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Mike Plane
From:Travis Rothweiler
Sent:Wednesday, November 8, 2023 15:40
To:CM-Council
Subject:RE: Second Attempt - Safety and Accessibility
Council,
Good afternoon. I wanted you to know that Troy has sent Mr. Root a couple of emails. The last one was last Thursday.
He has not had a response yet.
Travis Rothweiler, ICMA- CM
City Manager
City of Twin Falls, Idaho
From: Travis Rothweiler <trothweiler@tfid.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 10:36 AM
To: Josh Baird <JBaird@tfid.org>; Erin Steel <esteel@tfid.org>; Troy Vitek <tvitek@tfid.org>; Lee Glaesemann
<Lglaesemann@tfid.org>; Mitch Humble <Mhumble@tfid.org>
Cc: CM-Council <Council2016@tfid.org>
Subject: RE: Second Attempt - Safety and Accessibility
All,
Good morning. I am forwarding another letter from Mr. Root about his ADA concerns in parts of our community. Please
see the attached. Can you assist answering some of questions he asks in his letter? Thanks!
Travis Rothweiler, ICMA- CM
City Manager
City of Twin Falls, Idaho
From: Ruth Pierce <rpierce@tfid.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2023 9:40 AM
To: Travis Rothweiler <trothweiler@tfid.org>
Subject: Fwd: Second Attempt - Safety and Accessibility
We can discuss next week.
Ruth Pierce
Mayor
Begin forwarded message:
From: Trevor <trevorroot@gmail.com>
Date: October 14, 2023 at 8:44:59 AM MDT
To: Ruth Pierce <rpierce@tfid.org>, Chris Reid <CReid@tfid.org>, Nikki Boyd <nboyd@tfid.org>, Craig
Hawkins <CHawkins@tfid.org>, Jason Brown <jbrown@tfid.org>, Spencer Cutler <scutler@tfid.org>,
Alexandra Caval <acaval@tfid.org>
Cc: voteconnies@proton.me, liyahbabayan@gmail.com, cdcardinet@gmail.com,
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cherievollmer@gmail.com, graysonalanrobert@gmail.com
Subject: Second Attempt - Safety and Accessibility
\[EXTERNAL SENDER\]
Dear Twin Falls City Council,
Attached you will find a follow-up letter regarding safety and accessibility in Twin Falls, and my first
letter is attached for reference. To be clear: I am seeking a change in action from Council - not from
staff. My concerns are of a funding, staffing, and prioritization nature - not an engineering nature.
This is an open letter and anyone cc'd may forward to whomever you wish. In the attached letter, I offer
a proposal to council, and I also open my offer to educate on accessibility or road safety to any potential
council members or news organizations. I will happily volunteer any amount of education, support, or
any other assistance to local disability groups and am actively seeking to learn from people with a wide
range of disabilities to continue my own education on how engineers can better support the needs of
the public.
Not mentioned in this letter is that I personally owned and created the first RioSalado20.org website
while living in Arizona to promote John McCain's Rio Salado 2.0 vision, which was later rebranded by
ASU to Rio Reimagined. I worked with ASU and John McCain's team regarding that vision, and
volunteered a considerable amount of time researching Arizona's ban on TIFs "Tax Increment Financing"
that everyone agreed was necessary to make John McCain's vision a reality. You may know TIF under the
rebranded name of "Urban Renewal Agency". In my research, I ended up finding out that Arizona
banned TIFs because they nearly always devolve into corruption or opaque finance schemes. I only
mention this because it's a potential reason why infrastructure improvements fail to receive funding
from city leadership. If anyone cc'd or bcc'd has information or can point me on the path to relevant
FOIA requests to confirm or disprove this possibility for Twin Falls, or if I can lend assistance to any news
agencies already researching this possibility, you can email me anonymously at trevorroot@pm.me
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