What Are Your Tax Dollars WORTH?

For well over one year.

If You Can Avoid Driving On Worth Avenue, Do So Until It Is Repaved Next Week. Thanks To Luizzi, It Is A Pothole Minefield!

 

DPW crew tending to Luizzi's mess today.

Before the cones arrived this afternoon,
this hole caused at least one flat tire.

How Upside Down is Hudson City Hall? Just Read The Code (Carefully) and Walk The Sidewalks (Carefully)!

Soon after posting yesterday's pictorial showing Luizzi's code violation sidewalk work on and adjacent to lower Warren Street, I read through chapter 266 of the city code titled Streets And Sidewalks to see which city official or officials are responsible for making sure that contractors and homeowners construct sidewalks properly and with the correct materials.  The information therein shows how easily things can (and do) get screwed up and how no one inside City Hall takes responsibility for mistakes in sidewalk construction and unsafe sidewalks that homeowners ignore for years and decades.  The situation we find ourselves in regarding city sidewalks is embarrassing and beyond concerning, and it should not be an issue in the year 2025. 

Concrete Is The Only Allowed Material For Sidewalks. Any Other Material Is a Code Violation.

 

Ugly Is A Quality of Life Issue! Therefore, Shouldn't Ugly Be A Code Violation?

 

Luizzi, the contractor working on our $10,000,000
DRI project, left chunks of concrete at the base of 
the sidewalk tree at the southwest corner of 1st & Warren
MONTHS AGO.  ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TREE 
OVER EXPOSED ROOTS!

Le Fin Du Gamin!

 

One Hundred And Thirty Nine Thousand Dollars In Taxpayer Revenue Has Been Gathering Dust (And Possibly Mold) In A Shed On Dock Street For The Past 4 Months!

There has been $139,000 worth of parking kiosks and associated gadgets in a storage shed at the DPW garage on Dock Street for the past four months waiting to be installed on Warren Street sidewalks and in city-owned parking lots.  The much lauded kiosks won't leave that shed anytime soon, and I would bet anyone two hundred dollars that not one kiosk gets put in the ground and turned on this year.  A city as steeped in dysfunction as Hudson is never should have taken this project on.  We don't even have a proper Parking Bureau with a Parking Supervisor, two goals which the committee hopes to achieve by "creating and raising revenue" with the parking kiosks, presumably with them installed in the ground for use, not in storage on Dock Street.  The ridiculously titled Parking Study Committee (stop studying and do something!) has put their cart before their horse.

(From what I can gather, $139,000 got us 16 kiosks -- a cost of a little less than $10,000 apiece.)