffin University Official, I can easily forgive him, because I believe him to be an honorable man. It is the Tiffin University Officials to whom I will accord the same honor when they take the "high road", do right by their neighbor Citizens, and never again refer to Tiffin Citizen concerns as "irrelevant" (More on Dr. Marion's "irrelevant" comment, later)
So that you can view the Tiffin City Council file on TU Official's Wall Street Closing Plan, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/rctohio/files.
This kind of "abuse of power" in our City needs to stop, don't you think? Please join the growing number of Tiffin Citizens who have already pledged to vote "NO" on November 4th regarding the Miami Street Project Referendum - Ordinance 07-70 that includes closing Jackson Street WITHOUT neighborhood property owner permission.
Thank you,
Joe Monaco
Tiffin, Ohio Voter
Friday, April 25, 2008
Did Paul Marion Dis-Honor the Late Congressman Gilmore?
If you heard or read the accounts of the public hearing (Click title, above), where record-setting numbers of Tiffin Citizens opposed the Miami Street Project Ordinance 07-70, you gotta ask at least one question. "Is the President of TU, Paul Marion, trying to dis-honor himself and those who supported him in the past?"
At the end of the public hearing, Dr. Marion declared the many participant's concerns "irrelevant". In an obvious cable-televised attempt to intimidate the citizens and remind our City Officials of his politically powerful associates. He continued his closing remarks by invoking the memory of the late Paul Gilmore, who represented Tiffin, Ohio as a US Congressman. The Gilmore Family Name is on several important buildings in Tiffin. The respected Gilmore Family is indeed one of the most generous influential public benefactors in Seneca County, Ohio, and beyond.
I believe Paul Marion should apologize to the Gilmore family. Why? He has caused their unwitting participation in a project that clearly harms those families who live in the Tiffin University Neighborhood .
We had no idea until March of this year (2008) that TU Officials were trying to use the power of Tiffin City Council to abuse us. Certainly the Gilmores didn't intend their legacy to include a growing number of Tiffin Citizens who scoff at the misuse of power their name might now represent. The Gilmore's do not deserve to have their name soiled in public by certain Tiffin Community Leaders.
The project may well benefit some Citizens. But, the Tiffin University's project and our City government's approval of it is misguided as it disregards the wishes and welfare of neighborhood property owners. (I have written of this earlier, and presented detailed facts at the Public Hearing, that was televised on local cable).
Remember, Congressman Gilmore took Tiffin University's application to Washington D.C where he successfully secured an appropriation of $800,000 for the Miami Street Project. The application (see copy on file at City Council) has misrepresentations embedded in beautifully crafted "word smithing". So, Congressman Gilmore could have no way of discerning for himself that even he was being used to advance the financial interests of Tiffin University Officials while abusing Tiffin Citizens of their right to use Jackson Street. I assume that the late Congressman Gilmore counted as honorable the President of Tiffin University and his Director of Development, Mike Grandillo. Did the betrayal of Tiffin Citizens start with the betrayal of Congressman Gilmore's trust? Why don't I just let it go? Well, I'm trying to make the situation "right", for myself, my family, and my many neighbors in Tiffin. Many, many respond with contemptuous disapproval when I simply mention Tiffin University's Miami Street Improvement Plan.
So, what was so deceitful and misrepresented on the Application that US Congressman Gilmore took to Washington, DC? [So that you don't think that I'm making this stuff up, read a copy I got from our Mayor at this location: http://groups.google.com/group/rctohio/files]
Note 1: In the Congressional Application, Tiffin University's Mike Grandillo clearly documented that the purpose of the Miami Street Improvement Project was "Pedestrian Safety". He made eleven (11) references to "Safety" throughout the formal application. In that 2004 application, the manipulation of public opinion, of our City Council, and that of Congressman Gilmore, started with each "Safety" reference. Why was this manipulative and deceitful? Mr. Grandillo knew fully that there was NO SAFETY ISSUE that would justify spending upwards of the requested one(1) million tax dollars to close neighborhood streets. If there WAS a safety issue that justified such an expensive re-engineering of the neighborhood around TU, the Tiffin City Engineer, the Tiffin Police Department, and the Ohio Department of Transportation would have files describing so many crash incidents, personal injury, and other costs that would make this a real issue. If that was the case, I would concede, and stop thinking up ways to irritate those who I would then have to honor with my sincerest best wishes.
