Minutes with Mayor Hofeld: Questions from Homewood Residents
Help us prioritize Patch submitted questions from Patch readers for Homewood's Village President Richard Hofeld.
We asked our H-F Patch Facebook friends for questions for Homewood Village President Richard Hofeld. Now, we need your help to prioritize them.
While we'd love to ask Hofeld every question, he's got things to do, including a village to run. All are invited to vote in our poll below to help us decide which questions are the most pressing.
Here's what we've got so far. Please offer additional suggestions in the comment section.
Which questions would you like Hofeld to answer?
gayleski
7:09 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
What are the chances of getting left turn arrows on Ridge Road at Riegel? The turn lanes are already in place-how hard is it to add an arrow? Sometimes you wait through three lights during peak times.
babyboomer
10:04 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Well, I guess that adding an electric village sign takes presidence, LOL!!
Raurie
7:22 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Is anything going In where the caribou coffee, Hollywood video, super loot ,tom's restaurant, laura's clothing store used to be??
JennieB
8:51 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
If the Homewood Hotel is going to be demolished, could any usable content be donated to the new PADS site?
Cfoam
12:18 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
All these questions are good and no one should be misled to pick only one. I suggest everyone email the "mayor" and ask him directly or go to a village meeting and ask him in person. Maybe a reporter will actually report the answers rather than try to let others determine if your question is valuable enough to be asked. As far as being too busy to answer questions it's part of his job isn't it? I'm sure he could get someone else to answer for him anyway as answers should be known by multiple officials right? that is unless the Village President is omnipotent....
Mr. Jack
7:39 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
President Hofeld is also available Saturday mornings at the village hall from 9:00 am until about noon. I've seen him in there many times, and have asked him questions from time to time. He seems to be open and makes himself available to the public. Stop by and talk to him.
Truth82
1:28 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Can the village of Homewood open the first " Homewood Coffee house" where the Caribou once was.... It would generate revenue and be able to hire people from the community.
Ryan Fitzpatrick
11:27 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Questions I'll add for consideration:
1) What are the chances of getting left turn arrows on Ridge Road at Riegel?
2) Can you give us a status update on the prime vacancies in town such as Caribou, Tom's, Bogart's, etc.?
3) Can you give us a status update on the Homewood Hotel?
margaret
12:18 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
I am concerned about the number of home break-ins i've been hearing about--what are the police doing about this?? It seems like the majority happen during morning/afternoon hours when people are away from work. I'm mostly concerned if we happen to be out of town--otherwise I have a large dog in the house that barks loudly if he hears anything
Ryan Fitzpatrick
12:30 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
I'll keep this question in mind, too. Thanks Margaret!
Charlie
8:47 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
Speeding on 183rd is out of control. Should be a safety priority and could be a revenue enhancer.
This a residential area!
BUTCH
9:01 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
That's a second
T'sMom
4:07 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Per Margaret's "concerned about the number of home break-ins i've been hearing about--what are the police doing about this?" So am I. We had a number of home break-ins on Hickory a few months ago, in fact one was right next door to me. After these break-ins, Homewood's police presence was increased in our area for a few weeks, luckily the person was caught who was doing these break-ins. Its a fact if police presence is consistent in neighborhoods it will deter crime. Homewood needs to step up, make their police presence known throughout the community to keep crime down, it's their job paid by the taxpayers.