Big Things Happening In The 4th District With David Maack

All right. He's finally here. That's good.

Alder, David Mack from the fourth district is here.

Good to have you here. Yeah, good to be here.

I didn't jump in the shower. I know.

No, I forgot the shapes. And I look all scruffy for a radio boy.

This happens when you get older. Yeah.

This always happens in thing. You know, you get older and older and older.

The mind starts dwindling.

No, it's being retired and not having a regular schedule,

which is throwing things off this week.

Well, you are here. And that's good.

We're going to talk about a few things in the news that you're working on.

Before we do that, how do you like all those barricades getting on the victory

avenue today? Oh, boy, it was very interesting.

I went down streets. I wasn't supposed to go down and

you waited here. It had to an obstacle course two weeks ago at the other

end of victory right over here on, I think it's Indiana or Kentucky.

They were not Kentucky in Indiana.

On Indiana, they had the barricade set up because they were digging over there.

They had us blocked in.

I had a parachute in to get into this place.

And you know, I need a hot air balloon to get out.

Boy, they blocked the streets off.

I mean, I'm supposed to get in and out of this joint.

Anyway, so it's a real mess.

It's a mess all over the city of Racine.

I don't know if a hot air balloon would be a good choice

because they're pretty big and they may tangle with that big

in 10 hours. Well, you got to figure it out.

They needed some way to get out of here.

And the whole city is either either got potholes or roads are closed.

One of the other now I did know bring in Wisconsin.

Don get over it.

Yeah, when my axle breaks, I'll drive it over to your house and say fix it.

Now I did notice on made it'll be sitting there a long time.

I'm not mechanically inclined.

If you haven't figured that one out now in Main Street,

I noticed from downtown on down to 16th street.

They started patching cold patching and that's good.

Get those major even on downtown.

There are some holes on that street.

When you're good at baboom, I mean,

you know, there's no excuse for not fixing.

There is an excuse still snow next week.

No, it's not snow.

It doesn't matter.

Fixing with a cold patch.

I remember when I worked at a different radio station

and I was talking to one of the people who responsibly says,

we cold patch it in the winter and we warm hot patch it when it gets warm again.

There's nothing wrong with putting something in those holes.

The cold patch, nothing wrong with that.

You should get Commissioner Rooney on here to talk about.

I got you on here.

You're the other for me.

Yeah, but Commissioner Rooney's the expert on cold patching and hot patching and this and that.

Well, they didn't cold patch it.

I noticed on Main Street now.

They had to fix it.

I mean, you would bum bum bum that spring street.

I know that's, I know it's a county problem.

We'll get Melissa Comprilion in here to talk about that.

I'll get her.

We're in a Kelly.

Oh, yeah, Kelly in here.

We'll talk about that.

That spring street, you know, this stretch I'm talking about, it's horrible.

Forget you got to go on the barrels.

I understand that they do in construction.

But the road itself is nothing bum bum bum bum bum bum.

And the railroad tracks.

Now, I know they're not responsible for the railroad tracks,

but they got to get it done.

They got to get somebody to fix this stuff.

Maybe you can get Angelina Cruz in here and, uh, oh,

eight.

I was playing in the state for the railroad tracks.

Oh, no, it's not like the railroads responsible for the railroad tracks.

It's just awful.

The roads are awful.

And okay, that's enough.

I got my screaming at you.

Let's talk about the speed homes.

Are you talking about on the, um,

Oh, right.

Mr.

Bullock, yeah.

Yeah, it's something that was started

under former alderman Amanda Paff,

Pafferath, the city had say that three times faster.

Yeah.

The city had, um,

purchased some temporary speed bumps to test them out around various, uh,

parts of the city.

And they put when I'm Michigan,

Boulevard and speed humps are bumps.

Humps.

Humps.

Okay.

Yeah.

There's a difference between humps and bumps.

And quite frankly, commissioner Rooney gave us a big lengthy explanation,

but these are called humps, not bumps.

Now, you know, with his real good, uh,

big speed bumps that are annoying,

with the old Walgreens was, I'm a moral drive and say,

speed bumps are something that they use in

parking lots.

Okay.

He's wrong because there's two speed bumps on either side of the railroad tracks

on state street, right?

With the old Walgreens to us too.

And they've been there for a couple of years and they're not humps.

They are bumps.

Hmm.

They are bumps.

I think they said that you know what I'm talking about?

Invite commissioner Rooney and you can talk to,

no, I don't.

I didn't, uh, okay.

You know, I didn't realize a speed humps,

bumps or whatever was in something that is utilized.

These are bumps.

I, the city, at least that's what our impression was

until we passed an ordinance, um, a year and a half ago.

Or so.

But anyway, back to Michigan, Bolivari.

We got the mayor in tomorrow.

We'll hit him.

Yeah, hit the mayor with that.

We got him in tomorrow.

Give him an FYI.

