Who does the City Manager answer to? How come he is continously left out of
every conversation?
On Apr 29, 2013 10:20 AM, "jwkeady" <j...@educatingforjustice.org> wrote:
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> The A-Team is your team
> By Jim Keady
>
> There are a small number of people in our community that want you to be
> afraid of voting for the A-Team in the upcoming City Council election. They
> want you to think that voting for our team is too much of a risk.
>
> You know what is too much of a risk? Continuing to have an overall crime
> rate (triple the national average) that has not effectively changed in the
> twelve years that the incumbents have held power. The fact is that when you
> aggregate murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto
> thefts and arson the crime rate in Asbury Park has remained alarmingly
> steady for the entire time Forward Asbury has held office. Why? Because
> they have buried their heads in the sand on these issues. Do you want to
> ensure that your business, home value, your children, etc. remain at risk?
> Do you want another twelve years of shootings, gang violence and drugs?
> Then vote for anyone BUT the A-Team on May 14th. However, if you want to
> limit risk with regard to crime and you want to start feeling safe walking
> our streets, then the A-Team is your only choice in this year's election.
> Every member of our team has dealt effectively with engaging marginalized
> urban youth in our personal and/or professional lives. No other team
> running can say that. We have the ideas, the experience, and most
> importantly, we are committed to making our city safe for everyone.
>
> You want to talk about risk? Let's continue to have an unemployment rate
> that is 40% higher than the national unemployment rate. Let's continue to
> have 30% of our citizens live below the poverty line with another 20% just
> above it. Let's continue to have our median household income remain at
> $31,000 a year (the state average is $68,000 a year). Yes, we have a lot of
> poor people in Asbury Park and you know what? Poverty breeds crime. You
> want to address this risk? You need to do two things consistently create
> living wage jobs in our city and connect people to living wage jobs outside
> our city. Who is going to do it? Forward Asbury? They had twelve years and
> have failed miserably. The only team with a plan for lowering the jobless
> rate and increasing household income for our residents is the A-Team. We
> will focus massive amounts of energy on establishing Asbury Park as the
> premier tourist and entertainment destination on the East Coast. With
> dynamic city-wide event programming we will bring tens of thousands of
> tourists to Asbury Park fifty-two weeks of the year. There was more than
> $40 billion dollars spent on tourism in NJ in 2012. We can easily capture
> 5% of that and bring $2 billion dollars into our local economy. Steady
> programming and steady revenues leads to reduced risk for businesses, which
> leads to increased investment, which leads to more jobs, higher incomes,
> etc.
>
> Shall we go one more round on the question of risk? How about driving our
> city into an effective state of bankruptcy? We are broke. The Forward
> Asbury team has spent recklessly, they hocked every city asset they could
> for pennies on the dollar, and they more than doubled our city's debt in
> their twelve years in power. As far as the running of the day-to-day
> operations at City Hall, there is no managerial oversight and no effective
> fiscal controls. For God's sake, there are city employees who do not even
> have job descriptions. Who is going to dig us out? The A-Team is, that's
> who (start A-Team theme music here). We will tap into the resources that
> are immediately available to us to get the job done. What are these
> resources? Our residents. We have dynamic professionals in our city who
> have the skill sets and experience to effectively advise us on these
> management and fiscal matters. They only need to be asked and empowered to
> do so. We are asking them regularly on the campaign trail and many of them
> have already pledged their commitment to help us on this front. Through
> these women and men we will have more diversity of ideas and energy to
> effectively manage tax dollars and streamline city operations. Practical
> professional experience, increased numbers of stakeholders, diversity of
> skill sets
Guess what this does? That's right, it decreases risk.
>
> Let me spell it out for you as clearly as I possibly can. If you want to
> reduce the risks of crime, poverty, joblessness, mismanagement and wasteful
> spending, there is only one team to vote for in the May 14th Asbury Park
> City Council election. That is the A-Team. You will find us on the ballot
> as follows:
>
> # 13 Remond Palmer
>
> #14 Duanne Small
>
> #15 Dr. Nora Hyland
>
> #16 Daniel A. Harris III
>
> #17 James W. Keady
>
> Peace, Jim Keady
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