Nice work, Perry. This is surely imperfect, but it's the right way to approach the problem. It offers analysis, ideas and solutions. 100% support what you are doing/saying.
Now I gotta work on the analysis for how to handle housing for non-essential non-profits and for-profits. The key question--WHO PAYS? The secondary question, how can the City be a catalyst rather than just a wallet.
Who pays? Not the public! The only "non-essential non-profits" I know are The WR Land Trust & The Nature Conservancy, both of which depend on the good will of the wealthy (and the tax write offs provided). That said, seems a "non-essential" should provide its own housing, like they do already, no?
You have spent the time to think about the pros and cons of a lot of options, using information and metrics.
Now a cross section of the community needs to go through a similar process—but using deliberation to arrive at actionable recommendations to create… political legitimacy. This takes time so all voices are heard and so the community can follow the process.
The only way I know how this is being done is Civic Assemblies, which I have written about in KS.
How about reducing the size of our City Government .. recent years both the Budget and the number of employees has ballooned out of control ... and I can honestly say that we haven't seen an better governing as our City spends more and more money and hires more and more people
...while bloating homeowners' property taxes and diluting the voting power of resident homeowners, thus doubling the impacts on local homeowner residents.
Yep, it is too long. But the thought process is very clear and comprehensive and compelling. I wish there was some way to DEMAND the Neil and BCHA respond in a similar written analysis that supports their current direction with similar analysis - and with a rebuttle of your points.
There is a way. Form a group to fund a litigation targeted toward staying these actions by this CC, until the election in November, which will allow the residents to vote either in support of this CC or removal of the incumbents and their policies. Ten folks to volunteer to help fund this should handle it.
Litigation requires either a pro bono lawyer or about $100k in funding. I wasted $20k of my own money with a Boise firm to stop Bluebird. They took me for a ride. It is very difficult to get a local lawyer to take on the City. Other than Lawson/Laski, they seem to be rather "low T."
Simple way is to form a Not-For-Profit focused on Comprehensive Planning for the Blaine Community (and its Wildlife), thus making contributions deductible. I suggest Givens, Pursley of Boise.
This is a lot to unpack! I keep going back to the basics. Ketchum is a town, Sun Valley is the resort. We each have different roles. Sun Valley has done a good job at keeping up with the upgrades needed that continue to make it a "World Class Resort".
Ketchum is the charming small town adjacent to the World Class Resort. Ketchum's role is to take care of the needs that keep it authentic and true to its roots. We have limited resources. As Perry has suggested, we need to take care of our house first. It is a greater loss to the area as a whole if Ketchum gets distracted in solving everyone else's problems, and we lose the charming town, the gem, that both residents and visitors find so appealing.
Please contact me! These are good numbers, good ideas, and need to factor into the Public Knowledge and Public Comment for upcoming Comp Plan and Re-zone Mtg TOMORROW 6/16 @ 4pm
Hi Perry - great framework for addressing mountain town housing crises. We could use to better address Jackson's.
Presumably the subsidy would be available to all 250 essential workers, based on some needs test, so the cost would likely be higher than you're projecting?
Along with good candidates to run and get elected, we need to have the right form of government to bring a professional approach to decision making. With the Council-Manager Form of Government the City Manager is responsible for providing the elected officials with "facts and technical and professional advise about policy options; and collaborate with them in setting goals for the community." -ICMA Code of Ethics Tenet 5
Given the present electoral system used by Ketchum, that's not easy; which is why we need candidates representing precincts, rather than council cnadidates "at large" with two votes per voter.
Were such to occur, presumably the "riff-raff" (not my term) would be mainly The Resort's employees, thus alleviating the employee housing needs of The Resort and, likewise, the City of Sun Valley.
Nice work, Perry. This is surely imperfect, but it's the right way to approach the problem. It offers analysis, ideas and solutions. 100% support what you are doing/saying.