Be prepared to talk about the speed bump on state street

by the railroad tracks.

Well, you know what it is?

It's, it's annoying.

You hit it and if you hit it fast, it bump.

I mean, you're not supposed to hit a speed hump

fast.

Yeah, but it's not, you can't see them.

They're not yellowed out.

Sometimes they yellow though.

So you get, they're not.

Now I know they're there because I've been, I try to,

you know, about the speed hump on Michigan Bolivari.

The humps on the, it's about your humps.

So anyway, the residents have an issue on Michigan Bolivari.

It's a nice, long stretch on the, on the lake front.

People race up and down it and I've been shown video.

I've been shown pictures.

Of cars that have been in accidents and last summer,

I was sitting out and I heard, boom, you know, and I,

I'm what a couple blocks away from it.

And I hear all the sirens.

So I run down and there a card come super fast

around the curve by the zoo there.

And I think it hit a polar tree and I flipped over.

And that's something that we're trying to alleviate.

One step.

So I had to get the bus route routed off of Michigan Bolivard found out

that no one was utilizing the bus on Michigan Bolivard.

And that once that was taken care of,

we were able to move forward getting speed humps.

So there's going to be resurfacing of the road in the fall more barrels more

yes, yes, but we saved it till the fall because of some traffic.

Yeah, and also because of 4th of July parade.

Utilize this Michigan Bolivard.

So that's it.

Yeah, staging area.

Oh, okay.

So anyway, you ever see that pre-parade that goes by?

Yeah.

That's where a lot of the, uh,

oldies like those and stuff are our stage.

So anyway,

there'll be seven speed humps.

They'll be part of the project when they do the road resurfacing.

Are they going to be at the asphalt speed humps?

Are those rubber ones there?

I don't believe they're going to be rubber.

They're, they're part of the whatever they're using to resurface the road with.

That's what the speed hump will be.

People are going to have to slow down.

You can't go speeding over that.

You will bottom out if you try to take them at a high rate of speed.

Good.

Yeah.

And we're going to talk more about that with main street as well.

It's become the Great Lakes Dragway as a result.

As it can.

I can't put a speed hump there because of it being a bus route.

Oh, now with that,

the police use that as a route to get to emergencies with fire trucks.

Oh, yeah.

Want them bumping around?

Main route.

Older David Mack is here from the fourth district.

I must say congressional district.

From the fourth automatic district.

Give me a promotion.

It was seen.

Let's talk about Lakeview Park.

This is one of your pet projects here.

Yeah, I'm excited about that.

I saw a picture of you in your grandson

in front of the construction the other day.

Right across from the zoo.

Yep.

We were able to get money put in last year's budget,

Park's budget,

to redo the playground equipment.

The playground equipment that had been there

was old and antiquated.

There was this shovel thing that my grandson was trying to use

the last time we were there.

And it seemed to be broken.

Slides where you know,

it was just a simple metal slide

and a swing set.

So we wanted my vision when I ran two years ago

was to build an inclusive

dream tight playground like they have in Kenosha

and to maybe raise money to do that.

And I was surprised when the mayor put money in the budget

to get it going and then our phase two

will be setting up some sort of capital campaign

to build it out even bigger.

But even with the money that is in the budget this year,

it will be a huge improvement over what we had there.

And it will be much bigger.

And I think it will be a hit with the kids

and hopefully with the parents there.

And we've tried to incorporate some music and stem to it.

So there'll be a few pieces that will incorporate that.

There's going to be a few musical instruments that kids

sing those things.

Yeah, kids and adults.

My wife's a music teacher will be able to play along the way.

So it's looking good.

They're moving rather quickly on it.

Last week, they broke ground started excavating,

smoothing things out.

And they actually have a footing.

And you can see how much bigger the footprint is on phase one

from the old, the old playground.

So you tearing down this playground to build a new one.

It's much like trump tearing down the ball.

The part of the white has to build a ballroom.

Yeah, the historic, the historic way to play ground.

I'm sure I am waiting for the cordon junction right now.

There's a few people I know that would try to file one.

Well, when you said you were trying to get funds,

that's the first thing I thought about.

You know, I was on this playground in Florida once when I was visiting

and had these whisper tubes.

I don't know if you ever saw them before.

They put them in a distance and you face it and you whisper into it like that.

And the other person can hear you.

Can you do that in like the Hall of Congress or something?

I don't know.

I just sat on this spot and go over there.

But I found it really interesting that it works.

They headed on the playgrounds down there.

That was good.

All right, let's talk about traffic enforcement.

I noticed the cops on Spring Street.

Yeah, we're pulling people over.

They need to do something about Main Street, though.

That is that is the great lace dragway of the city.

I thought the chief about that.

Have you ever heard the chief on?

No.

Oh, does he want to come on?

I don't know.

You should ask him.

Okay.

He'd be very interesting.

