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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yeah, Welcome to Taco Tuesday, Dave Jennings. I'm Dwight
whitting Tony Venetti is having anal rejuvenation surgery. I think
is that what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's a new prosigere. I'm not real familiar with it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hang on, what's hip a law? What? Oh? Oh, Tony's
just out today, Dave, Oh gotcha? News Radio eight forty whas.
How about them Dodgers? Baby? How about that? To start
off three to nothing? They leave the series over the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now you have some kind of tie to the Los
Angeles dostris. You've never mentioned it before on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Darn you, Dave Jennings. You know how I don't like
to talk about my personal life or my in laws.
We appreciate that, but I'm gonna I'll break the fourth wall. Yes,
my sister in laws. I guess my wife too. Their
nephew plays for the Dodgers. Oh yeah, I never I
like to talk about that. But how about that?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You know, I gotta wonder.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So if he walked into a room with him, would
he go uncle Wright?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
He would probably uh run and jump on my lap.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
He Sammy.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Uh, the cool thing is so last Tuesday him and
his wife just had a baby, and then just a
few days later he's playing in the World Series. But
my sister in law and brother in law Kathy and
Scott Young flew out to Los Angeles for game one
and game two.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What what games? I think it was was? Game two
was won by a Grand Slam walk off, Grand Slam
home run.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yep, there a game away from sweeping.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So if you're if you're a Dodger, now listen, winning
the World Series is winning the World Series pretty terrific,
right you would think, But does it take a little
bit out of that when you win it on the road.
I mean every team wants to win it at home, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
But you don't want to go three games to one,
and I hope you went at home. No, Ideally you'd
win at home in front of the home fans. You'd
have your own bed and shower later on. But you'll
take the four game sweep all day long.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
No, absolutely. I think one of the greatest Worlds heeries
well of my lifetime that I remember at least it
gotten me this way is when was it ninety or
ninety one when Cincinnati Reds were taken on the Oakland
A's and the Oakland A's it was Conseco. They were
the biggest, they were baddest, and they said that they
were going to sweep Cincinnati in four mm hmm. Then
(02:34):
Cincinnati sweeped them, and for that was that Chris Sable team,
just that great Reds team.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I went to a World Series game when I lived
in Wisconsin. It was nineteen eighty two. I think Brewers Cardinals.
We lost in seven. I think I was at Game five.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Pretty cool, I h I texted my sister in law
Kathy the night of the game while they're at the game,
out of curiosity, I said, Hey, how much is the
ticket anyway? The World Series? And she said, oh, you know,
nothing when your nephew plays for him. But I'm gonna
text her back because I want to find out exactly
what the face value is on one of those tickets.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now she's staying with them? If not, how much of
the hotels?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh no, she wasn't staying with them because they have
a they live in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh okay, but then they just.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Rent an apartment in La because of taxes, you know,
I mean they're running their own people out anyway. Congratulations
to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hope they sweep them in
New York. FTC and Federal Trade Commission. I like this,
but I'm wondering how they're gonna enforce it. It's got
(03:41):
stuff fine too. The Federal Trade Commission is not gonna
take fake reviews and testimonials online. You know, when you
slam a company or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right, who determines what's fake?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Because there are a lot of fake positives. So I
know some business that just opens magically one thousand and
five star reviews.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Wow, I didn't even think about that. I see. I
went straight for the negative of other businesses, not like you.
I went straight for other businesses trying to torpedo their competition.
But that's a good point, Dave. It could be it
could be your positive reviews inflating the UH And.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Just like content online, you know who's the arbiter, right,
who's to say what's misinformation and not so?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
In a statement, the FTC said, under the new rule,
anyone who participates in a fake online review and it
doesn't say positive or negative, so you're right, yeah, could
be fined up to fifty one, seven hundred and forty
four dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How do you approve it?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What's about? What's a person?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That's a great point. That's a great point.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Sorry, I didn't mean to shoot the story down.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, No, is iPhone sixteen? Is that a newer one
or an older one? Which one is that?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And well I have the iPhone eight? Okay, so it's
newer than that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Listen, man, and I mean this with all sincerity, Dave.
A lot of women find flip phones attractive.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My wife loved her pink Razor phone from back in
the day, and then Razor came out with a new one.
But it's like fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Are you serious? Yes, he's the older Razor.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
As a heart attack? Sorry, Tony, Oh sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's texting yesterday on something and I said, I'm dead serious,
and I started to say I'm serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I think we need to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You can't laugh about almost dying. What can you do?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I got to hear about the heart smart crap every day.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We always did.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let me just go, I'm gonna go to the Google machine.
Hang on, what would that be? Which model is.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The This pause is brought to you by Tuckos sput Nickutnick.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, oh it's the new one.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's the newest okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So the newest iPhone. Let me get back to spot
Nick boom boom. The Apple iPhone six is now prohibited
in Indonesia, meaning you can't buy one, or you can't
use one, and even just as equally as important, you
can't have one in your possession.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Can you have an Android phone?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, but you can have any iPhone except for the
iPhone sixteen. It's now illegal in Indonesia. Why because the
Industry Minister announced that the iPhone sixteen doesn't or six
sixteen actually sixteen doesn't have the International Mobile Equipment Identity
(06:53):
Certification for use in Indonesia, meaning I don't know what
that means. But even if you're traveling, the band is
so strict that if you're traveling to Indonesia, you got
two choices. Get a second phone or don't go, or
just have your phone confiscated.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What number is greater? The people listening right now that
are going to Indonesia with an iPhone sixteen are the
people listening right now that are going to the iHeart
Music Festival in Las Vegas. Are those both zeros?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, I think there's a chance people are going.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
To to Indonesia's a good chance of that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh, speaking of phone, So this is way back in
the day when smartphones are just coming out. We found
some Chinese knockoff phones. They had little stylus it with
you know, stick to the phone you use that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I got one.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It would just you know, random like half nude women
pictures would pop up wherever you go. But it had
this feature where if you're leaving someone a voicemail, you
could set the background noise. Oh, it would be traffic, outdoors, whatever.
