I’m sure there are many of you what would like to provide some resolutions to various officials and entities, so let’s see how creative you can be with suggestions.
New Year’s Resolutions We’d Like To See
by turfgrrl
January 2nd, 2008 · 16 Comments
Tags: current affairs
16 Responses so far ↓ “New Year’s Resolutions We’d Like To See”
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Bruce Morris: To finally get that bachelor’s degree but where to find the time? And how do I pick a major?
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LOL Bruce Morris total salary is six figure on a high school diploma for a director job that has a MASTERS degree or higher requirement. The man brings home a pay check larger than most teachers and some administrators with DOCTORATE degrees.
Dr. Corda, Trips to a Casino, Disney and museum independent and sign and drive CEU scam are not college classes and not only that your loop hole scam of letting facilitators give out a college degree for few hours to fill out the paperwork for 300 hours is STEALING the money away from taxpayers. Stop playing the system at the expense of HIGHLY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS AND TEACHERS.
Mr. Mellion, Your New Years resolution should be to stop the scandals so we can RAISE the teacher salary schedule to attract excellence.
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Chris Handrinos: Take a course in preservation and reuse of historic buildings.
Mayor Moccia: Move out of the Norwalk Inn.
Nick Kydes: Not share redevelopment plans with my brother; it wouldn’t be ethical.
Hal Alvord: Rethink career path.
Sal Corda: Have a strategy session with teachers and parents to understand the issues.
Sue Gunn: Eliminate lawsuits as a way to deflect attention from my abysmal job performance. Open the doors to the PUBLIC museum.
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My new years resolution is to become the chief investigator of harassment and discrimination in a urban city after high school.
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My resolution is test the building air quality at the childrens museaum.
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Test administrators for personality disorders.
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I’d like the city to make resolution, or several in fact:
1. Take care of the infrastructure, eleminate the flooding problems
2. Put more police on the streets
3.make sal Corda and friends accountable for the low test scores of our kids
4.Get the damn guns off the streets and remove the gangs and their colors from our schools
5.incorporate low income housing into the plans so we can get some of the homeless off the streets
6. Implement work training programs so the homeless can become productive and independent.
7.Continue with the ideas of some to build a teen center for Norwalk Youth.
8.Give the fireman a decent contract that they can actually live with and not some half baked excuse.
9. Pull in the reigns on overspending by the BOE and make sure our tax dollars actually go to our kids.
10. Work to get more tax dollars from Hartford and apply for proper grants to offset much needed programs. -
Do background checks to see if mayoral candidates have ever had criminal complaints filed against them by their spouse at the time…
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Follow Paul Newman’s philosophy to bring small town back home for Norwalk. His restaurant is now open, and they have a great farmers market.
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This month in The McKinsey Quarterly, there was an interesting article on “Building a competitive finance function.” It had some proposals for an effective CFO:
- Orchestrate relationship between board & executive management. Set effective rhythm to planning & review processes
- Expose areas of underperformance
- Pulling together cross functional teams
- Establishing performance benchmarks
- Define concrete goals
- High integrity, no surprises, productivity & value creation, development of talentAh, to dream of such skills in our BOE…
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Did anyone notice that the Hour must be reading this blog? Today’s paper boasts “Police Reports” Imagine that! Must be their New Years Resolution. Now if they could just get reporters that actually cover a story rather than contacting someone for an on the phone interview of their perspective. NAHHHHH
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Its ok two days to hear about the stabbing on washinton st seems they are getting better. You can rest assured they have a clipping service pull the word Hour from here on a regular basis and thats been going on since Turfgrrl open the doors same with the Advocate. They also had a stabbing at the homless shelter as well I think the first one of the year no one has said anything about yet according to a Norwalk ems worker.
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The answer to solving the city problems is through informing the public. The majority of the public is oblivious to the serious problems in our local government. The newspapers will not report on problems that the public needs to know. We have a serious problem in our city. Has anybody thought about contacting every news media outlet in the country. The local news refuses to inform us. I am convinced Norwalk has news worth national attention.
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I still say list the weather, the tide charts and bridge openings get some school LA teacher to get someone to write sports and use the blog like news source and you have that media. This site is closer than one would think.You would be surprised how many officials, news and organizations read this blog.
I read this earlier the above posting its what we also need in our own city hall and all depts.
Expose areas of underperformance
- Pulling together cross functional teams
- Establishing performance benchmarks
- Define concrete goals
- High integrity, no surprises, productivity & value creation, development of talentthen again to have this within the entire city we wouldn’t need the blog for these kind or postings it would start reading like the Hour and Advocate.
please note I havn’t asked for a comic thread yet I think that would be pushing it.
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1- Stop making Norwalk provide all the affordable housing for the state of CT.
2- Get rid of Corda and his entire staff.
3- Get Norwalk to do smart development instead of development to make the out of town developers rich.
4- Bring the small town feel back to Norwalk.
5- Always limit the mayors term to 2 years or less.
6- Make Norwalk a place with quality of life, not quantity of people.
7- Pick up leaves at curb side like many other surrounding cities and towns do. We need to feel like are tax dollars do more than just provide the worst school system in the county. -
Its too late to stop anything in Norwalk we simply have to deal with what we have now effectively, any takers on the job?