Now I gotta work on the analysis for how to handle housing for non-essential non-profits and for-profits. The key question--WHO PAYS? The secondary question, how can the City be a catalyst rather than just a wallet.
Who pays? Not the public! The only "non-essential non-profits" I know are The WR Land Trust & The Nature Conservancy, both of which depend on the good will of the wealthy (and the tax write offs provided). That said, seems a "non-essential" should provide its own housing, like they do already, no?
You have spent the time to think about the pros and cons of a lot of options, using information and metrics.
Now a cross section of the community needs to go through a similar process—but using deliberation to arrive at actionable recommendations to create… political legitimacy. This takes time so all voices are heard and so the community can follow the process.
The only way I know how this is being done is Civic Assemblies, which I have written about in KS.
How about reducing the size of our City Government .. recent years both the Budget and the number of employees has ballooned out of control ... and I can honestly say that we haven't seen an better governing as our City spends more and more money and hires more and more people
...while bloating homeowners' property taxes and diluting the voting power of resident homeowners, thus doubling the impacts on local homeowner residents.
Yep, it is too long. But the thought process is very clear and comprehensive and compelling. I wish there was some way to DEMAND the Neil and BCHA respond in a similar written analysis that supports their current direction with similar analysis - and with a rebuttle of your points.
There is a way. Form a group to fund a litigation targeted toward staying these actions by this CC, until the election in November, which will allow the residents to vote either in support of this CC or removal of the incumbents and their policies. Ten folks to volunteer to help fund this should handle it.
Litigation requires either a pro bono lawyer or about $100k in funding. I wasted $20k of my own money with a Boise firm to stop Bluebird. They took me for a ride. It is very difficult to get a local lawyer to take on the City. Other than Lawson/Laski, they seem to be rather "low T."
Let's get eight other people to commit $10k each and hire LL!
Simple way is to form a Not-For-Profit focused on Comprehensive Planning for the Blaine Community (and its Wildlife), thus making contributions deductible. I suggest Givens, Pursley of Boise.
That's an interesting approach. Anyone care save Ketchum from this CC and contribute $10K?
This is a lot to unpack! I keep going back to the basics. Ketchum is a town, Sun Valley is the resort. We each have different roles. Sun Valley has done a good job at keeping up with the upgrades needed that continue to make it a "World Class Resort".
Ketchum is the charming small town adjacent to the World Class Resort. Ketchum's role is to take care of the needs that keep it authentic and true to its roots. We have limited resources. As Perry has suggested, we need to take care of our house first. It is a greater loss to the area as a whole if Ketchum gets distracted in solving everyone else's problems, and we lose the charming town, the gem, that both residents and visitors find so appealing.
Please contact me! These are good numbers, good ideas, and need to factor into the Public Knowledge and Public Comment for upcoming Comp Plan and Re-zone Mtg TOMORROW 6/16 @ 4pm
Hi Perry - great framework for addressing mountain town housing crises. We could use to better address Jackson's.
Presumably the subsidy would be available to all 250 essential workers, based on some needs test, so the cost would likely be higher than you're projecting?
An excellent post. Exactly how we should be approaching the problem but again hinges on getting the right people elected to change the trajectory.
Along with good candidates to run and get elected, we need to have the right form of government to bring a professional approach to decision making. With the Council-Manager Form of Government the City Manager is responsible for providing the elected officials with "facts and technical and professional advise about policy options; and collaborate with them in setting goals for the community." -ICMA Code of Ethics Tenet 5
Given the present electoral system used by Ketchum, that's not easy; which is why we need candidates representing precincts, rather than council cnadidates "at large" with two votes per voter.
To be brief; Ketchum would pay elite workers to live in Hailey and Bellevue and leave the riff-raff to fend for themselves?
What? How does that work?
Were such to occur, presumably the "riff-raff" (not my term) would be mainly The Resort's employees, thus alleviating the employee housing needs of The Resort and, likewise, the City of Sun Valley.