So you can say, honey's stuck in traffic. Uh, it's
probably gonna be an hour or so, and then behind
you is the sound of traffic.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's pretty cool, is it. Now that's a feature you
can use and listen to this man. So I had
I think it was Friday. I had to call the
uh one of the new girls, Kate okay, and I
had a question about one of her accounts, and it
goes straight to voicemail, like when anyone sees my number,
that's usually what happens. But I started I started talking, Hey, Kate,
(08:23):
I just talked to such and such and whatever was
going on, and then all of a sudden, a sudden,
it picks up. Hey, this is kate, like an old
timey answering machine. Evidently on the iPhone they have a
thing now where you can be listening to the message
and you can pick up oh, like an old you know,
like an old answer machine. Sure, so I said, up, sorry,
(08:44):
I sent a text to this. Is this not your
cell phone? She goes, No, it's it's my cell phone.
I had no idea they were doing that. No.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And then they can also screen, and you say spam.
Likely it'll send a message to a scammer saying you're
being monitored and all this kind of stuff, so they
can be helpful. They can also listen and run your life.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, right, I know, VI, the CIA listening devices to
the point where I'll talk to Susan about something and
then I'll start getting ads served to me on social
media even Google.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
At this point, Yep, it's happened us too. Random stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
No one of them was really random. I'm not gonna
tell the story because it's an election week. Okay, seven
days nothing bad. Seven days from today, all of this
will be over, hopefully or maybe it just all begins.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, what you have to hope for is a decisive
victory from either side so no one can dispute it, right.
I don't want to have four or five counties deciding
everything in the hundreds of votes.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, here's my prediction. Everybody's going to get their crap
together and be buttoned up, said and done. Except for Pennsylvania.
They're going, oh my gosh, we had no idea we
had to count votes Arizona and Arizona, they was gonna say, impossibly.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Nevada, Nevada. By there was just a court ruling that said,
even if you don't have a postmark, if it shows
up four days later, we're still going to count the vote.
That's stupid, of course it is. You know, the deadline.
If you don't vote by the deadline, your vote doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The only reason these sorts of things exist is to
perpetuate voter fraud. That's the only reason IDAs vote. I'm sorry,
prove who you are, and you get to do that once.
People that say IDs are racist, No, it's voter fraud.
I don't understand or the whole Uh, how do you
get a checking account? How do you get a driver's license?
I don't have an idea. That's racist?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What I mean? You need a identification for just about anything.
Of course I use to get personal ideas. In some states.
Isn't a required law over eighteen? You have to have
some kind of identification begin with.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The only people that would say IDs are bad are
ones that want to cheat.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hands down, no question. Let's end on a good note.
How come like this ever happens to me?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I was just gonna be one of those that I
like the picture. It was a bowl of fruit and
there was a Picasso on the backside.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Uh better?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is this the coin?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No? I want you, I want I want you to
meet and from a Boone, North Carolina. I want you
to meet Jerry Hicks. Who Jerry Hicks?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I love Boone by the way. That whole area is
gorgeous and now devastated.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Not familiar with I am familiar with Boone's farm. That
was no TJ. Swan.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, they're a little There's a little town called well
Blowing Rock that's a beautiful little place. Black Mountain outside
of Asheville got it really hard.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's where my in laws have their cabin black. Yeah,
it's beautiful, it really is.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
There's this little university called Montreat and as it's on
this big lake, lake, big lake, and it's it's all
made of stone. I mean, it's like you're back in
the fifteen hundreds or something. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I remember I wet to the cabin. Didn't really want
to because it wasn't in my basement. But once I
got their head, damn, good times.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was just it's some micro breweries in town. It's
just a nice little place.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's a great place.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I got ten miles outside of Ashville.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
One day, one guy's unlucky day.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Or girl, I don't see gender admirable.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Turn into a person turned into a person's really really
really lucky day. Talking about Jerry Hicks. He found a
twenty dollars bill.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh I saw this one.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Obviously somebody lost. Don't know if he'd tried to return.
Of course he didn't return it, right, I mean, it's
twenty bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Were you gonna take an ad in the paper or
walk in the store and go, did someone in here
drop this twenty?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Wait a minute before I give it to you, tell
me what this twenty. Describe what it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Looks like it's kind of greenish, and his paper and
it's a tune of zero on it. The kids, Dave
give it to him, it must be his.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He took the twenty dollars to a convenience store and
he invested in a scratch off lottery ticket. Found money.
Why not, It's called extreme cash ticket lived up to
his name. Ended ended up being worth one million dollars.
So he took the cash option and celebrated the windfall.
They said, how are going to celebrate soup? We're going
(13:22):
to Golden Corral with you everything they got.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And maybe do it again.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Maybe do it again.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
He said, he's been a carpenter for like fifty six
years and he's still working. Thinks he might retire. Well,
although in North Carolina they could use his skills right now. Unfortunately,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If a million dollars. You can't retire on a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, if he's been carpentering, so to speak, for fifty
six years and he was fifteen when he started. Now,
now it's not going to last you that long. It's
probably six hundred and fifty thousand after taxes.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, but you still, you know, you pay it I mean, if.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Your house is paid for, if your cars are paid for,
you can get yourself to your Social Security on that
if you're smart.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, all right, let's do it. Let's do joke of
the day.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay, let's get this citadel. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I'm gonna need I'm gonna need the music music. Hey Dave.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh, by the way, I thought that joke, I told
what we can do again. At some point with the
horse and the Chicken went by too quick, I thought
at the end when the guy says, why the long face?
The horse should go, Well, we were watching MTV and
then I saw this guy playing guitar, and then you
get through it again and a guy says down and said, hey,
why the long face? Well about two months ago, just.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
A vicious loop it is. Maybe we do that the
entire show.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That wouldn't be good.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It'd be great. Hey Dave, Hey Dwight. There's two bow
Weavils growing up in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's where they live.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh. One of the bow weavils went off to Hollywood
and became a famous actor.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wow, he's walking in high cotton.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Like a lot of bow weavils. Do you know? The
other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted a.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Much uh hard worker though.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, naturally that one became to known became to be
known as the lesser of two weavils. I'm putting a
dollar in, even though even though the community music, I'm
putting a dollar in. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Hey, I didn't expect it to end that quickly, she said,
what's his name? Hey?
