Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:to be fair. Cheh is also getting heat on the Cleveland Park listserve for the same issue. Shutting down a thread that's critical of a local politician is...a more than a little Trumpy. If you don't like the thread, Don't open it.
Having now read the whopping 5 posts on the Cleveland Park listserv, I think I have figured out the problem. The person quoted above lives in an alternative universe, because there is literally not one word critical of Cheh in any of the posts on the topic.
An alarm has been going off at the Hearst Park pool equipment area since late morning. Blue Skye Construction’s foreman isn’t answering texts/calls, 311 doesn’t pick up, and three patrol cars full of MPD can’t figure out how to stop it. According to the neighbor across the street, one lovely young officer said, "hopefully the battery will run out soon—this is awful”.
CM Cheh claimed in a message on August 10 that she was "knocking heads" to get this project finished. Sadly, one month later, this is where we find ourselves. The pool has not been finished. The tennis courts have no surface. The soccer field is bare dirt. And for all we know, the vaunted sump pump that is taking the underground stream and rerouting it to the stormwater system because the City failed to do proper hydrology work in advance has failed. 25 months in, and we still have an ugly unusable mess, and to add insult to injury, the prospect of these alarms going off with no way to stop them.
CM Cheh, we ask that you get results - something you have failed to do after working hard to get the money for this project and pushing it through. No matter what you may say now, there are many citizens who know the role you played, and as you remain the representative for this area, you are still accountable for getting the District to answer questions and perform. You should be going to fellow members of the Council who chair the oversight committees for DPR and DGS and insisting they get answers and performance. I expect that your credibility with respect to the school construction projects now being debated will be adversely affected by the abysmal Hearst project.
District citizens who are concerned about the dereliction on this project using taxpayer dollars may wish to register concern and a demand to get it finished not only with CM Cheh but also with CM Robert White who chairs the Committee on Government Operations, rwhite@..., and CM Trayon White who chairs the Committee on Recreation, twhite@.... Perhaps if they get sufficient contacts, they will pay attention.