I would think, but we can't you can't miss him.

I mean, the speed limit's 30 miles an hour.

It's 25 downtown.

Third, they have to be going because I see them pass in cars

at a going 30 and there must be 40, 45 miles an hour.

They're going and then you've got the cars that have those

muffler things on it that sound.

I mean, this is going on, especially on the weekends,

all night long.

Yeah.

And it's just a matter of time before they hit somebody.

Just imagine it's going to happen.

I was on Douglas Avenue the other day.

And I was in Lahtan Lane.

The all of a sudden, there's a sign that's saying

Lahtan Lane closed because they were doing some sort of

construction.

Everyone had to go over to the right hand lane.

Look at my rear view mirror.

There's a car behind me in the right hand lane

that you can tell is coming up at a high rate of speed.

I speed up a little bit so I can get in front of the car.

And it's a young woman driver and she

accelerates even more.

So I'm speeding a little bit because I'm trying to get

into the lane.

And I eventually just had to back off, slow it down

because she wasn't going to let me merge.

Even though it started out that I was a head of her

in the left hand lane.

But no, she had to get going through that thing

at a high, high rate of speed.

When I take 16th Street in in the morning,

there's always somebody who I can't see their headlights

are so close to me.

They're running late for work.

Yeah.

And I'm not running late for work.

I'm not in time.

Right.

So they want to push me along.

They can't cut in the right hand lane

because they're a cars park there on 16th

when they find it open.

Boom!

The Kiko and they are going.

I'm not exaggerating.

40, 45 miles an hour.

In your city they're saying,

where's the cop?

And boy,

put it justice.

Would it be greater if there was a cop sitting,

you know, two blocks up and nail them?

It's also at 5.15 in the morning, 5.10 in the morning.

But these are terrible drivers.

Yeah, I talked to the chief.

There's going to be enhanced traffic enforcement

on some of the hot spots.

So Ohio Street I heard was another area

that recently got targeted.

Hopefully Main Street is,

and I'll talk to the chief on that one

because a large part of my district

is Main Street.

And then we had, as a council,

the Douglas Avenue Business Improvement District

had earmarked some money towards enhanced speed enforcement

on Douglas Avenue throughout the summer.

And but there's going to be a regular

traffic enforcement also on Douglas Avenue

in addition to the extra dollars.

And so I've been told that's going to happen.

So police officer out there on Sunday afternoon, I think,

and getting quite a few cars.

Good.

Get them.

Now, real quickly, because we only have

another show left here.

In a minute, tell me about you,

William Rubio's story.

Then I've got one to share with you.

Oh, yeah.

You know, it's kind of funny,

because half the time we don't talk

about city stuff when I'm on here.

But yeah, the, I had the kids

a couple of weeks ago.

Kiandrey called said, hey, can you pick them up?

And I'll Creek.

I got to work in Oak Creek on Friday.

And I'm pulling them out of school for the day.

And I said, yeah, we're going to take,

I'm going to take them to Quick Trip.

The new mascots there.

I think he's also the new CEO.

So we went there.

And we're, we're driving to, from Oak Creek to

to Quick Trip.

And I look in the rear view mirror and the winter won't be

speeding by you at 50 miles an hour.

It's behind me.

I tell the boys, look, the winter won't be

else behind.

All right, I didn't even tell them that.

I said, look behind us.

And they see the winter will be on.

They get all excited.

And all of a sudden, it comes flying past us.

And the kids are like,

racing cramp or racet.

No, no, no, but we got a long side of it.

It was doing 80 miles an hour.

And snapped a couple pictures.

And we were on our way to Quick Trip to meet the new CEO,

Slash, mascot.

And we're there in Tanner's like,

cramp book.

Can we go see the Weinerbone Bill next?

And I was actually, I had a haircut scheduled.

And I, I said, you know what?

Yeah, we can.

So we went there and we had a whole bunch of running to do.

But the next day, I look on Facebook.

And the Weinerbone Bill was in Racine.

This was in Kenosha.

So two days in a row, I saw the Weinerbone Weinerbone Bill.

Two days in a row, I get the Weinerbone Bill whistle, which is a score.

To pick the Kansas, the Weinerbone Bill is there for the NASCAR race.

So high school kids saw it.

And they took pictures in front of it.

And they said to the woman who was the brand person for

Oscar Meyer and said,

boy, I'd like to have this at our prom.

Any chance we can drive it, get a road in for

another grand entrance to our prom?

She said, sure.

She said, let me just check.

She called up the, the owners of the Weinerbone Bill.

They said, yeah, sure.

Oh, wow.

And they used it to go to their prom.

Just like that, just asked.

Oh, wow.

Isn't that great?

Could you use it to get married in, right?

The Weinerbone Bill.

David Mac, our fourth district older, thanks for coming in.

Hey, thank you.

I appreciate it.

Sorry, I'm late.

Ah, don't worry about it.