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oh one Preston Highway, stick around. More on the Way
including news at the bottom of the hour, and then
we're talking MSD with Scott Reid at nine thirty. It's
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all on the Way in news radio eight forty. Whas
got a little bit lou Refield to.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Oh man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I have to apologize to Tony because this is actually
on topic. Mister Venetti, Yeah, oh is he doing the
whole No, he says, I don't think those poop.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Zones all the more reason to play them if you
ask me exactly as we hear whatever everybody knows to
be Come on, counselman Scott Reid's walk up music and
it's very fitting as we're gonna be talking about MSD
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starting off. But first, how you doing, countsmen Read, good
to see you, very.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Good to see you too, Dwight and doing very well.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I saw your cringing during the US playing your song
that was not requested by you. Obviously that was not good.
Let's talk about poop though with Countsman Scott Read. Let's
talk about MSD. It was back in twenty twenty one.
You I believe you started to have an audit and
we were still understaffed. X y Z. Did it ever happen? No?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
No, Actually, actually what happened was I had conversations with
auditor at that time, Auditor Harmon's office, about an MSD
audit because every year, at least seven of the last
ten years, they've raised their rates six point nine percent,
which they can do by ordinance. They can go up
to seven percent without metro Cacil approval.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay, so they can go up to seven percent, right,
but after seven percent of rate increase then they need
you all to approve it. That's correct. So of course
they go to six point nine or right up to
seven every single year.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And look, you know, I'm not saying that that they're
doing anything nefarious, anything wrong. I just think that by
requesting an audit with now Auditor Ball's office.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
That we need some transparence. We need to know why
every year.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You know, we're talking about the taxpayer who's struggling with electricity,
they're struggling with gas.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
They're struggling with grocery.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Everything is struggling with everything that's right, madro By Dizzy
Wizz today and it was nine ninety nine for a
Wizburger and that's right, I drive by it every day.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Used to be five fifty five.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, so even even with the Whizburgers are even more
so anyway. So again and in ten years their budget
has gone from two hundred two hundred million to over
eight hundred million now, so I just think the public
needs to know with some transparency what's going on.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
And again it could be all.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Very legitimate, but utter de Ball's office has been very
open about this and they have started an audit.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You know, we left England because of taxation without representation.
Look where we sit now. As a matter of fact,
a lot of the times it's not even up to
the government. It's independent boards JCPS school board. They raise
theirs arbitrarily every single year to MSD on and on
and on and on. I tell you I don't trust
the government, but I trust the government more than the
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board of an organization, you know what I mean? Yeah? Well,
you know again, I mean, why wouldn't you want to raise?
If I could give myself a seven percent raise every
single year, don't you think I would do it well?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And again, Look, you know we do have infrastructure needs
in the city. I do know that our sewage of
the city is very old. It goes back and I
think it's even dated back to the Civil War.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, well, KYP, pause just for one second. What company
doesn't set aside money for prevent and maintenance? Because they
gave that argument a few years back. They said, you
ought don't understand our sewers haven't been updated for a century.
Some of them haven't been updated for one hundred years.
Well why not.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Well that's what we're going to find out.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
So I'm just as eager to see this MSD audit
from the state as anyone.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, we're going to find out. I mean though I
know Auditor Ball, I know her staff, I know other staff.
I've had conversations with them, and I know they're going
to do a great job and they'll be very thorough.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So the public is going to get some answers.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We let's talk timeline. How long ago did it start?
And when are we going to see the results? I mean,
who knows? Is there an open timeline? Well? Did to
start and when can we expect?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I had my initial conversations with Auditor Ball's office as
early as February of twenty twenty four. Okay, so at
that point it was a matter of her getting the
resources internally aligned to begin the audit, which they have done.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
It could take a year.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I know that they've got another big audit with the JCPS,
so you know, they only have so many people. But
I do know that it has begun and they've started it.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I can't put a.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Timeline on it, but what I can say is that
I'm just as eager to see it as anyone when
it does come out.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, let's talk about optics, because perception is reality. I'm sorry,
until you disprove it, it is what it is. Out
of the top ten city employees, five of the top
ten of the highest paid city employees are MSD workers.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Well, that would be public employees, through public employees throughout
the state the state.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, throughout the state.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So that was per a Business First article that came
out a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, that's bad optics. When you're constantly increasing.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Well, I think the public needs to know why. I mean,
you know, and you're right, I mean, when.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You're giving the CEOs sixteen whatever it was, percent increase
in light of these constant rate increases each year, I
believe the public needs to know why it. Again, there
could be a very legitimate reason why. I will tell
you that the people that we work with with MSD
in our office at the Metro Council early aisons, they're
very good, They're great people. So this is in no
way indicative of their job, the job that they do
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for the city. This is just, you know, lift up
the door.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And let's try to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Is there a way to readjust this where there's more
checks and balances, for example, instead of allowing them to
raise rates up to seven percent annually, that everything would
have to be approved for you all.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
First, well, I think that it's something that at the
end of this audit.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
That we should look at.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I do too, if in fact a case, but again,
you know, let's just wait and see what this audit is.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I mean, it could be again, totally legitimate, but we're
going to see.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
We're going to find out.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And I do know that would you like to make
a wager, I'll talk to you off Michael on that.
Let's shift get let's talk about housing. Let's talk about zoning.
You know, on social media, there's groups there seems to
be it looks like what it appears to be nefarious
things going on throughout the city when it comes to
housing in zoning. Is there some kind of what's going
(23:17):
on now where they're trying to circumvent Metro Council on zoning?
