Comments on: Sand needed in brick paver crosswalks downtown: how to tell the city about it? http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/ The people, issues, and events of Northfield, MN Wed, 23 May 2012 17:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110906 Griff Wigley Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:20:40 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110906 A competitor to SeeClickFix is CitySourced: http://www.citysourced.com/ A competitor to SeeClickFix is CitySourced:
http://www.citysourced.com/

]]> By: Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110905 Griff Wigley Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:19:30 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110905 Phil, services like SeeClickFix take that into account, ie, people can weigh in to endorse what someone else has submitted. For example, see the service in action at this CT newspaper: http://www.journalinquirer.com/ Click thru to an issue, for exampl: http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/17851 you'll see "11 People want this fixed" with 18 comments attached. Phil, services like SeeClickFix take that into account, ie, people can weigh in to endorse what someone else has submitted. For example, see the service in action at this CT newspaper:

http://www.journalinquirer.com/

Click thru to an issue, for exampl:
http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/17851

you’ll see “11 People want this fixed” with 18 comments attached.

]]> By: Phil Poyner http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110898 Phil Poyner Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:01:03 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110898 I see a downside to what you're saying. Theoretically it may make sense to have a single problem submitted just once. But my experience has been that until a group of people submit the same problem, the problem can be discounted as simply one person's beef. I see a downside to what you’re saying. Theoretically it may make sense to have a single problem submitted just once. But my experience has been that until a group of people submit the same problem, the problem can be discounted as simply one person’s beef.

]]> By: Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110894 Griff Wigley Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:33:28 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110894 Phil/Kiffi, the reason that SeeClickFix works is because the information is public. Everyone gets to see what's submitted. Why have 10 people make phone calls to report the same thing? Then everyone gets to see how and when the problem gets resolved. If public works is responsive, they get kudos. If they're laggards, they get some heat. Transparency and accountability become simple. Not possible with a phone call. It's actually the same with just sending an email. What if ten people all emailed Joel Walinski like Bart deMalignon did, asking him about the yellow boom in the river. Joel would then have to reply ten times, unless of course, he had his own blog. ;-) Phil/Kiffi, the reason that SeeClickFix works is because the information is public. Everyone gets to see what’s submitted. Why have 10 people make phone calls to report the same thing? Then everyone gets to see how and when the problem gets resolved. If public works is responsive, they get kudos. If they’re laggards, they get some heat. Transparency and accountability become simple. Not possible with a phone call.

It’s actually the same with just sending an email. What if ten people all emailed Joel Walinski like Bart deMalignon did, asking him about the yellow boom in the river. Joel would then have to reply ten times, unless of course, he had his own blog. ;-)

]]> By: mike paulsen http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110848 mike paulsen Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:48:14 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110848 The city invites us to contact them via email and web forms. It is much more efficient than telephone, and should be the preferred method of contact. I sure hope that communications sent via email and the web form aren't ending up in the bit-bucket without being read. Assuming they are being read, how would (or should) leaving a phone message be any more likely to get a response? The city invites us to contact them via email and web forms. It is much more efficient than telephone, and should be the preferred method of contact.

I sure hope that communications sent via email and the web form aren’t ending up in the bit-bucket without being read. Assuming they are being read, how would (or should) leaving a phone message be any more likely to get a response?

]]> By: Phil Poyner http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110845 Phil Poyner Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:07:34 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110845 Apparently the one feature folks don't know how to use on their new-fangled "smart phones" is the phone part! Apparently the one feature folks don’t know how to use on their new-fangled “smart phones” is the phone part!

]]> By: kiffi summa http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110837 kiffi summa Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:31:23 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110837 What's the matter with telling the city about it by picking up your phone, calling public works dept, and telling them? If the e-remedies don't work, or the website isn't adequate, use your phone! What’s the matter with telling the city about it by picking up your phone, calling public works dept, and telling them?

If the e-remedies don’t work, or the website isn’t adequate, use your phone!

]]> By: mike paulsen http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110812 mike paulsen Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:48:53 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110812 <blockquote cite="Anyone else have any road or intersection concerns throughout the entire of our fair town?"> Now that you mention it.. 1. Honeylocust Drive (behind Target)- There is substantial weed growth between the road surface and the curb/gutter all along the section between the fields. 2. Sections of the Mill Towns Trail between Sechler Park and Dundas are deteriorating, including weeds growing in the middle of the trail. When I described the trail condition to someone who knows a bit about this sort of thing, his best guess (without having seen it himself) is that the base wasn't done well, resulting in variation in the asphalt thickness and trouble spots showing up where it's thin. In both cases, timely maintenance seems necessary or there will be a rapid deterioration. The MNDoT published a study on <a href="http://www.lrrb.org/pdf/200925TS.pdf" rel="nofollow">Preventive Maintenance for Recreational Trails.</a></blockquote>

Now that you mention it..
1. Honeylocust Drive (behind Target)- There is substantial weed growth between the road surface and the curb/gutter all along the section between the fields.

2. Sections of the Mill Towns Trail between Sechler Park and Dundas are deteriorating, including weeds growing in the middle of the trail. When I described the trail condition to someone who knows a bit about this sort of thing, his best guess (without having seen it himself) is that the base wasn’t done well, resulting in variation in the asphalt thickness and trouble spots showing up where it’s thin.

In both cases, timely maintenance seems necessary or there will be a rapid deterioration.

The MNDoT published a study on Preventive Maintenance for Recreational Trails.

]]> By: Michelle Hawkins http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110808 Michelle Hawkins Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:17:32 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110808 oops, I have a couple sticky keys and dying wire to keyboard,, will have to live with the typos oops, I have a couple sticky keys and dying wire to keyboard,, will have to live with the typos

]]> By: Michelle Hawkins http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110807 Michelle Hawkins Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:14:41 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110807 nyone else have any road or intersection concerns throughut the entire of our fair town? Maybe a list could be generated here and presented with perhaps even e-signatures at the bottom to gain a more timely response. It would seem to me with fall/Winter a matter of weeks away, and the further toll it will take on our neighborhood streets and roads, now would be the time to git'erdone! nyone else have any road or intersection concerns throughut the entire of our fair town?

Maybe a list could be generated here and presented with perhaps even e-signatures at the bottom to gain a more timely response. It would seem to me with fall/Winter a matter of weeks away, and the further toll it will take on our neighborhood streets and roads, now would be the time to git’erdone!

]]> By: mike paulsen http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/comment-page-1/#comment-110803 mike paulsen Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:17:59 +0000 http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/18757/#comment-110803 <a href="http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/16457/comment-page-1/#comment-100542" rel="nofollow">Get in line.</a> Get in line.

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