April 27, 2012Dear Sir,Jinx, for Mayor.Jinx is well known to every business, staff and resident of the city. He is persistent and consistent in his daily routine. He knows what he wants and how to get it. Sometimes with his fearless look and demanding tone, he gets more than he demands. He’s not afraid to confront people and can handle criticism, by totally ignoring it. Now that the cruise ships are back he will make more money than Mr Gosling.What about a sitting member or chairman who sits in his wheelchair with his portable radio perched on top of the trash bin in front of the Ferry Terminal. I am not sure if he is greeting ferry passengers or passers-by. Frankly, I don’t think he has concern for either one. Could he be a Councillor, Common Councillor or an Alderman? Whatever he could be, it is obvious that he cannot be unseated and therefore could be the next Mayor. The round bench that was around the tree at the terminal was removed because vagrants/city residents were occupying it daily and preventing our visitors from sitting on it. Now, the bench is back and so are the vagrants/city residents. I am calling them vagrants/city residents because they eat, drink, sleep and spend more time than any of us in the city, Now, as city residents, they are able to vote. Yes, city residents can now vote. Can’t they Mr Gosling?There are also the city residents who daily occupy the benches at the little park on the waterfront between Cooper’s and the car park. The water fountain, benches and tiles in this park need to be power washed regularly. The fountain is black and green with moss and looks very untidy. In an e-mail to Mr Benevides, I offered to power wash the area myself but was told that it would be done. It wasn’t. The cruise ship is docked next to this eye sore.The Corporation is considering extending this little park and doing away with the adjoining parking lot. Take away the car park revenue that you just have to sweep and put in a park that cost money to keep? You can also put some pop tents on the new park area and the vagrants/city residents can move between there and Albouy’s Point, and closer to the ships and the black and green fountain of youth. After all, the people who use it look the same everyday.I have seen Mayors, Aldermen, Councillors and Common Councillors come and go in Hamilton and the same vagrants/city residents are still there doing the same things in the places and the way they want to do them. When is the City of Hamilton going to get these people out of the faces of the people who work in the city who have to smell their urine and their faeces every morning, watch them urinate next to a tree or against a building. They make trash wherever they are. They beg from and harass our visitors until they get the money and sleep in door ways on benches and in the parks. They loiter in public places where others have to go around them or be put out of a place to sit without having to put up with foul odours. Now the Corporation is looking to give them a bigger park on Front Street and give them an upgrade at The Queen Elizabeth II Park.We were told last year that the Corporation was going to introduce City Rangers. They must be in disguise because we don’t see them. Besides, the vagrants are policing themselves and know what they can get away with. I am told that this problem is ongoing. Why? I will again wait to see who wins the running of the city.GERALD L BEANPaget