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8 Million dollar budget for street improvements in Columbus · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salitations. Welcome my friends to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on Chuck Douglas. You know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: We take it from there. We get one hour together,
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  Speaker 1: six' ten DOU. Wtv and all, Right so ending the
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  Speaker 1: last hour of The Blazer show, THERE i was talking
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  Speaker 1: about the city budget that city council approved last, night
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  Speaker 1: three billion. Dollars it's a three year. Budget, now this
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  Speaker 1: is twenty twenty. Five we are in mid twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Five the mayor wants to be reelected in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Six this budget would take. Effect what's what's our fiscal
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  Speaker 1: Year october. ONE i don't even know when it would
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  Speaker 1: take a, sure, YEP i think It's october, one But
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  Speaker 1: i'm not. Positive but this will continue well past the
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  Speaker 1: end of the Gain th. Administration should should somebody actually
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  Speaker 1: run against him and beat? Him so THAT i obviously
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  Speaker 1: take an. Issue, secondly As i'm looking at this three
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar three year, budget one of the bigger expenses
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  Speaker 1: in there is money that they are going to allocate
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars for what they call stabilizing problematic. Intersections
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  Speaker 1: AND i look at the list of those intersections as
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  Speaker 1: featured on THE wsyx six, website and among Them Dimmerist
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  Speaker 1: avenue In Sullivan, avenue which is actually dimmest road In Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: Avenue but you, know nobody gets anything like that right.
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  Speaker 1: ANYMORE i get upset with that all. Time if you
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  Speaker 1: are on if you're on a numbered, street And i'm
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  Speaker 1: passing this on, you you relatively new media people out.
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  Speaker 1: There maybe you're not From, columbus you're freshman. College. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: if it's numbered and it runs east and west In,
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  Speaker 1: Columbus ohioi's, avenue so it's Fifteenth. Avenue. Okay if it's
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  Speaker 1: numbered and it runs north and, south it is. Street
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  Speaker 1: did you know, That ZACH i had no idea. None
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing little stuff like that that people don't. Know
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  Speaker 1: they need a compass, Though, no no you. Don't but
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  Speaker 1: if you you don't, worry you're never reporting From east
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  Speaker 1: Fifteenth street In, columbia It's east Fifteenth. AVENUE i never
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  Speaker 1: even know of. That. Interesting, also you know SOMETHING i
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  Speaker 1: found that people don't notice if if the left side
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  Speaker 1: of the. Street all the odd numbers are on this,
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  Speaker 1: side then all the even numbers are on the other,
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  Speaker 1: side and all the streets in that community are going
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  Speaker 1: to be like. That so if the street is on you,
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  Speaker 1: know if it's an east or a north south, street
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  Speaker 1: the east side of the street is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the positive if you will numbers or the you, know
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  Speaker 1: the odd numbers will be on the west. Side it's
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  Speaker 1: just just JUST i thought everybody knew this kind of.
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  Speaker 1: STUFF i did not in my. Neighborhood that's the way it. Is,
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  Speaker 1: Well demmest And sullivan is on this list as it
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  Speaker 1: has BEEN i think every single year for like the
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  Speaker 1: last ten, years every single, year and yet there it is,
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  Speaker 1: Again gender And refugee always, There hall And norton always,
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  Speaker 1: there McGuffey And weber always, There Mount Vernon Champion i'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if that's been on there. Before And cleveland
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  Speaker 1: And Oakland. Park, Yeah cleveland and pretty much anything From
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  Speaker 1: Hudson north is a. Problem BUT i, think, again here we.
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  Speaker 1: Go this is just. Me whatever this eight million dollars
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  Speaker 1: worth of plan is to deal with these intersections that
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  Speaker 1: have been on this list, FOREVER i think should go
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  Speaker 1: before the. Public AND i say this BECAUSE i pointed this.
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  Speaker 1: OUT i think Last, thursday MAYBE i was talking about
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  Speaker 1: it over there might beloved west. Side Sullivan avenue a main.
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  Speaker 1: Thoroughfare it runs, up you, know parallel With west Broad.
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  Speaker 1: Street it's an east and west runs From Georgesville, road
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  Speaker 1: although there's an Old sullivan on the other side Of.
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  Speaker 1: Georgeville but it runs From Georgesville road Into franklinton culminates
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  Speaker 1: down At Dodge. Park it has my entire life been
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  Speaker 1: two lanes, eastbound two lanes. Westbound, well in recent, years
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  Speaker 1: the city Of columbus decided to make it one lane
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  Speaker 1: in each. Direction that's after the half billion dollars invested
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  Speaker 1: in the casino out. There they figured it was better
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  Speaker 1: than only have one lane of traffic eastbound and westbound On,
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan and most recently they have placed these concrete islands
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  Speaker 1: in the middle Of Sullivan. Avenue so let's say you
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  Speaker 1: your eastbound On sullivan Leaving, HILLTOP, usa headed Toward, franklinton
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  Speaker 1: and you want to turn left On, belvidere the street
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  Speaker 1: WHERE i grew. Up, well now that left turn, lane
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  Speaker 1: that center lane where normally you would turn from or
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  Speaker 1: from where you would. Turn now there's a concrete barrier,
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  Speaker 1: There so if you're going to turn left Onto belvidere
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  Speaker 1: from Eastbound Sullivan, avenue you now have to block the
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  Speaker 1: one lane of traffic that exists until the westbound traffic
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  Speaker 1: subsides enough for you to turn left on To. Belvidere that's.
