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Selling taxpayers on policy advisers
Mayor faces public-relations conundrum
To several generations of geeks, it's called a Kobayashi Maru scenario -- a no-win situation in which every decision results in some sort of unfavourable outcome.
In 2009's Star Trek reboot and the 1982 classic The Wrath of Khan, young military candidates are presented with a rescue simulation that results in their destruction no matter what course they choose.
Winnipeg's Mayor Sam Katz faces a similarly unwinnable test with the 2013 operating budget, which includes a plan to spend $722,000 to reverse a five-year-old decision to get rid of City of Winnipeg policy advisers.
Back in 2008, former chief administrative officer Glen Laubenstein engineered a public-service reorganization that saw the city dissolve two small but important departments. One was the CAO secretariat, which was a group of policy analysts and other apolitical support staff who worked directly for the city's top civil servant.
The other was EPC secretariat, which also contained policy advisers but functioned in a more political role. EPC secretariat's small staff co-ordinated the agenda-setting efforts of city council -- primarily the mayor and executive policy committee -- with the work conducted by city administrators.
The point of Laubenstein's reorganization was to eliminate redundancy and maybe save some money. Most, but not all, of the advisers from the two dissolved departments soon left the city.
Their absence was noticed quickly as 2009 turned out to be a gong show. A new garbage-collection plan was unveiled only a week before a council vote. A complex proposal to replace the water and waste department with a new utility was botched during the rollout phase, amended on the fly by council and eventually tossed aside. Property officials tried to slide the controversial Parker land swap by council days before a summer recess.
Initially, the mayor resisted the idea he needed to re-hire policy advisers. But as the dearth of oversight began to extract a greater public-relations toll, Katz added experienced advisers such as current chief of staff Bonnie Staples-Lyon to his office. Phil Sheegl, Laubenstein's successor as CAO, followed suit by adding former NDP cabinet adviser Etoile Stewart to his own staff.
Now, in the aftermath of a disastrous 2012 that included both the water-park debacle and the fire-paramedic station construction scandal, Katz agrees it was a bad idea to get rid of all the big brains.
"There's no doubt in my mind it was a mistake," the mayor told reporters after the budget was tabled. "And now we're bringing something back that's different, that will deal with more issues for less than half the money."
The 2013 operating budget calls for the city to rehire four advisers to staff a new "policy development and communications office" that will resume the unloved but essential task of killing bad ideas before they are made public and otherwise managing the direction of city hall.
The $722,000 tab will be offset by a $125,000 transfer from Sheegl's office budget. Overall, the spending is a drop in the bucket in a $921.6-million operating budget.
But that's still tough to explain to homeowners facing a 3.87 per cent property-tax hike. The idea Winnipeggers need to spend money to help city hall prevent itself from making dumb decisions likely won't go over well.
Hence the no-win situation facing the mayor. But it gets better, as the budget also includes $600,000 in additional spending on office budgets for councillors. The 2013 budget calls for every councillor to be able to spend $114,000 this year on assistants, advertising and other office expenses, compared with $74,000 in 2012. Again, councillors say they need this cash to better respond to residents.
That may be entirely legitimate, but good luck explaining that to homeowners facing their second property-tax hike in a row -- or the third, if you count 2011's frontage-levy hike.
Katz is correct when he says Winnipeg has low municipal property taxes compared with other cities. As well, he also made amends for the 2011 frontage-levy shell game, when he tried to claim $14 million in new frontage revenues would be devoted to fixing streets. That cash only replaced money removed from the roads budget.
This year, a one per cent property-tax hike really will be dedicated to road renewal. The budget documents prepared by city finance officials are even more transparent than usual.
But the public may not be in any mood to accept the idea of higher taxes or new spending on council budgets or hiring a quartet of policy advisers. From a public-relations standpoint, Katz really cannot win.
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Bartley Kives wants you to know his last name rhymes with Beavis, as in Beavis and Butthead. He aspires to match the wit, grace and intelligence of the 1990s cartoon series.
Bartley joined the Free Press in 1998 as a music critic. He spent the ensuing 7.5 years interviewing the likes of Neil Young and David Bowie and trying to stay out of trouble at the Winnipeg Folk Festival before deciding it was far more exciting to sit through zoning-variance appeals at city hall.
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One lasting impression is that South African industry is tied into an enormous battle to be globally competitive. This view appears to be quite representative across a broad section of industries.
Severe challenges posed by imports, primarily (but not exclusively) from the Far East, are a reality. Our market is just another target market for companies producing enormous volumes and the extent of government subsidisation and support in some of these countries poses a real threat to local industry.
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Of greater concern is the real possibility that our industries are just not competitive, even in a fair trade environment.
Our history entails a legacy of protection and a focus on being self-sufficient, stemming from the sanctions era. While we developed world-class technologies in areas ranging from defence to the chemicals industry and agriculture, very few of our major inventions and technological advances made it into the global arena in a big way.
In addition, our primary industries con- sist of only a handful of players established in an era where 'sanction busting' was the way to get into global markets. Many of these cornerstone industries are the ones most often applying for additional protection against imports.
