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Incompetence and stumbling at Rocklin City Hall

Our elected officials and city staff have moved forward with unwanted traffic circle project. They have failed to ask us do we want them. No we don’t. They are not in the interest of the people who live in Rocklin. It is interesting to watch the self centered council and the dullards in the cities planning move forward with another unwanted project. Our simple minded mayor and the council have failed to ask what we want. These are the same people who bought a golf course, that isn’t a golf course. They built an adventure park that cost twice what theyoriginally promised and is no where near being self funded. There are law suits on its operation and costs yet to be resolved. How was building the adventure park in the interest of our citizens? It wasn’t. What expertise does the city have in operating an adventure park? None. Do the citizens of Rocklin elect the dumbest people on the ballot? Yes. 

On the upcoming agenda is some land acquisition to add a Traffic Circle at Rocklin Road and Pacific. This is another stupid addition to the moronic traffic circles on Rocklin Road. Everyone involved in this decision should be fired, including the entire city council. Traffic circle do not work. Traffic circle are not safe and traffic circles are a waste of tax payers funds. The city has used the argument that it isn’t local money. This is just another specious fraud. All money used by governments is tax payer funds. There is no public benefit in adding traffic circles. The City of Sacramento has had to add stop signs in one direction on most of their traffic circles, because they do not work and are unsafe. This is almost as stupid as the cities rock climing adventure park which was promised to pay for itself 3 years ago and still isn’t even close. It is amazing to watch people with low IQs make stupid decisions after receiving bad advice. 

Rocklin continues to move in the wrong direction. Wasting more money on the adventure park because it is still not self supporting. After promising that the park would be a profit center, our city council found out it would not and will be writing more checks to cover the difference. What could we have improved for the residence of Rocklin with $11 million. This after buying the broken down golf course for $5 million, when it was for sale for $3.2 million a couple years earlier. Great negotiating. The City has no expertise in running a commercial enterprise and has lawsuits open with the original vendor.

Now they are screwing up the traffic patterns in the city by allowing development that overloads our cities streets without the necessary improvements. Our 3rd tier city staff has set us up to fail through the poor performance and lack of fore sight. The staff has blamed the council for policies that the city council adopted at the request of the staff. The lack of skill and experience has created a situation, where they are now creating a community committee to look at traffic. This is another attempt by staff to control the outcome of this silly exercise. It is transparent and will deliver no real solutions except those planned by staff. They will use the committee to justify community support for changes pushed by staff members. If the city council wanted to create a community outreach, they could hire actual experts (Contractors like Psomas) to manage the project and support the community committee. 

Instead, we will end up with friends of the council on a committee managed by city staff.  Another formula for failure.  

Our city is worse because our city adds developments without the mitigation needed to eliminate the impact of developments onthe people who live in Rocklin. The simple fact is that every development should improve our traffic situation with improvements that mitigate the added traffic. This has not been done in any meaningful way. They have allowed new developments to negatively impact our quality of life. The stupid traffic circles are just one example of this buffonery.