First NXIVM and the gang will be happy to know I’m beginning a three part series documenting the failing Parks, Streets and general infrastructure of the City under Anthony “Skip” Scirocco Commissioner of Public Works..
Part 1
The Ponds of Congress Park
Well in what should have been a showcase of the jewel of Saratoga our own Congress Park, turned into a shocking display of incompetence and malfeasance as visitors for the cities All-American Celebration 2010 found algae blooms and sinkholes in the once pristine Park.
Guest and long term residents were appalled at the condition of the parks ponds which had degenerated into slimy cesspools of decomposing algae from premature blooming. Algae blooms will typically occur during the middle of the summer when the water temperature is high and there is plenty of light. The bloom can be harmful when the dead matter causes the oxygen levels of the pond to sink dramatically as it decomposes, it can also cause Toxic Gas,
So why are our beautiful ponds being turned into cesspools you ask? Well frankly Anthony “Skip” Scirocco Commissioner of Public Works doesn’t give a rats ass about them. In fact he sits in his office barking out commands exclaiming that he “was the highest vote getter in the City” Demanding that his son Mark Scirocco be hired in the Water Dept, claiming that his bloated and coddled work force is stretched to the breaking point, while the bored employees hide, drive in circles and chuckle behind his back. Oh the humanity of it all.
Even Pat Design who I’ve had my differences with is said to have been disgusted by the condition of the Park.
The Parks ponds are not beyond saving, though the last remaining fish may be doomed. Get off your ass Scirocco.
The main reason for any algae or aquatic plant problem is there are too many available nutrients in the water for the plants to grow and thrive. Grass clippings, leaves, runoff from fertilized lawns and animal waste (from geese, ducks, fish, etc.), and organic matter in the pond (dead aquatic plants) are some of the most common sources of nutrients in ponds.
The ponds must be cleaned out. This consists of physically removing aquatic plants by cutting or raking them out of the water. All the organic matter in the pond has nutrients in it and when it dies, it will release those nutrients that will be available for others in the future. Simply killing the plants doesn't do much for the overall problem, they need to be removed. The third step is to add aeration. The extra oxygen, will help the decomposition process occur faster and will help limit the amount of nutrients available. Also, the aeration will help vent some of the gases like carbon dioxide and others that contain nutrients that plants need to survive.
Understand you fucking moron. Kathy Moron when your done suing the City again could you read that last fucking paragraph to Skippy?
Next Up Saratoga Carousel, license to steal?
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So the harness track had fireworks saturday night and of course many people showed up. All the streets were lined with cars since the parking lots were over flowing. Guess what the town did? They gave everyone parking tickets. REALLY??? There were HUNDREDS of cars parked on the roads. Come on Saratoga, how low can you get. I'm not pissed about the $30 fine, it's that fact that you had people working on a saturday night giving tickets to hundreds of cars which means you had this planned. What a pathetic way for a town to fuck it's citizens celebrating a great holiday!!!!!!!!!
So Saratoga planned ahead of time to fuck over poor suckers watching fireworks? That is so typical of what NY has become. Government looks at it's citizens as prey to be caught and killed so it can grow. We all have targets on our backs because our gutless leaders have figured that if you pass a bunch of stupid laws covering common sense things like seat belts and cell phones people will be stupid and violate them. You then send out the cops to be tax collectors. Politicians know that because these minor "criminals" are lawbreakers no one will have any sympathy for them and question the real reason for this multitude of laws---MONEY. The little government loving zombies (usually employed by the government) will chant "You're a criminal, you got what you deserved". Meanwhile they know that their useless little jobs are now secure because the government has done a shake down on one more citizen.
When I was a kid I remember there was a running joke involving small southern towns which used speed traps to extract money from unsuspecting motorists. It was funny because it was so unfair as to be absurd. Now we have an entire state doing this and it's not funny anymore.
I can't believe Mary Lou Whitney would want to have her gala in this dump.Does she even know what a swamp this this place has turned into?
It's certainly become a challenge to schedule a nice Saratoga wedding. You can have it at the Casino (in the park that now smells bad) or the Hall of springs and hope Fish and or Dave Matthews aren't at SPAC.
Didn't Mary Lou make the one phone call to stop the grills and
$40. parking on Ballston Ave. during the Dave Matthews concert ?
I walk through the park frequently on my way downtown and have been dismayed to see the amount of litter that's now a constant. Also, moving away from the park--what about the half dead clumps of tall ornamental grasses Skippy has planted in the median strips near SPAC and the track. He can't blame this on budget cuts--ornamental grasses cost $ too. We've gone from winning a prize for the flowers that decorated the city and became part of the draw for tourists coming to the city to this embarrassment.
At least we know who's responsible for the demise of Congress Park and have a chance to hire someone better next year in city elections for Commissioners. The Charter change folks would have us wait 4 years to try to elect a majority of a city council who would then maybe, depending on his/her contract, fire the city manager who indirectly through his/her mismanagement of whomever was in charge of buildings and grounds maybe created the problems we're seeing.
The Charter revisionists have little idea how this problem with the sorrowful condition of the ponds in the park would be handled. A complaint to one’s volunteer representative would be brought to some little table for discussion. This concern would be managed along with other trivial concerns of a particular wardsperson and most likely overlooked as an overstated problem with the directive for DPW to ‘get on it’. The Administrator would be nicely sequestered behind close doors and buffered by no less than two executive secretaries and the issue of the dirty park will never touch the lily-white desk of the ‘person in charge’. A few years into making sweeping executive decisions, this Administrator (a highly paid professional) will be seeking future employment with another community in order to advance his/her salary with the cache of this City’s name. The residents will not be representented directly by responsible elected officials and the truly democratic process will have been lost.
Don’t like the abuse of a school system that owns and inefficiently runs a school bus fleet? Call the administrator. Don’t like the way the policies at SPAC are meted out? Call the administrator. Good luck on those scenarios. Yet I still like the old fashion way – go to the Council or the Commissioner’s office and state your case. It’s worked and for all these years and this city has much to be proud of.
Herb Morrison would agree with you these days: Oh the humanity!
I love your blog. It's so truthful and what NY really needs now is truth.
I'd like to know if anyone has the balls and the time to run a similar blog about Troy?
I live in this shithole that is Troy. I would love to see the behind the scenes politics outed as you do for the saratoga residents.
Can you recommend a Troy blogger or start your own please?!
THANKS!
I also must ask... by posting the things you do, you must have become a target for many people who have great power... like the police etc etc etc. Do you ever personally feel harassed because of your blog?
Do I feel harassed? One word fuck'em
On an unrelated note, did you see the Saratogian's lead story in sports today? It was about sandlot baseball. Not even Little League (which is bad enough), but sandlot baseball. turns out a couple area dads get kids together in a park to play pickup baseball. gee whiz, Andy Bernstein, that sure sounds like a lead story to me. You are too stupid a fuck to even live. No wonder your readers keep leaving. A parent calls up and says he has kids playing rec baseball and just like that the Togian shows up for a major story. Hey Andy, if I have an athletic ontest in which me and my friend both masterbate in your face to see who cums more will you put it in the paper? I consider it a sport, and after all I'm sure more people would like to see that than your sandlot baseball coverage.
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