Asheville City Council is expected to approve its Strategic Operating Plan Tuesday. The belated document gets off on the wrong foot by listing first “Adoption of Municipal Service Districts, including the South Slope, the River Arts District, and Charlotte Street Corridor.” Swell. Tax us more, but I just might have something up my sleevies besides my armies.
A second annoyance with the plan is the Action Item, “Leverage regional service provider partnerships to assist small businesses in gaining access to effective business plan development.” What? Does the city have a friend in the business plan development business?
Overall, my comments would be that the document is top-heavy. We have a lot of mentally-ill people wandering around. That sounds crude, but when my stalker is willing to B&E and steal to fulfill his divine orders to control me, I seriously think about relocating. I further did not appreciate the three break-ins my car sustained last year from the guys who were lifting whatever was not tied down for awhile in the hood. I am therefore almost laughing at the prospect that recruiting festivals, schmoozing legislators, and developing guiding principles is what the people need.
Also, I am somewhat dismayed at the back seat English is taking. I wasted a good ten seconds trying to figure out what was meant with one typo, and I just got aggravated with a dozen other things a proofreader should have caught. No, I am not advocating that taxpayers pay for a proofreader. It’s just that . . . if people don’t write at the fourth-grade level, I start wondering about their aptitude in math and economics.