Am I off base on that? To go on? Let's
go back? Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Okay, So let me first say that I truly appreciate
Mayor Greenberg and the way that he's reaching out to
everybody on the Metro Council's communicating with us much much
much better than his predecessor. That doesn't mean that at
some point, and by the way I like him personally,
I like him personally too. Yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He is a good guy.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
But that doesn't mean that we're not going to have
at some point some policy difference absolutely, which is which
is what we're coming up with with with the middle
housing proposal that he came out with earlier in twenty
twenty four. And basically what that means is that there's
an effort to change the zoning in that I believe
would be detrimental to the established neighborhoods, particularly in District sixteen,
because we have probably if I had to guess, more
(24:08):
Hoas than any other district, and I know that we
have the second most suburban cities, we have fourteen suburban cities.
So essentially, what it means is that he's trying to
get more density into different areas of the city, more
housing options, be it town homes, duplexes, manufactured homes, et cetera,
which in and of itself is not a bad goal.
(24:31):
The problem that I have with it is that we
cannot have a one size fits all approach because in
my case with Hoa's they're deed restricted, so they're restricted
to our four single family He wants to make what
is called right zoning. So let's take, for example, if
you want to build apartments, if Dwight wouldn't wanted to
build apartments out somewhere, the proper the way that it
(24:56):
works now, as you would go to the Planning and
Zoning Commission, you fill out an apple location, there would
be public hearings.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
The Planning Commission then would have.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
A vote, and then from that point it would go
to the Metro Council's Planning and Zoning Committee. Which I'm
the vice chair of, for a vote up or down,
and then it would go to the full Council.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
For a vote, as it should in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So what this proposal does is he wants to take
the automatic zoning classification from our for single family, which
is what we have now, to our for multifamily.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So that means that if you wanted to develop, if
you were trying to get our for multifamily zoning, then
it would not come to the Metro Council Planning and
Zoning Committee for vote. It would go straight into an
ordinance basically. So I have a problem with that. I've
been on record from the beginning by saying that maybe
we can come up with a compromise, but as this
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plan stands now, I think it would have a detrimental
impact on single family residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
While in South louisvill on Dixie Highway, there's an organization
and they're watchdogs over this, and they show up to
meetings and they and they show up, you know, on votes,
and it sounds to me like because of that, it's
resistance and this right zoning is trying to circumvent any
kind of resistance and give them just a blank check
(26:14):
to do whatever they want.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Well, it's something that I'm opposed to.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I think.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I think that in the end that each Metro council
person should have a say in their district kind of
the kind of development that goes into their district.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, more importantly, the constituents of the council person. You
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I mean we represent the constituents.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
As absolutely you know. And and that's where I was
going is you you have been voted in because your
views align with the constituents of your district, so it
makes sense at least you should have a seat at
the table. I agree, Yeah, I'm with you on that.
What else, what tell me some positive things coming out
of your district before we end on this?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well, I mean lots of positive things. We just had
new pickleball courts. It's about six weeks ago. New pickleball
courts at He's Kennedy Park.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, hang on one second, note to self build orthopedic center
next to park. Got it?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Good idea?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
How come every every time that somewhat our a's plays pickleball,
an orthopedis gets a new boat.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Well, you know, what can I say? I think it's
a do you play?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I do?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do you make? Do you make a tennis noise? No?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
No, no, no, I'm an ex tennis player, So.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Are you really? I am? What was your tennis noise? Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I didn't really grunt that much. Every time I would
try the Andrea Acasy thing, it would just it would
mine's this embarrass me?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Hey, it's pretty good right now.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
That sounds more like Monica Sella.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So pickleball courts and are they being used?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
There's already not very popular, very very popular, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I think this thing, the pickleball is very not only
is it popular with older people like us, but it's
becoming very popular with millennials. Yeah, I think I think
it's got some some longevity in front of it.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
What else you got going for? Twenty twenty four is
just about wrapped up, you guys every Thursday. What else
can we look about for Metro Council to be tackling
before the years up?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Well, I haven't seen anything really significant. We've had actually
some quiet months, which is surprising, so you never know.
I mean, something could come up on the docket, but
I haven't seen anything what I would consider to be
something that would keep us in a meeting until midnight,
which we've had We've had done on several on several occasions.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
What is there a Metro Council Christmas party that you
all go to? There is? Okay, I've got some jokes
that I'm gonna give you that are gonna make you famous. Okay,
I mean you'll be on the news the next day.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I'm not sure that it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Listen, Please keep us up to date on this, msd Audit,
I will do that. Also, keep us updated on this
right zoning because it's the wrong way to goal it
really is it just I'm not saying it is nefarious,
but if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck,
it's duck.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Is the mayor going to put one of those developments
in his neighborhood first, just to show us how it works?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, that's a very good question. So it remay us
to be seen as the proposal is.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I'm opposed to it, so let's put it that way.
There be there's gonna be a lot of discussion moving forward.
I am on the ad hoc committee that's studying it,
So we have a long way to go before the
final vote is taken.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Let me ask you one more. Let's go back to that,
well just for a second before I let you go,
is this common in any other cities? Because this sounds
like it doesn't sound like it's common anywhere. Do you
know that answered that you may not know, Well, I
do know.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
What's unique is that Louisville is very unique.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
We have a lot of our four single family areas,
and we have a lot of suburbs, and we have
an inordinate amount of suburban cities, which I'm very proud
to represent. So if you take, for example, Minneapolis that
made a proposal in front of us or presentation, it's
one big urban area, right, So you can do that there.
I mean the issue here is that, you know, let's
(29:55):
say in your neighborhood, you don't have the parking for it,
you don't have the many neighbors, it don't have sidewalks,
so you know, it just wouldn't work, right, But it
would work in certain areas like Minneapolis. Or let's take
for example, the suburban city of Prospect. They do have
middle housing, but they also have their own zoning and
they could plan for it, right, So you know, if
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it's planned for again the end result. I think it's
something we can work for, but it just doesn't work
in all areas. We can't have a single, you know,
one size fits all solution.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
We just can't. He has counselman Scott Reed doing good
for the neighborhood, his neighborhood and our neighborhood. Listen, keep
us up to date on this. We appreciate more, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Thank you very much.