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  Speaker 1: Stupid all you're doing is causing congestion and getting. People
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  Speaker 1: we need to do something about road. Range you're starting road,
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  Speaker 1: range you're creating. It you're already limiting people to one
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  Speaker 1: lane of, travel and why is it You, well what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to do with this was too slow traffic
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  Speaker 1: through the. Area oh, Good so now traffic isn't moving
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  Speaker 1: as fast as the guys are going by perusing the.
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  Speaker 1: Hookers so you got to slow down because there's one
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  Speaker 1: lane of. Traffic you gotta slow down because somebody's turning
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  Speaker 1: left and can't do it with a concrete. Barrier and
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  Speaker 1: you got to slow down because the ladies are out.
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  Speaker 1: Walking don't have your windows. Down, man somebody runs up
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  Speaker 1: to your car looking at a crime. Report right. Now
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  Speaker 1: somebody sold a candy bar at the corner and then
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  Speaker 1: rob the. Woman this is just. STUPID i think whatever
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  Speaker 1: plan is going to come into play needs to come
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  Speaker 1: before the people of the, city or at the very
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  Speaker 1: least the community where it's going to. Happen, now here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem with. That there's always a problem with. Stuff
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  Speaker 1: here's the problem with. That the way The city Of columbus,
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  Speaker 1: operates it would come before the community in the form
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  Speaker 1: of bringing. It some city staff member would come down
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  Speaker 1: with their pie charts and so, forth and they would
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  Speaker 1: present to The Area. Commission are you familiar with area, Commission? Zach?
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  Speaker 1: Now SHOULD i? DO i want to be toothless lions
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  Speaker 1: is what they. Are those Were they were created by
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  Speaker 1: The city Of columbus years ago when somebody somewhere ahead
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  Speaker 1: that might have Been Joe motill for ALL i, know
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  Speaker 1: somebody somewhere had the audacity to suggest we needed a
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  Speaker 1: larger city, council we needed better representation. Downtown and so
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  Speaker 1: instead of enlarging city council all those years, ago the
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  Speaker 1: city created these area, commissions sixteen area commissions in The
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  Speaker 1: city Of, columbus and people will come before The Area
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  Speaker 1: commission before going Before Columbus City council or The board
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  Speaker 1: Of Zoning appeals or whatever you want to you want
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  Speaker 1: to get a variant so you can park your car
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  Speaker 1: on the back, lawn on an unimproved surface or. Something
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  Speaker 1: you go to the area. Commission the area commission then
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  Speaker 1: gives a recommendation which the, city if they damn will,
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  Speaker 1: choose will completely ignore because they're gonna do what they
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  Speaker 1: want to. Do they are members of area. Commissions feel
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  Speaker 1: free to call me up and tell Me i'm, wrong
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  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i know. Better they are going to do what
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  Speaker 1: they want to, do and you're going to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: IT i know this as a former member of an area,
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  Speaker 1: commission as a former chairman of an area, commission who
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  Speaker 1: told them one way each, direction one lane each direction
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  Speaker 1: On Sullivan avenue is a bad, idea AND i did
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  Speaker 1: that over a decade, ago and now you see the
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  Speaker 1: result Of but city staff knows, best they know. Best, no,
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  Speaker 1: no look at the folle of, traffic look at what's
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  Speaker 1: going on On Sullivan. Avenue, no you didn't know. BEST
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  Speaker 1: i MEAN i only grew up. THERE i was just born.
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  Speaker 1: THERE i don't know. Anything what would you? Know and
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  Speaker 1: area commissions all over the city suffer that same. Plate
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  Speaker 1: it's and they can't do. Anything so if somebody is
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  Speaker 1: violating an, agreement you, know doing something in violation of
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  Speaker 1: a city. Ordinance the Area commission can't do. Anything homeowners
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  Speaker 1: association has more control over what happens than an area commission.
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  Speaker 1: Does but that's how it would be brought to the
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  Speaker 1: public is to an area commission, meeting and the commissioners
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  Speaker 1: and the four people that show up for the meeting
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  Speaker 1: will hear about the, plan and the commission will, say,
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  Speaker 1: no we don't like, this we're, voting we're voting against this,
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  Speaker 1: idea and the city will, say, okay thanks for your,
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  Speaker 1: time and then they'll go do it. Anyway but for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of disclosure, transparency as we said during The obama,
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  Speaker 1: ADMINISTRATION i think whatever they want to do at these
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  Speaker 1: intersections should be. Disclosed there should be public, perusal there
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  Speaker 1: should be a period for public, comment just so when
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  Speaker 1: they do it and it doesn't, work at least we
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  Speaker 1: can hold up something and, go, look here's what we told,
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  Speaker 1: you here's what you, did here's how it turned. Out
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  Speaker 1: not going to change, anything but at the very least
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  Speaker 1: it will make us feel. Better at LEAST i will
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars for for what that's my question three
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar budget And Columbus City. Schools who was it
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  Speaker 1: that totas at last? Hour was? It mark called up
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  Speaker 1: and Said Columbus city school spends about a billion And
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  Speaker 1: zach looked it, Up, john and they're spending over a
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars a Year Columbus City. Schools while there are
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  Speaker 1: some anecdotal success stories and wonderful things happening at some
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  Speaker 1: of the, schools largely because of the teaching staff and
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  Speaker 1: the principles that have kind of taken the bull by the,
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  Speaker 1: horns if you, will the district as a whole is
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  Speaker 1: sucking eggs. Man attendance is, terrible graduation is, terrible discipline.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible over a billion dollars a year for, That and
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  Speaker 1: then you want to argue with somebody about school choice.
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  Speaker 1: Vouchers sit, down shut, up