So Bicknell spent 5 million dollars of the people’s monies and the plant still overflows! Spring rains and an overflowing sewer plant; just as it was before our town went into debt 5 million dollars as per IDEM’s orders and our last mayor and council’s lack of leadership and balls.

IDEM came to Bicknell and buffaloed our weak government into selling out the people and Bicknell’s future.
I argued for the repair of the sewer lines prior to the unnecessary building of a costly sewer plant. I pointed out how the old sewer plant could handle the population of Bicknell if the city repaired the sewer lines and upgraded the old plant which would have taken about 4 years and cut the cost from 5 million dollars to less than 1 million dollars. Our system was supposed to be a sealed system and was not capable of handling ground water and the forced flow of the many Bicknell sump pumps.

I told the city that IDEM would never leave if they let them in the front door but the city would not listen and bent over and kissed a lot of IDEM ass; now IDEM is pointing out that Bicknell is still under an agreed order and they will force the city to replace and when it comes to the council who are sitting now Bicknell is in worse shape than it was with the last IDEM ass kissing council.

I guess here we go again with IDEM looking to push more cost on the residents of Bicknell and we have another ass kissing council sitting who can’t handle actual business that could cut the cost of living in Bicknell but has plenty of time to harass horse and rental owners and any number of self fulfilling ordinance passing to make their life easier but with no thought of the rest of the people. You know like a councilman’s mother has a problem with a lazy horse owning neighbor so outlaw horses, a dirty yard so charge landlords to pay the city to inspect; pay every year but they only inspect once every two years. I guess the inspection isn’t as important as the annual collections.

We’re building new houses in a dead housing market that will, if their plans go right, sell for something like half price; but only for people who make less than 40 thousand a year who of course cannot get financing in this Obama market. On top of that it appears that the mayor has allowed new rental complexes to be built in Bicknell so that those who struggled for years to maintain rental houses will have more competition from the city who will be selling units at bargain prices but wants to charge those who have been struggling in Bicknell for 20 years, good plan mayor.

Bicknell needs to look to Matt to clean up the sewer leakage problems, run off IDEM telling them to look to Indianapolis where they live and has more leaks in one rain than Bicknell does in 40 years. Bicknell needs to work with landlords not make it more costly than it already is to do business in Bicknell; Bicknell needs to change the horse ordinance to read keep them clean and require a quarter acre per horse and the city needs to forget attacking people and spend time thinking about getting business to come to Bicknell, hint cut the cost of living here and leave the business community alone.

In my opinion
John R. Stanczak