But, NO SUCH FILES EXIST! Our Tiffin City Engineer has said to me in a recent telephone interview that during a walk-by, with ODOT (Ohio Department of Transportation), and a Tiffin University Official, he observed NO safety issues on Miami or Jackson Streets. Our Police Chief also was unable to recall any reports of injuries or crashes when asked during a recent Public Tiffin City Council Meeting.
Further, if our Tiffin City Government was to spend $800,000 of taxpayer funds to improve the safety of neighborhood streets in any other part of Tiffin, they would justify the tax-spending based on something other than a "wink-and-a-nod" from each other. To be responsible with our tax dollars, and to avoid unnecessary abuse of any individual citizen's rights, A PE (Professional Engineer) such as our own Tiffin City Engineer would be told by the Mayor to commission a formal Traffic SAFETY Study, including the fully-loaded cost of pedestrian injury, auto crash costs, and property damage. But, why isn't our City Government interested in such a traffic SAFETY study? In other communities (but not likely in Tiffin) such obvious pandering and un-justified, abusive decisions on the part of local government, would get a whole bunch of City officials sued by the more assertive and righteous Citizens among them.
Finally, if you talk to ANY of the more honorable members of Tiffin City Government, or those who know Tiffin University best, they will recount to you that at least one Tiffin University Official has, in private, gleefully admitted that "...of course there is NO safety issue. How else were we to get the public and City Council to approve of our plan?" ...wink...wink...wink.
Note 2: If you read the 2004 Application to Congress, at a certain question it asks whether TU Officials expect "...any opposition..." to the proposed plan. They marked this "NO". If they marked it "Yes", they would have had to explain in the space provided. So, they marked it "NO".
Well, who could have known they might want to oppose anything? How could I know my family home, and the neighborhood streets were about to be "captured" in a grab for real estate? That Jackson Street would be closed to through traffic? Except for only a few of the privileged, the Miami Street Project Plan, that was quietly funded through confidential efforts of TU Officials, wasn't seen by anyone until March 2008. I went to the City Engineer's Office and asked to see "the designs and specifications" that Dr. Marion referred to in the Advertiser-Tribune as "Approved...by the City Engineer...". It took a half hour to find the documents that the Assistant Engineer said were only preliminary plans and would NOT yet be in the "approval" stage. Should someone be held accountable for hiding and misleading everyone from the US Congress to the Tiffin Citizens the project is to benefit?
Did Tiffin University soil the good name of the late Congressman Gilmore, who certainly would NOT have approved of the abusive parts of TU Official's Miami Street Project Plan?
What happened to the concept of "Honor"? Who among us, with local political power, and a belief in decency, will step forth to do the right thing, only because it is the right thing to do?
You can help set the record straight by joining us on November 4th to vote 'NO' on Ordinance 07-70 Miami Street Project Referendum.
Joe Monaco
Tiffin, Ohio Voter
At the end of the public hearing, Dr. Marion declared the many participant's concerns "irrelevant". In an obvious cable-televised attempt to intimidate the citizens and remind our City Officials of his politically powerful associates. He continued his closing remarks by invoking the memory of the late Paul Gilmore, who represented Tiffin, Ohio as a US Congressman. The Gilmore Family Name is on several important buildings in Tiffin. The respected Gilmore Family is indeed one of the most generous influential public benefactors in Seneca County, Ohio, and beyond.
I believe Paul Marion should apologize to the Gilmore family. Why? He has caused their unwitting participation in a project that clearly harms those families who live in the Tiffin University Neighborhood .
We had no idea until March of this year (2008) that TU Officials were trying to use the power of Tiffin City Council to abuse us. Certainly the Gilmores didn't intend their legacy to include a growing number of Tiffin Citizens who scoff at the misuse of power their name might now represent. The Gilmore's do not deserve to have their name soiled in public by certain Tiffin Community Leaders.
The project may well benefit some Citizens. But, the Tiffin University's project and our City government's approval of it is misguided as it disregards the wishes and welfare of neighborhood property owners. (I have written of this earlier, and presented detailed facts at the Public Hearing, that was televised on local cable).
