The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
QUESTION: What are the top 3 issues you think your city should focus on?
Talk about it.
Crime, Crime & more Crime. Until we get that under control we got nothing.
Crime, expired vehicle registrations, school absenteeism.
1) a good Mom & Pop “Q” & Tater Tot Joint
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2) Stop providing Homeless Services
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3) Eliminate related encampments
The filth created by the homeless, illegal invaders, and too much traffic.
Solution: Make the city an undesirable place for the homeless to live, and they will leave.
Round up all the illegals and send them to Martha’s Vineyard. Once they are gone, the traffic will lighten up.
It won’t happen, but one can dream.
Crime
Homeless
The solutions are easy.
Just get it done.
Then fix it.
The economy. It’s the root of all the problems. 😬
Crime
Poor representation in the House
Poor city planning (cramming so much into such small spaces-i.e., that new hotel wedged in at Market/Clayton/Willow Pass, the car wash on Oak Grove, with the added stop lights every 20 ft – OK not 20 feet, but too many lights).
Crossing Guards (lack of). Safety first education classes. And lack of compassion and reality beliefs. (peer pressure). < thee fine art called Denial. (Substance abuse).
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Crime, illegals, & the homeless.
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Budgets, over-spending, & taxation.
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Can’t find 93 octane.
-Crime
-Become friendly to small business
-Get rid of those “cones of equity” or whatever they call those lane dividers that look like boat harbor buoys. They give neighborhoods that “Let a Winnebago croak on your front lawn and mow around it” sort of vibe.
Poor roads, poor governance and dumb left turn signals at too many intersections (try using a flashing yellow like many other states do).
Nasty neighbors that work nights, want me & my G.S.D. (not incessant barking) to be quiet during the day.
One behind me’s thrown broken coffee mugs, meth pipe, soda bottle filled w/yellow substance, that my g.s. has found. He lives in a 10×7 shed 1 foot from the fence, yells obscenities & threats.
I am 68 y.o., he might be 30-40.
Says he rents, that I am using all the SSI, etc.
City of Conc. ‘Cop’s won’t even go have a talk with him.
I’ve lived in Conc. 60 yrs.-it’s soooo GHETTO now 😪
” Robberies are a common problem for Bay Area cannabis stores, with stores losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in product and altercations occasionally turning violent. A suspected thief was shot and killed by police outside a Martinez pot shop last August, while a police officer was killed after a burglary in progress was reported at a pot business in Oakland in January”. I found this news article I’ve quoted in the San Jose Spotlight webzine, it seems to buttress what I am saying in regards to City of Concord officials championing the opening of Cannabis stores in Concord. City officials just drooled about the added tax revenue the stores would bring; I recall the former Concord PD Chief was an enthusiastic backer of cannabis stores coming to Concord, as was these bigs wigs for the City of Concord who make 275K a year. Anybody who looks at the salaries City of Concord officials make, along with the fantastic salaries being paid to PD officers (in a city where there is little serious crime) can readily see the city is not hard up for tax dollars. The City should not be encouraging drug use among young people. These cannabis stores are owned and run by flakes (drug dealers pretending to be legitimate), they sell a product that is dangerous (a product that leads users to try harder drugs), they attract criminal types who stop by to rob the stores, and they lead to more drivers driving around the community “pie eyed”. Concord is a less safe place with these cannabis stores , thanks to the bigwigs who run Concord. Blame the PD department too. I don’t recall a single officer saying, “Uh maybe we can do without these cannabis stores”.