Mayor Jackson
Today, I read about the Mayor's plan for sustainability in our fair city. He spoke well about a green city on a blue lake. What I did find interesting was how does he plan on doing this and how does he plan on sustaining our neighborhoods drowning in seas of controling, power hungry, discriminating and secretive community organizations such as CDC's, i.e. Tremont West Development Corp.
The end of the rope that ties the planners, the funders, the inspectors, the corrupt city officials and all of the other behind the scene players is tangled up somewhere in a web of what is called our local government.
In our community we have an organization that was created for the purpose of helping people and once upon a time it did just that - buy today it is under the thumb of a group of so called leaders that have labeled themselves with a superiority tag.
There is nothing so grand and fool hearted as placating oneself with such a degree of self importance that they must be revered.
The Tremont residential community is on the edge of a wipe out. This area was built on the backs of many poor, poverty stricken, hard working, minority and diverse people. Today, those people are feeling the crunch as the well-to-do developers, high-end bars/restaurant ownerss, and others with greater advantages move in and are handed the keys to the kingdom.
A TWDC By-Law Committee is currently attempting to draw votors out in favor of passing proposed changes to the current by-laws which have been in effect for 40 years. These new proposed regulations if passed will shift even more power away from this community organization's membership and into the hands of many with a self-serving agenda.
While some of the main changes revolve around the standing committee structures that will in essence discriminatly eliminate any resident membership participation, the present sitting committees members/chairs/co-chairs have no qualms in operating in a dictorial fashion.
The many conflicts of interest leaves little to be desired when resident participation is discouraged and even turned away. Some examples of these dogmatic practices are the Economic Development and Long Range Planning Committees. At the present time, we have a co-chair/ED/LRP, David Purpera that no longer lives in the community, two city paid employees that are not only board members but also chair/co-chair of committees. 1. Magistrate Lynn Murray, board member/TWDC treasurer and chair of TWDC's Finance committee (creating possible improprities) and board member Katherine Bulava, chair/ED/LRP, which said committee is highly influenced by TWDC Salary paid Staff member/developer/SII Development Director/Project Manager Sammy Catania.
Who will provide sustainability for the many long-time residents of this community that are being neglected, ignored and pushed out of this neighborhood. The elderly and poverty stricken citizens on fixed incomes are being dragged through the court system merely on the basis of peeling paint and loose gutters.
Where is their sustainability? Where is the social equality among the common people?
A green city on a blue lake? Mayor Jackson
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