Remember, Congressman Gilmore took Tiffin University's application to Washington D.C where he successfully secured an appropriation of $800,000 for the Miami Street Project. The application (see copy on file at City Council) has misrepresentations embedded in beautifully crafted "word smithing". So, Congressman Gilmore could have no way of discerning for himself that even he was being used to advance the financial interests of Tiffin University Officials while abusing Tiffin Citizens of their right to use Jackson Street. I assume that the late Congressman Gilmore counted as honorable the President of Tiffin University and his Director of Development, Mike Grandillo. Did the betrayal of Tiffin Citizens start with the betrayal of Congressman Gilmore's trust? Why don't I just let it go? Well, I'm trying to make the situation "right", for myself, my family, and my many neighbors in Tiffin. Many, many respond with contemptuous disapproval when I simply mention Tiffin University's Miami Street Improvement Plan.
So, what was so deceitful and misrepresented on the Application that US Congressman Gilmore took to Washington, DC? [So that you don't think that I'm making this stuff up, read a copy I got from our Mayor at this location: http://groups.google.com/group/rctohio/files]
Note 1: In the Congressional Application, Tiffin University's Mike Grandillo clearly documented that the purpose of the Miami Street Improvement Project was "Pedestrian Safety". He made eleven (11) references to "Safety" throughout the formal application. In that 2004 application, the manipulation of public opinion, of our City Council, and that of Congressman Gilmore, started with each "Safety" reference. Why was this manipulative and deceitful? Mr. Grandillo knew fully that there was NO SAFETY ISSUE that would justify spending upwards of the requested one(1) million tax dollars to close neighborhood streets. If there WAS a safety issue that justified such an expensive re-engineering of the neighborhood around TU, the Tiffin City Engineer, the Tiffin Police Department, and the Ohio Department of Transportation would have files describing so many crash incidents, personal injury, and other costs that would make this a real issue. If that was the case, I would concede, and stop thinking up ways to irritate those who I would then have to honor with my sincerest best wishes.
But, NO SUCH FILES EXIST! Our Tiffin City Engineer has said to me in a recent telephone interview that during a walk-by, with ODOT (Ohio Department of Transportation), and a Tiffin University Official, he observed NO safety issues on Miami or Jackson Streets. Our Police Chief also was unable to recall any reports of injuries or crashes when asked during a recent Public Tiffin City Council Meeting.
Further, if our Tiffin City Government was to spend $800,000 of taxpayer funds to improve the safety of neighborhood streets in any other part of Tiffin, they would justify the tax-spending based on something other than a "wink-and-a-nod" from each other. To be responsible with our tax dollars, and to avoid unnecessary abuse of any individual citizen's rights, A PE (Professional Engineer) such as our own Tiffin City Engineer would be told by the Mayor to commission a formal Traffic SAFETY Study, including the fully-loaded cost of pedestrian injury, auto crash costs, and property damage. But, why isn't our City Government interested in such a traffic SAFETY study? In other communities (but not likely in Tiffin) such obvious pandering and un-justified, abusive decisions on the part of local government, would get a whole bunch of City officials sued by the more assertive and righteous Citizens among them.
Finally, if you talk to ANY of the more honorable members of Tiffin City Government, or those who know Tiffin University best, they will recount to you that at least one Tiffin University Official has, in private, gleefully admitted that "...of course there is NO safety issue. How else were we to get the public and City Council to approve of our plan?" ...wink...wink...wink.
Note 2: If you read the 2004 Application to Congress, at a certain question it asks whether TU Officials expect "...any opposition..." to the proposed plan. They marked this "NO". If they marked it "Yes", they would have had to explain in the space provided. So, they marked it "NO".
Well, who could have known they might want to oppose anything? How could I know my family home, and the neighborhood streets were about to be "captured" in a grab for real estate? That Jackson Street would be closed to through traffic? Except for only a few of the privileged, the Miami Street Project Plan, that was quietly funded through confidential efforts of TU Officials, wasn't seen by anyone until March 2008. I went to the City Engineer's Office and asked to see "the designs and specifications" that Dr. Marion referred to in the Advertiser-Tribune as "Approved...by the City Engineer...". It took a half hour to find the documents that the Assistant Engineer said were only preliminary plans and would NOT yet be in the "approval" stage. Should someone be held accountable for hiding and misleading everyone from the US Congress to the Tiffin Citizens the project is to benefit?