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news Radio eight forty whas
Oh yeah, Welcome to Taco Tuesday, Dave Jennings. I'm Dwight
whitting Tony Venetti is having anal rejuvenation surgery. I think
is that what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's a new prosigere. I'm not real familiar with it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hang on, what's hip a law? What? Oh? Oh, Tony's
just out today, Dave, Oh gotcha? News Radio eight forty whas.
How about them Dodgers? Baby? How about that? To start
off three to nothing? They leave the series over the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Now you have some kind of tie to the Los
Angeles dostris. You've never mentioned it before on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Darn you, Dave Jennings. You know how I don't like
to talk about my personal life or my in laws.
We appreciate that, but I'm gonna I'll break the fourth wall. Yes,
my sister in laws. I guess my wife too. Their
nephew plays for the Dodgers. Oh yeah, I never I
like to talk about that. But how about that?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You know, I gotta wonder.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So if he walked into a room with him, would
he go uncle Wright?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
He would probably uh run and jump on my lap.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
He Sammy.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Uh, the cool thing is so last Tuesday him and
his wife just had a baby, and then just a
few days later he's playing in the World Series. But
my sister in law and brother in law Kathy and
Scott Young flew out to Los Angeles for game one
and game two.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
What what games? I think it was was? Game two
was won by a Grand Slam walk off, Grand Slam
home run.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yep, there a game away from sweeping.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So if you're if you're a Dodger, now listen, winning
the World Series is winning the World Series pretty terrific,
right you would think, But does it take a little
bit out of that when you win it on the road.
I mean every team wants to win it at home, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
But you don't want to go three games to one,
and I hope you went at home. No, Ideally you'd
win at home in front of the home fans. You'd
have your own bed and shower later on. But you'll
take the four game sweep all day long.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
No, absolutely. I think one of the greatest Worlds heeries
well of my lifetime that I remember at least it
gotten me this way is when was it ninety or
ninety one when Cincinnati Reds were taken on the Oakland
A's and the Oakland A's it was Conseco. They were
the biggest, they were baddest, and they said that they
were going to sweep Cincinnati in four mm hmm. Then
(02:34):
Cincinnati sweeped them, and for that was that Chris Sable team,
just that great Reds team.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I went to a World Series game when I lived
in Wisconsin. It was nineteen eighty two. I think Brewers Cardinals.
We lost in seven. I think I was at Game five.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Pretty cool, I h I texted my sister in law
Kathy the night of the game while they're at the game,
out of curiosity, I said, Hey, how much is the
ticket anyway? The World Series? And she said, oh, you know,
nothing when your nephew plays for him. But I'm gonna
text her back because I want to find out exactly
what the face value is on one of those tickets.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now she's staying with them? If not, how much of
the hotels?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Oh no, she wasn't staying with them because they have
a they live in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh okay, but then they just.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Rent an apartment in La because of taxes, you know,
I mean they're running their own people out anyway. Congratulations
to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hope they sweep them in
New York. FTC and Federal Trade Commission. I like this,
but I'm wondering how they're gonna enforce it. It's got
(03:41):
stuff fine too. The Federal Trade Commission is not gonna
take fake reviews and testimonials online. You know, when you
slam a company or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right, who determines what's fake?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Because there are a lot of fake positives. So I
know some business that just opens magically one thousand and
five star reviews.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Wow, I didn't even think about that. I see. I
went straight for the negative of other businesses, not like you.
I went straight for other businesses trying to torpedo their competition.
But that's a good point, Dave. It could be it
could be your positive reviews inflating the UH And.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Just like content online, you know who's the arbiter, right,
who's to say what's misinformation and not so?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
In a statement, the FTC said, under the new rule,
anyone who participates in a fake online review and it
doesn't say positive or negative, so you're right, yeah, could
be fined up to fifty one, seven hundred and forty
four dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
How do you approve it?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
What's about? What's a person?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
That's a great point. That's a great point.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Sorry, I didn't mean to shoot the story down.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, No, is iPhone sixteen? Is that a newer one
or an older one? Which one is that?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And well I have the iPhone eight? Okay, so it's
newer than that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Listen, man, and I mean this with all sincerity, Dave.
A lot of women find flip phones attractive.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
My wife loved her pink Razor phone from back in
the day, and then Razor came out with a new one.
But it's like fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Are you serious? Yes, he's the older Razor.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
As a heart attack? Sorry, Tony, Oh sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's texting yesterday on something and I said, I'm dead serious,
and I started to say I'm serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I think we need to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You can't laugh about almost dying. What can you do?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I got to hear about the heart smart crap every day.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We always did.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let me just go, I'm gonna go to the Google machine.
Hang on, what would that be? Which model is.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The This pause is brought to you by Tuckos sput Nickutnick.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, oh it's the new one.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's the newest okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So the newest iPhone. Let me get back to spot
Nick boom boom. The Apple iPhone six is now prohibited
in Indonesia, meaning you can't buy one, or you can't
use one, and even just as equally as important, you
can't have one in your possession.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Can you have an Android phone?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, but you can have any iPhone except for the
iPhone sixteen. It's now illegal in Indonesia. Why because the
Industry Minister announced that the iPhone sixteen doesn't or six
sixteen actually sixteen doesn't have the International Mobile Equipment Identity
(06:53):
Certification for use in Indonesia, meaning I don't know what
that means. But even if you're traveling, the band is
so strict that if you're traveling to Indonesia, you got
two choices. Get a second phone or don't go, or
just have your phone confiscated.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What number is greater? The people listening right now that
are going to Indonesia with an iPhone sixteen are the
people listening right now that are going to the iHeart
Music Festival in Las Vegas. Are those both zeros?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, I think there's a chance people are going.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
To to Indonesia's a good chance of that.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh, speaking of phone, So this is way back in
the day when smartphones are just coming out. We found
some Chinese knockoff phones. They had little stylus it with
you know, stick to the phone you use that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I got one.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It would just you know, random like half nude women
pictures would pop up wherever you go. But it had
this feature where if you're leaving someone a voicemail, you
could set the background noise. Oh, it would be traffic, outdoors, whatever.
