I was wondering.................... If someone out there could explain to me exactly how this all works.?

Commercial property....the grass is high... city hammers in a sign... mow in 10 days or else were gonna mow it for you and send you the bill.

56 days later and it still isn't mowed. ?...?...?

So I'm wondering................?
Why does one person get a sign , another get a door hanger, and another get a ticket with no sign or door hanger? And why is there no follow up on these commercial buildings?

We all wonder, in hopes that its a mistake but its favoritism. Trust me, residents get tickets, absentee owners get notice after notice after notice, chance after chance and the city hopes the resident will drive by, see a sign and think well its getting handled, when in fact, nothing will until we make our own signs and picket in front of city hall.

Well, Innocent Bystander it looks like this site will soon die. The City of Haltom City, as expected, simply ignored the postings, comments and requests from the very people they solicited to participate. Rest assured the staff of the code office have read these posts everyday, so too have the public works office. The reason you see few official responses is that by responding they must take some responsibility. Responsibility leads to accountability,accountability leads to ctiticizsm, critisism leads to poor reviews, poor reviews lead to poor paychecks, or worse. The best way to diffuse the ire of citizens is to simply ignore them. That is what you now have. How is it that across the board the managers of the departments have failed to respond? Simply put, the orders come from on high. You would think that some council member would step up to the plate and demand action. You would think wrong. Why bother?

Your cry for revolution and accountability will fall on deaf ears. You have no platform from which you can be heard. This site has a dismal number of readers. The city makes no effort to advertize it. Remember those many posts from the residents of the Rio Vista Apartments? They are now quitely tucked in the archives, never to confront the city again. Unfortuately, as so often happens, legitimately concerned citizens became frustrated, aggravated and and in the end give up. For those trained in these matters it is child's play. The masses are easily controlled.

While you are to be commeneded for your continueing efforts, in the end there is no accountability in Haltom City Hall. We see the favoritism, neglect and worse, yet it only grows more with each passing paycheck. The attitude is, “ it worked well last payperiod, I guess I'll do it this payperiod too”.
The goal here, like in prison, is simply to keep a low profile and get through the next week. There will be daylight someday.

Trying get anything done here is like eating soup with a fork.Lots of effort little progress.

Good luck to you.

The Insider

Thank you IB,
I was wondering........... Is this anything like the "Operation Crooked Code" in Chicago? 2008 and 09

" An issue becomes archived when it is closed and is uncontested for 7 days."
Dont let them die.........................if they're not fixed.

Wonderwoman