Sunday Bloggin...With a Purpose!

Good stuff overnight from Inge Oliver...If you've been curious about the entire City of Richmond RFQ for the office of violence prevention, take a look here: http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us .

Scroll down the page a bit and you can look at a few different pieces (you'll need the Adobe Acrobat software to view...if you don't have it, complain to the City office that they need to make things available for easy viewing :)

Here's Inge's note:

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As I mentioned already, this forum is a much need tool in our city, thank you again for creating it!

TRUTH TAZER SAYS: Thank you Inge! We need more good pieces like this.

I urge everybody to read at the city's web page "RFQ Office of Violent Prevention and the attachments".

It is a comprehensive outline what the city may consider to do to stop the violence in our streets.

But if you take the time to check the list what will have an impact on the budget, you can see that all the ideas, mayor Anderson brought to the table, the "bundle of bureaucracy", which really is not necessary at all, has the biggest impact on the city's budget.

I am so glad that Chief Magnus obviously is not at all convinced that we need another department with more high paid staff.

I suggested to the city's officials to appoint Ltd. Ron Berry to the Crime Prevention Coordinator for several reasons. His qualification for such a position is absolutely out of question!

*He knows where is what going on.

*He has deep roots and therefore has built the necessary trust in the community, a very crucial component for the impact/success of such a position.

*He is already on the payroll.

Hiring a new person would need at least 1-2 years to acquire the knowledge Ron Berry already would bring in for such a position, while costing us, the taxpayers, annually about $200,000, money that would be much better spend for the proposed programs.

TRUTH TAZER NOTE: Inge bringing up Berry for the position is an interesting take. I would agree that with his history with this city, he may very well be a good fit...can anyone comment as to whether he's in the running?

Irma Anderson just should admit that she desperately need one good deed with her name on for her upcoming election campaign, that's all she seems to care for!

TRUTH TAZER NOTE: PREACH ON SISTER OLIVER! I guess actions really do speak louder than words eh? Even if Mayor Anderson had/has the city's best interests at heart with all this paperwork, her prior track record makes everything she does that's connected with this look like political positioning to try and win re-election.

One can just hope that everybody "wakes up and smells the coffee"!

Sincerely,Inge Oliver

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