So you can say, honey's stuck in traffic. Uh, it's
probably gonna be an hour or so, and then behind
you is the sound of traffic.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's pretty cool, is it. Now that's a feature you
can use and listen to this man. So I had
I think it was Friday. I had to call the
uh one of the new girls, Kate okay, and I
had a question about one of her accounts, and it
goes straight to voicemail, like when anyone sees my number,
that's usually what happens. But I started I started talking, Hey, Kate,
(08:23):
I just talked to such and such and whatever was
going on, and then all of a sudden, a sudden,
it picks up. Hey, this is kate, like an old
timey answering machine. Evidently on the iPhone they have a
thing now where you can be listening to the message
and you can pick up oh, like an old you know,
like an old answer machine. Sure, so I said, up, sorry,
(08:44):
I sent a text to this. Is this not your
cell phone? She goes, No, it's it's my cell phone.
I had no idea they were doing that. No.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And then they can also screen, and you say spam.
Likely it'll send a message to a scammer saying you're
being monitored and all this kind of stuff, so they
can be helpful. They can also listen and run your life.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, right, I know, VI, the CIA listening devices to
the point where I'll talk to Susan about something and
then I'll start getting ads served to me on social
media even Google.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
At this point, Yep, it's happened us too. Random stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
No one of them was really random. I'm not gonna
tell the story because it's an election week. Okay, seven
days nothing bad. Seven days from today, all of this
will be over, hopefully or maybe it just all begins.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, what you have to hope for is a decisive
victory from either side so no one can dispute it, right.
I don't want to have four or five counties deciding
everything in the hundreds of votes.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, here's my prediction. Everybody's going to get their crap
together and be buttoned up, said and done. Except for Pennsylvania.
They're going, oh my gosh, we had no idea we
had to count votes Arizona and Arizona, they was gonna say, impossibly.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Nevada, Nevada. By there was just a court ruling that said,
even if you don't have a postmark, if it shows
up four days later, we're still going to count the vote.
That's stupid, of course it is. You know, the deadline.
If you don't vote by the deadline, your vote doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The only reason these sorts of things exist is to
perpetuate voter fraud. That's the only reason IDAs vote. I'm sorry,
prove who you are, and you get to do that once.
People that say IDs are racist, No, it's voter fraud.
I don't understand or the whole Uh, how do you
get a checking account? How do you get a driver's license?
I don't have an idea. That's racist?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What I mean? You need a identification for just about anything.
Of course I use to get personal ideas. In some states.
Isn't a required law over eighteen? You have to have
some kind of identification begin with.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The only people that would say IDs are bad are
ones that want to cheat.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hands down, no question. Let's end on a good note.
How come like this ever happens to me?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I was just gonna be one of those that I
like the picture. It was a bowl of fruit and
there was a Picasso on the backside.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Uh better?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is this the coin?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No? I want you, I want I want you to
meet and from a Boone, North Carolina. I want you
to meet Jerry Hicks. Who Jerry Hicks?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I love Boone by the way. That whole area is
gorgeous and now devastated.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Not familiar with I am familiar with Boone's farm. That
was no TJ. Swan.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, they're a little There's a little town called well
Blowing Rock that's a beautiful little place. Black Mountain outside
of Asheville got it really hard.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's where my in laws have their cabin black. Yeah,
it's beautiful, it really is.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
There's this little university called Montreat and as it's on
this big lake, lake, big lake, and it's it's all
made of stone. I mean, it's like you're back in
the fifteen hundreds or something. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I remember I wet to the cabin. Didn't really want
to because it wasn't in my basement. But once I
got their head, damn, good times.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was just it's some micro breweries in town. It's
just a nice little place.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's a great place.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I got ten miles outside of Ashville.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
One day, one guy's unlucky day.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Or girl, I don't see gender admirable.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Turn into a person turned into a person's really really
really lucky day. Talking about Jerry Hicks. He found a
twenty dollars bill.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh I saw this one.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Obviously somebody lost. Don't know if he'd tried to return.
Of course he didn't return it, right, I mean, it's
twenty bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Were you gonna take an ad in the paper or
walk in the store and go, did someone in here
drop this twenty?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Wait a minute before I give it to you, tell
me what this twenty. Describe what it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Looks like it's kind of greenish, and his paper and
it's a tune of zero on it. The kids, Dave
give it to him, it must be his.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
He took the twenty dollars to a convenience store and
he invested in a scratch off lottery ticket. Found money.
Why not, It's called extreme cash ticket lived up to
his name. Ended ended up being worth one million dollars.
So he took the cash option and celebrated the windfall.
They said, how are going to celebrate soup? We're going
(13:22):
to Golden Corral with you everything they got.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And maybe do it again.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Maybe do it again.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
He said, he's been a carpenter for like fifty six
years and he's still working. Thinks he might retire. Well,
although in North Carolina they could use his skills right now. Unfortunately,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
If a million dollars. You can't retire on a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, if he's been carpentering, so to speak, for fifty
six years and he was fifteen when he started. Now,
now it's not going to last you that long. It's
probably six hundred and fifty thousand after taxes.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, but you still, you know, you pay it I mean, if.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Your house is paid for, if your cars are paid for,
you can get yourself to your Social Security on that
if you're smart.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, all right, let's do it. Let's do joke of
the day.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay, let's get this citadel. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I'm gonna need I'm gonna need the music music. Hey Dave.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh, by the way, I thought that joke, I told
what we can do again. At some point with the
horse and the Chicken went by too quick, I thought
at the end when the guy says, why the long face?