Did Tiffin University soil the good name of the late Congressman Gilmore, who certainly would NOT have approved of the abusive parts of TU Official's Miami Street Project Plan?
What happened to the concept of "Honor"? Who among us, with local political power, and a belief in decency, will step forth to do the right thing, only because it is the right thing to do?
You can help set the record straight by joining us on November 4th to vote 'NO' on Ordinance 07-70 Miami Street Project Referendum.
Joe Monaco
Tiffin, Ohio Voter
On-Fire Citizenship Shows Itself throughout Tiffin
Well, its been a couple of days since the public hearing on Ordinance 07-70 which has the Tiffin University seeking permission to spend $800,000 worth of our tax dollars to make Miami street prettier, close Wall Street at the railroad crossing and to close Jackson Street, too...without the permission of bordering property owners. TU officials Paul Marion and Mike Grandillo know that neighboring property owners resent the suggestion that they should loose some of their frontage, have eleven 75-100 year old shade trees destroyed, give-up free access to their homes via the Jackson/Miami Street intersection, and suffer other indignities.
So, why doesn't Tiffin University just quietly get the Tiffin City Council and the Mayor to approve of it? Didn't Mike Grandillo run City Council since about 1990? Doesn't he curiously appear to still order some Council members to do his bidding for him? He knows how to make things work at City Hall.
If I was a devious Tiffin University official, I'd simply start a campaign to misrepresent the facts, repeat them over-and-over again, and declare with absolute authority that it is for the good of Tiffin, Ohio. (Don't bother justifying the project on any particular principle) If they say it repeatedly, certainly enough city council members will learn the correct wording and thus have compelling reasons to vote for the Ordinance. This strategy would silence all Citizen opposition...who Dr. Marion believes to be "irrelevant", anyway.
This strategy has worked in the past, so it will work now, as long as we can keep those loud-mouthed, pesky, voting citizens out of it.
Or...Tiffin University officials Marion and Grandillo could STOP the destructive aspects of the Miami Street Project, and let us forgive them, so we can ALL live and work here in Tiffin, Ohio.
If they don't do so, they may create so much acrimony among more people of Tiffin who will count themselves among the abused. Remember, a record-setting number of Citizens came to the hearing to voice their opposition to the Miami Street Project Plan. Thousands more saw the hearing on cable television. It will soon be clear whether Council will vote with the voices of the citizens, or ignore those voices.
What do you think is going to happen? Will Drs. Marion and Grandillo use their high standing in our community to take the high road and prove themselves to be responsible and welcome Leaders of the Tiffin Citizenry? Will they see that forgoing the abusive aspects of the Miami Street Project will benefit them many times over in the future?
Joe Monaco
Tiffin, Ohio Voter
So, why doesn't Tiffin University just quietly get the Tiffin City Council and the Mayor to approve of it? Didn't Mike Grandillo run City Council since about 1990? Doesn't he curiously appear to still order some Council members to do his bidding for him? He knows how to make things work at City Hall.
If I was a devious Tiffin University official, I'd simply start a campaign to misrepresent the facts, repeat them over-and-over again, and declare with absolute authority that it is for the good of Tiffin, Ohio. (Don't bother justifying the project on any particular principle) If they say it repeatedly, certainly enough city council members will learn the correct wording and thus have compelling reasons to vote for the Ordinance. This strategy would silence all Citizen opposition...who Dr. Marion believes to be "irrelevant", anyway.
This strategy has worked in the past, so it will work now, as long as we can keep those loud-mouthed, pesky, voting citizens out of it.
Or...Tiffin University officials Marion and Grandillo could STOP the destructive aspects of the Miami Street Project, and let us forgive them, so we can ALL live and work here in Tiffin, Ohio.
If they don't do so, they may create so much acrimony among more people of Tiffin who will count themselves among the abused. Remember, a record-setting number of Citizens came to the hearing to voice their opposition to the Miami Street Project Plan. Thousands more saw the hearing on cable television. It will soon be clear whether Council will vote with the voices of the citizens, or ignore those voices.
What do you think is going to happen? Will Drs. Marion and Grandillo use their high standing in our community to take the high road and prove themselves to be responsible and welcome Leaders of the Tiffin Citizenry? Will they see that forgoing the abusive aspects of the Miami Street Project will benefit them many times over in the future?
Joe Monaco
Tiffin, Ohio Voter
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