THE LIONS ROAR REINCARNATED

Edited by Mark Ripplinger

Photos by Don Wood & Mark Ripplinger

February 4, 2008
 
Lions President Mark Miller

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (February 4th)

 

Fellow Lions, What a Game!  I think no matter who you were rooting for last night, that was one of the best Super Bowl games in a long time.  We have had some great speakers the last few weeks and we are lining up the next few weeks.  So watch the Roar for updated.  If you have any suggestions for upcoming speakers, don't be shy!  Send me an email at mark@aldpub.com and I will get you or open dates.

 

We Serve ……… Mark Miller

 

 

TODAY’S MEETING (February 4th)

 

John Schofield and a guest from “Elements Massage”, will speak to the club about their new business location.

 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

 

February 11 … TBD

February 18 … TBD

February 25 … TBD

 

BIRTHDAYS                             ANNIVERSARIES

 

None                                           None

                                                  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Board Meeting, 5:00 pm, Tuesday, February 12th at the Brown Bottle.

 

DID YOU KNOW

 

▪ The Pony Express only lasted 18 months, from April 1860 to October 1861.

 

▪ The last time a cigarette commercial appeared on TV was December 31, 1970.

 

▪ President George Washington owned foxhounds named DRUNKARD, TIPLER and TIPSY.

LAST MEETING (January 28th)

 

Frank Darrah, Cedar Falls City Councilperson and Jeff Olson, Cedar Falls Police Captain, provided the club with information related to the proposed “Landlord Accountability Ordinance”. Frank provided information related to the history of why the ordinance is being developed, how community oversight is being utilized and reiterated that the ordinance has not yet been enacted. There is currently a “trial period” of one year where ordinance violations will be tracked, and points assessed against properties in violation of the proposed ordinance language. At the end of one year, the results will be analyzed and various options would then be available for consideration. The City could adopt the ordinance is written, modify the language or point system or drop the entire ordinance altogether. Captain Olson provided a brief PowerPoint presentation that included statistics related to the first four weeks of the trial period. During these four weeks, there were 141 code enforcement violations logged by the code enforcement officers. Of these 141 violations, 47 were related to rental property.  Violations ranged from loud parties, failure to removed snow/ice from sidewalks, and other rental code issues. After notifying the owners/ tenants of those 47 violations, only two properties required that points be assessed against them. These points were only leveled against the property after failure to gain voluntary compliance as the City of Cedar Falls requested. Captain Olson indicated that the ordinance was put into place to encourage rental tenants and the property owners to be as responsible for the property as owner occupied property must be.

 

IT'S GREAT TO BE A LION!

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