The horse should go, Well, we were watching MTV and
then I saw this guy playing guitar, and then you
get through it again and a guy says down and said, hey,
why the long face? Well about two months ago, just.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
A vicious loop it is. Maybe we do that the
entire show.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That wouldn't be good.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It'd be great. Hey Dave, Hey Dwight. There's two bow
Weavils growing up in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That's where they live.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Oh. One of the bow weavils went off to Hollywood
and became a famous actor.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wow, he's walking in high cotton.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Like a lot of bow weavils. Do you know? The
other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted a.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Much uh hard worker though.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, naturally that one became to known became to be
known as the lesser of two weavils. I'm putting a
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including news at the bottom of the hour, and then
we're talking MSD with Scott Reid at nine thirty. It's
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all on the Way in news radio eight forty. Whas
got a little bit lou Refield to.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Oh man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I have to apologize to Tony because this is actually
on topic. Mister Venetti, Yeah, oh is he doing the
whole No, he says, I don't think those poop.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Zones all the more reason to play them if you
ask me exactly as we hear whatever everybody knows to
be Come on, counselman Scott Reid's walk up music and
it's very fitting as we're gonna be talking about MSD
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starting off. But first, how you doing, countsmen Read, good
to see you, very.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Good to see you too, Dwight and doing very well.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I saw your cringing during the US playing your song
that was not requested by you. Obviously that was not good.
Let's talk about poop though with Countsman Scott Read. Let's
talk about MSD. It was back in twenty twenty one.
You I believe you started to have an audit and
we were still understaffed. X y Z. Did it ever happen? No?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
No, Actually, actually what happened was I had conversations with
auditor at that time, Auditor Harmon's office, about an MSD
audit because every year, at least seven of the last
ten years, they've raised their rates six point nine percent,
which they can do by ordinance. They can go up
to seven percent without metro Cacil approval.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay, so they can go up to seven percent, right,
but after seven percent of rate increase then they need
you all to approve it. That's correct. So of course
they go to six point nine or right up to
seven every single year.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And look, you know, I'm not saying that that they're
doing anything nefarious, anything wrong. I just think that by
requesting an audit with now Auditor Ball's office.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
That we need some transparence. We need to know why
every year.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You know, we're talking about the taxpayer who's struggling with electricity,
they're struggling with gas.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
They're struggling with grocery.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Everything is struggling with everything that's right, madro By Dizzy
Wizz today and it was nine ninety nine for a
Wizburger and that's right, I drive by it every day.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Used to be five fifty five.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, so even even with the Whizburgers are even more
so anyway. So again and in ten years their budget
has gone from two hundred two hundred million to over
eight hundred million now, so I just think the public
needs to know with some transparency what's going on.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
And again it could be all.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Very legitimate, but utter de Ball's office has been very
open about this and they have started an audit.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You know, we left England because of taxation without representation.
Look where we sit now. As a matter of fact,
a lot of the times it's not even up to
the government. It's independent boards JCPS school board. They raise
theirs arbitrarily every single year to MSD on and on
and on and on. I tell you I don't trust
the government, but I trust the government more than the
(19:31):
board of an organization, you know what I mean? Yeah? Well,
you know again, I mean, why wouldn't you want to raise?
If I could give myself a seven percent raise every
single year, don't you think I would do it well?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And again, Look, you know we do have infrastructure needs
in the city. I do know that our sewage of
the city is very old. It goes back and I
think it's even dated back to the Civil War.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, well, KYP, pause just for one second. What company
doesn't set aside money for prevent and maintenance? Because they
gave that argument a few years back. They said, you
ought don't understand our sewers haven't been updated for a century.
Some of them haven't been updated for one hundred years.
Well why not.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Well that's what we're going to find out.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
So I'm just as eager to see this MSD audit
from the state as anyone.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, we're going to find out. I mean though I
know Auditor Ball, I know her staff, I know other staff.
I've had conversations with them, and I know they're going
to do a great job and they'll be very thorough.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So the public is going to get some answers.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We let's talk timeline. How long ago did it start?
And when are we going to see the results? I mean,
who knows? Is there an open timeline? Well? Did to
start and when can we expect?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I had my initial conversations with Auditor Ball's office as
early as February of twenty twenty four. Okay, so at
that point it was a matter of her getting the
resources internally aligned to begin the audit, which they have done.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
It could take a year.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I know that they've got another big audit with the JCPS,
so you know, they only have so many people. But
I do know that it has begun and they've started it.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I can't put a.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Timeline on it, but what I can say is that
I'm just as eager to see it as anyone when
it does come out.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, let's talk about optics, because perception is reality. I'm sorry,
until you disprove it, it is what it is. Out
of the top ten city employees, five of the top
ten of the highest paid city employees are MSD workers.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Well, that would be public employees, through public employees throughout
the state the state.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, throughout the state.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
So that was per a Business First article that came
out a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I mean, that's bad optics. When you're constantly increasing.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Well, I think the public needs to know why. I mean,
you know, and you're right, I mean, when.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You're giving the CEOs sixteen whatever it was, percent increase
in light of these constant rate increases each year, I
believe the public needs to know why it. Again, there
could be a very legitimate reason why. I will tell
you that the people that we work with with MSD
in our office at the Metro Council early aisons, they're
very good, They're great people. So this is in no
way indicative of their job, the job that they do
(22:17):
for the city. This is just, you know, lift up
the door.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
And let's try to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Is there a way to readjust this where there's more
checks and balances, for example, instead of allowing them to
raise rates up to seven percent annually, that everything would
have to be approved for you all.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
First, well, I think that it's something that at the
end of this audit.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
That we should look at.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I do too, if in fact a case, but again,
you know, let's just wait and see what this audit is.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I mean, it could be again, totally legitimate, but we're
going to see.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
We're going to find out.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And I do know that would you like to make
a wager, I'll talk to you off Michael on that.
Let's shift get let's talk about housing. Let's talk about zoning.
You know, on social media, there's groups there seems to
be it looks like what it appears to be nefarious
things going on throughout the city when it comes to
housing in zoning. Is there some kind of what's going
(23:17):
on now where they're trying to circumvent Metro Council on zoning?