Our most commonly recognised big indus- try that finds itself integrated into global supply chains is the automotive industry and this seems to be possible mainly as a result of substantial government support. While this may sound rather damning, it provides enormous insight. Most governments around the world support big industry in one way or another. Should our government not have more industry-focused programmes at the scale of the automotive industry programme?
With an enormous need for job creation, the current focus on support for small, medium-size and microenterprises (SMME) is both commendable and necessary. SMMEs are, however, exposed to global trends and unfair trade practices, with limited ability to withstand the rigours of the international market. While building an economy primarily on SMMEs may assist in job creation and provide greater social stability, it does little to integrate our industries into global supply chains, where production takes place with the benefit of real economies of scale.
To develop a globally competitive export industry, a substantial local market is often required. Even with the size of our population, our spending power on more than the most basic items is limited. For many industries, the benefit of having a significant local industry as a springboard just does not exist.
The common strategy of always seeing Africa as a primary market to develop that springboard into the global market is also flawed as most African markets are already importing at globally competitive prices, and obtaining market penetration is a lot more difficult than originally thought.
It should be clear that the stumbling blocks to South Africa becoming a global player are not only a lack of skills and perceived high electricity costs – the truth is we are behind the curve on global industrial development and challenges like skills shortages and a volatile currency are just secondary hurdles.
There appears to be only one answer – government and industry need to replicate what has been achieved in the automotive sector for other key industrial sectors, and this needs to be done with the same urgency and in parallel with the development of SMMEs.
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on Jan 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm
It seems to me the problem isn't so much MediaNews as it is that your beloved Mountain View residents don't support newspapers like they should. If they cared about getting news about their city, things would be different. Unfortunately, they're apathetic Americans who think everything should be free.
on Jan 4, 2008 at 5:53 pm
As long as the City Council isn't up to something really evil or boneheaded, why would the average person want to pay attention to what the City Council is up to? Seems pretty normal and sane to want to spend that time paying attention to one's own life.
Seems like the trick is to find the audience of people who are interested, and figure out a business model that works with that audience. It may mean doing something other than traditional print newspapers. Very likely something on the Web.
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Richard, thats clever m8, especially when its on "live"!,...............lol
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Flying first or business class all over the world getting paddock passes meeting all the riders ,having the best viewing seats and going to all them after race partys over the years ! What fool would want that job !/?
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No loss at all really, although no one doubts she is s nice girl.
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Good luck for the future Suzy and thanks for making MotoGP such a good programme. Your knowledge and professionalism will be missed, no doubt.
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Well i certainly dont agree that Susy has lost her looks, she was agreat mix of personality, looks and yet with biking knowledge and added balance to the programmes. I dont think she could ever please the "profesionals" on here, but who cares. :Lets hope her wish for a family can happen once she has stopped dashing around the world
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should be someone who has raced and therefore will have the technical knowledge and know what they are talking about like James Haydon or Jane Omorogbe who rides bikes for a living. Who the h*ll is Georgie Thompson ??? and Christine Bleakley??? VBH is a car person - yes she rides a bike but so what that doesn't amke her an expert? It would be like having another Charlie Cox (sorry Charlie). I hope they choose someone for their experience with bikes and racing and not for their looks. It makes for boring TV.
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we are going to miss you suzi.......hope you make the odd come back now and then , by the way you still look hot , good luck with your new venture . cheerio hot stuff .
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Sad to see her go :-( Can still get the Suzi fix on the Gadget Show though :-D
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Town Plot is 3 miles from the North End, but it might as well be in a different time zone. North Waterbury was gray, gritty homes on sharp hillsides above noisy mills. Town Plot was, and is, split levels, vinyl siding and flat lawns around the Waterbury Country Club. The Giordanos bought a corner lot down the street from Holy Cross High School. Everything seemed set for the children to excel.
It was a well-ordered home. The children had chores. Like a lot of old-world Italian families, the Giordanos kept a second kitchen in the basement, and it opened on a lush, if tiny, backyard garden. Rocco Sr. pulled weeds and trimmed shrubs early weekend mornings, and on Sundays, guests got a glass of homemade red wine.
Philip Giordano drifted through high school. Holy Cross regularly produces hometown athletes and aspiring pols, but Giordano wasn't shaping up as either. He was "Philbert," the slightly pudgy kid near the beer keg at parties - when he wasn't smoking pot in the bushes. He made the football team, but didn't play.
"He was a bench rider," classmate Gary Iannicelli said. "He was a big party guy in high school, a wise guy."
Classmate James Fried was more blunt: "He was like our class's village idiot. They wouldn't let him walk across the stage for his diploma."
Talk like that hurt, although it is not clear now whom it hurt more, Giordano or his parents. What followed suggests that someone decided things had to change. The future mayor enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. His military record shows Giordano served from his high school graduation until 1985 as a bulk-fuel man on a troop transport in Korea. It wasn't exactly glamorous, but he returned home a changed man.
