I suppose with the trial judge coming, and the election a month away, Pawlowski doesn't have much time or reason to act dignified. He has been campaigning hard among the least informed in the city. On those notes, he has announced that Cedar Beach pool will be open this weekend.
“It has been a long haul to overcome the setbacks and get the project completed,” said Mayor Ed Pawlowski. “The walls are plaster, so the pool is never emptied. The weather is going to be warm, and the pool has passed all the necessary inspections, so I want to give our residents an opportunity to enjoy it, or just come out to see it, even if it is only for this weekend.”As an advocate for the park system, especially the crumbling WPA structures, I can only shake my head about Lindsay Taylor, the park director. She apparently goes along with Pawlowski's nonsense, or has no say in decisions concerning her department. If she's not embarrassed, she should be.
ADDENDUM: I have observed city employees adding water to the pool every day. A well placed source now informs me that indeed the new pool is leaking. This delayed, over budget pool project originally started because the previous version of the pool was leaking. Three years and $3 million later, is it still leaking?
UPDATE: Somebody on Facebook asked me if I'm sure the pool is leaking. That answer is NO. I am sure that I observed them adding water every day. My source tells me that the pool is losing up to 6 inches of water overnight.
Not being embarrassed is a resume enhancer in our city hall. Having no integrity helps as well.
ReplyDeleteNobody in the Pawlowski cabinet runs their department. With the abuses at AFD and APD, how do you think these department heads keep their jobs.
ReplyDeleteCedar Beach is just another Pawlowski fiasco that had cost overruns of 1.7 million dollars. This project should have been looked into by the Department of Justice but I guess they were too busy with the obvious crimes committed by the un-honorable mayor, Boss Hog!
rather than seed the grass area for this coming summer, they brought in sod for this weekend's pawlowski dog and pony show. meanwhile over in lehigh parkway, a stair landing in caving in on the WPA double stairway.
ReplyDeleteMM, if employees do not fall in line when its highness chimes in they too will have there government cheeze in the mancave basement cabinets!
ReplyDeleteThe whole of Allentown's park system is in disarray, not to mention neglected Maintenence. Hell that matches the rest of the city outside the Zone!
Ed will label the leak as an irrigation system and his voters will hail him a genius and Allentown's savior. Hallelujah and hosannas to Ed the king.
ReplyDeleteLeakin' like Mike Fleck, huh?
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