Am I off base on that? To go on? Let's
go back? Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Okay, So let me first say that I truly appreciate
Mayor Greenberg and the way that he's reaching out to
everybody on the Metro Council's communicating with us much much
much better than his predecessor. That doesn't mean that at
some point, and by the way I like him personally,
I like him personally too. Yeah, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He is a good guy.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
But that doesn't mean that we're not going to have
at some point some policy difference absolutely, which is which
is what we're coming up with with with the middle
housing proposal that he came out with earlier in twenty
twenty four. And basically what that means is that there's
an effort to change the zoning in that I believe
would be detrimental to the established neighborhoods, particularly in District sixteen,
because we have probably if I had to guess, more
(24:08):
Hoas than any other district, and I know that we
have the second most suburban cities, we have fourteen suburban cities.
So essentially, what it means is that he's trying to
get more density into different areas of the city, more
housing options, be it town homes, duplexes, manufactured homes, et cetera,
which in and of itself is not a bad goal.
(24:31):
The problem that I have with it is that we
cannot have a one size fits all approach because in
my case with Hoa's they're deed restricted, so they're restricted
to our four single family He wants to make what
is called right zoning. So let's take, for example, if
you want to build apartments, if Dwight wouldn't wanted to
build apartments out somewhere, the proper the way that it
(24:56):
works now, as you would go to the Planning and
Zoning Commission, you fill out an apple location, there would
be public hearings.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
The Planning Commission then would have.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
A vote, and then from that point it would go
to the Metro Council's Planning and Zoning Committee. Which I'm
the vice chair of, for a vote up or down,
and then it would go to the full Council.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
For a vote, as it should in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So what this proposal does is he wants to take
the automatic zoning classification from our for single family, which
is what we have now, to our for multifamily.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So that means that if you wanted to develop, if
you were trying to get our for multifamily zoning, then
it would not come to the Metro Council Planning and
Zoning Committee for vote. It would go straight into an
ordinance basically. So I have a problem with that. I've
been on record from the beginning by saying that maybe
we can come up with a compromise, but as this
(25:46):
plan stands now, I think it would have a detrimental
impact on single family residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
While in South louisvill on Dixie Highway, there's an organization
and they're watchdogs over this, and they show up to
meetings and they and they show up, you know, on votes,
and it sounds to me like because of that, it's
resistance and this right zoning is trying to circumvent any
kind of resistance and give them just a blank check
(26:14):
to do whatever they want.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Well, it's something that I'm opposed to.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I think.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I think that in the end that each Metro council
person should have a say in their district kind of
the kind of development that goes into their district.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, more importantly, the constituents of the council person. You
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I mean we represent the constituents.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
As absolutely you know. And and that's where I was
going is you you have been voted in because your
views align with the constituents of your district, so it
makes sense at least you should have a seat at
the table. I agree, Yeah, I'm with you on that.
What else, what tell me some positive things coming out
of your district before we end on this?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well, I mean lots of positive things. We just had
new pickleball courts. It's about six weeks ago. New pickleball
courts at He's Kennedy Park.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, hang on one second, note to self build orthopedic center
next to park. Got it?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Good idea?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
How come every every time that somewhat our a's plays pickleball,
an orthopedis gets a new boat.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Well, you know, what can I say? I think it's
a do you play?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I do?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Do you make? Do you make a tennis noise? No?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
No, no, no, I'm an ex tennis player, So.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Are you really? I am? What was your tennis noise? Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I didn't really grunt that much. Every time I would
try the Andrea Acasy thing, it would just it would
mine's this embarrass me?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Hey, it's pretty good right now.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
That sounds more like Monica Sella.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So pickleball courts and are they being used?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
There's already not very popular, very very popular, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I think this thing, the pickleball is very not only
is it popular with older people like us, but it's
becoming very popular with millennials. Yeah, I think I think
it's got some some longevity in front of it.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
What else you got going for? Twenty twenty four is
just about wrapped up, you guys every Thursday. What else
can we look about for Metro Council to be tackling
before the years up?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Well, I haven't seen anything really significant. We've had actually
some quiet months, which is surprising, so you never know.
I mean, something could come up on the docket, but
I haven't seen anything what I would consider to be
something that would keep us in a meeting until midnight,
which we've had We've had done on several on several occasions.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
What is there a Metro Council Christmas party that you
all go to? There is? Okay, I've got some jokes
that I'm gonna give you that are gonna make you famous. Okay,
I mean you'll be on the news the next day.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I'm not sure that it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Listen, Please keep us up to date on this, msd Audit,
I will do that. Also, keep us updated on this
right zoning because it's the wrong way to goal it
really is it just I'm not saying it is nefarious,
but if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck,
it's duck.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Is the mayor going to put one of those developments
in his neighborhood first, just to show us how it works?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, that's a very good question. So it remay us
to be seen as the proposal is.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I'm opposed to it, so let's put it that way.
There be there's gonna be a lot of discussion moving forward.
I am on the ad hoc committee that's studying it,
So we have a long way to go before the
final vote is taken.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Let me ask you one more. Let's go back to that,
well just for a second before I let you go,
is this common in any other cities? Because this sounds
like it doesn't sound like it's common anywhere. Do you
know that answered that you may not know, Well, I
do know.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
What's unique is that Louisville is very unique.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
We have a lot of our four single family areas,
and we have a lot of suburbs, and we have
an inordinate amount of suburban cities, which I'm very proud
to represent. So if you take, for example, Minneapolis that
made a proposal in front of us or presentation, it's
one big urban area, right, So you can do that there.
I mean the issue here is that, you know, let's
(29:55):
say in your neighborhood, you don't have the parking for it,
you don't have the many neighbors, it don't have sidewalks,
so you know, it just wouldn't work, right, But it
would work in certain areas like Minneapolis. Or let's take
for example, the suburban city of Prospect. They do have
middle housing, but they also have their own zoning and
they could plan for it, right, So you know, if
(30:18):
it's planned for again the end result. I think it's
something we can work for, but it just doesn't work
in all areas. We can't have a single, you know,
one size fits all solution.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
We just can't. He has counselman Scott Reed doing good
for the neighborhood, his neighborhood and our neighborhood. Listen, keep
us up to date on this. We appreciate more, you know.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Thank you very much.
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