[RP TownTalk] Subject: Re: Code Enforcement etc.

[marc stauffer]

Thank you Bruce and Alice for sharing your correspondence.

I found it very helpful in understanding how the proposed budget and  
services are intended to change for the upcoming year.

I think the contracting out of the trash service is a brilliant idea  
on 3 fronts:
1. it's clearly a better use of our financial resources by being a  
more economical way to provide the same, or better, level of service  
that the Town expects.
2.  the contract with the trash hauler is obliged to hire on the PW  
employees who could be let go due to the change in how the Town does  
its pickup.
3.  it hopefully allows our Public Works department to focus on  
improving the amenities and appearance of Town, rather than spending  
so much time and effort on the mundane task of picking up our trash.

Regarding economic development;  I hope we can find a similarly  
innovative solution to best use our resources.  I fully support the  
addition of a staff person. My belief is that economic development  
constitutes a full time effort for a staff person with at least 3  
different areas of town needing attention (Rt. 1, town center,  
Kenilworth Avenue) and finding a way to integrate those areas into an  
economic district that helps knit the town back together, rather than  
accentuating our differences as I feel the current state of empty and  
ramshackle areas does.   Likewise with Bruce, it would be great to  
get the current report made public.

Regards,
Marc

Marc Stauffer
4913 ravenswood road


From: bruce.wernek at mindspring.com
Date: June 6, 2008 9:53:43 AM EDT
To: Alice Ewen Walker <alice at ewenwalker.com>
Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Code Enforcement etc.
Reply-To: bruce.wernek at mindspring.com


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