From the Mailbag

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Catching up on a few items from the mailbag --

BLOG COMMENTS

Some readers have said they cannot see their COMMENTS posted on PLAINFIELD TODAY. To view a COMMENTS, you must be on the ARTICLE PAGE, not the MAIN PAGE. How to tell where you are? If you scroll down and see more than one story, you are on the MAIN page. To see comments, scroll to the bottom of the story you want and click on the TIME POSTED link right after my name. This will open the story BY ITSELF and you will see the comments at the bottom in the order received.


ONLINE BANs BIDDING

A reader wrote asking whether the ONLINE AUCTION of Bond Anticipatory Notes (BANs) was a good thing or a bad thing, whether something 'unbecoming' was done and whether the bidding should have been brought before the public. (See the original post, and the followup.)

PT thinks the online bidding is a good thing, because it broadens the pool of bidders for our debt and more competition means the City can potentially get a better deal on the interest rate it must pay.

As to the other questions, PT thinks there WAS something unbecoming in the way this 'rollover' was done -- basically behind the Council and the public's back -- by former City Administrator Carlton McGee and, yes, it should have come before the Council and the public.

As a bonus, the City has been left with the necessity of rolling these BANs over again before March 20, 2007.


PLAINFIELD RECREATION CALENDAR

The Fall Recreation Division calendar came in the mail in the past couple of days. If you didn't get yours, you can pick one up at City Hall or the Rec Division in the Annex. Program information, registration deadlines, and other details of interest. Threw? Yes, 'threw.'


NAACP LEADERSHIP 500 SUMMIT

A reader active in the NAACP has forwarded a link to online information about the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, being held in Destin, FL, from December 7 - 10, 2006. For more information, check out the website.

-- Dan Damon

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