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"Cheers to Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan, who continues to find new ways to involve the city in its own resurrection."????

http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll...14/1005/OPINION

WHAT!!!!

 

Cheers because he cannot figure out what to do himself so he has to form not one but four committees?

 

Binghamton has collective amnesia because if you remember back to October 30, 2005 and another of Ryan's broken election promises, Ryan said in the Press & Sun-Bulletin newspaper in his first six months was he going to bring "people" "together" to plan to plan to make a plan. That is what he is doing now because he never did it in his first six months.

 

(I'm working on getting you the exact quote because the Press & Sun-Bulletin's on-line search archives are so useless I do not feel like wading through 2000 articles to find the right one. I'm assuming internally they have a better means of looking it up. It was in a comparative piece of all three candidates)

 

Meanwhile, without having to form even one committe here is how Rainbow Ryan can save about $6,000,000, $2,000,000 of that EVERY EAR!

 

"In his hour-long State of the City speech, Ryan announced his "partnership for change." The plan calls for four committees of staff, elected officials and residents to tackle four issues: rising personnel costs, sanitation, sustainable development and housing.

 

"I don't think we should have to make cuts or decisions without involving the public," Ryan said.

 

Over six to 12 months the groups are charged with deciding how to fund city services, combat rising costs and hold the line on city taxes."

http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll.../802140336/1001

 

How to hold the line on City taxes???

 

1. Do not build a needless and damaging Roundabout at Court & Exchange Streets. Savings $2,000,000, the City's share.

 

2. Do not extended the often flooded, little used Riverwalk to the seedy Binghamton Plaza. If residents there want to walk have them walk to the grocery store they complain is too far. Savings $800,000 plus.

 

3. Close two fire stations and cut 10 firefighters. Savings $2,000,000 PER YEAR.

 

4. Do not build or finish the muni wifi. Savings $30,000 up front and $30,000 per year every year. (Time Warner Cable should sue the city about this for unfair practices)

 

5. Fire needless and useless A&W Block Communty Relations Director (from NYC, apparently no BU or BCC grads were available) in a community he knows nothing about. Savings $40,000 + per year.

 

6. Fire Youth Director Ana Shaleo-Johnson. Kids can make videos in school. The churches, schools, hospitals, county, feds, and social agencies all do a better jobs than her with the same thing anyway. Savings $40,000+ per year.

 

7. Fire the Sustainable Development Coordinator, nobody has a clue what he does anyway. Savings $30,000 + per year.

 

8. Fire the Blight Coordinator another useless position and one already done in Planning and Housing. Savings $70,000 per year.

 

You can put back the Code Enforcement guys on the CDBG who were taken off to make room for these two useless positions so Ryan and Abdelazim can lie and say we're not paying for them.

9. Keep Jim Dessauer away from any funds. Savings $500,000.

 

We have now saved about $6,000,000 in 10 minutes.