He enrolled at Mattatuck Community College in Waterbury, then transferred to the University of Connecticut, where he obtained an undergraduate degree in political science a year early in August 1988. Then came the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. In Lansing, he met Teresa Carlson. They became serious, and during school breaks he introduced her around town as his fiancee.
While he awaited admission to the bar - and stayed in touch with Carlson - Giordano's father got him a patronage job through a tailor who hailed from the same small town, Frijento, Italy, and had a cousin in the city corporation counsel's office. Giordano was hired as an investigator assigned to work with lawyers in the city legal department; it was his first taste of professional politics.
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"Holy Cross said I'd never amount to anything," Giordano crowed at his 10th high school reunion at the Aqua Turf in Southington, as he passed out his business cards. "Ha!"
As an investigator, his work was satisfactory. He was diligent. He did what he was told, like any other eager-to-please young lawyer. In fact, the big knock on the future mayor was his attire. A lawyer involved with Giordano in a protracted case said he wore a shiny black shirt to court every day.
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LaPorta, a sales clerk, helped Giordano work through his furniture needs, and that was the end of Teresa Carlson. Carlson (today, coincidentally, a supervisory FBI agent in charge of white-collar crime in Alabama) was out of Giordano's life so quickly and completely that he couldn't be bothered to mail her personal things to Michigan. Carlson was said by acquaintances to be devastated.
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MANILA, Mar 7 (PNA) — Bamboo industry in Region IV-A (CALABARZON), which include the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon, has surpassed its targets for 2013, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
For 2013, the region's bamboo industry grew its investments to P4.88 million from an annual target of P1 million.
Revenue of the bamboo industry locally was also beyond the P2.22-million sales as it earned a total of P2.82 million last year.
The industry also created 152 jobs in 2013 alone, surpassing its expected employment generation of 30 jobs.
DTI added that within a year, its regional office in CALABARZON created a total of 13 micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to expand the bamboo industry there.
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SSF program is a flagship initiative of DTI that aims to empower MSMEs in the country in order to enhance the quality of their products and improve production capacity.
The program also drives local MSMEs to compete not only in the local market, but offshore as well.
A total of P14.9 million was allocated for the region last year through SSF to buy more advance technologies and equipment.
Aside from SSF program, DTI also provided trainings, relevant advocacies in terms of information dissemination, and business opportunities to these MSMEs that venture into the bamboo industry.
A total of 35 MSMEs in Region IV-A were assisted by the agency last year.
The administration issued Executive Order No. 879 which was passed May 2013.
The policy has created the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council (PBIDC) to improve competitiveness of the country's bamboo industry to create business activities and jobs in the said industry.
DTI chaired PBIDC with member agencies such as Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), League of Municipalities of the Philippines and representatives for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Private Industry Associations (PIAs).
Trade value of bamboo products in global market from 2007 to 2010 averaged at US$ 1.49 billion.
The global bamboo industry also expects a growth of US$ 2 billion annually and aims to hit US$ 20 billion in 2015. (PNA)


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Ubisoft has sent word that their recently announced racing title The Crew will be available across PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One come Autumn 2014.
Described as an online-only racing title akin to an MMO, The Crew allows racing fans to drive around in a massive, open-world recreation of the United States as they compete against players and pre-determined challenges. To help showcase what that all means is a new gameplay trailer premiered today showing off four cars, each with different tuning specs and riding in an iconic region of the United States.
Pre-orders have also opened up for the game, with two different editions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Limited Edition will grant early access to rides that will prepare gamers for any road—and off-road—conditions. Players who pre-order this edition will receive early access to the BMW Z4 sDrive35is, Mini Cooper S, and Dodge Ram SRT-10 and their respective sets of full custom and performance parts. The Muscle Edition, which can only be pre-ordered at GameStop, will include all early unlock content from the Limited Edition and will also grant exclusive early access to the 2015 Ford Mustang GT. Both Editions include 10,000 bonus Crew Credits.
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Rockland, Mass – Integrated Builders constructed a 22,000 square foot build out for California-based label and packaging manufacturer Avery Dennison at the Westborough Office Park. The original office was completely gutted and is now home to the company's Retail Branding and Information Solutions (RBIS) division. The new space, designed by IA Interior Architects includes enhanced lighting and a new lobby that incorporates large amounts of open space to encourage employee interaction and collaboration.
The modernized office outfitted with high-end designs represents growth for the RBIS division that employs 20,000 people, 100 of which are in Massachusetts. The new space will comfortably accommodate 100 employees and includes space for a training wing and café space. The circular lobby represents the new global reach for Avery Dennison that has operations in over 50 countries with over 30,000 employees. New conference rooms have innovative audiovisual equipment to support both local and global operations.
Work on the fast track project began before Memorial Day and was completed by the end of July. Neil J. Hurley and Timothy Betjemann of Colliers International Development and Consulting Services oversaw the project for Avery Dennison. Integrated Builders collaborated with subcontractors Tech Mechanical Systems of W. Bridgewater and S. Donnelly Electric of Lakeville to assist in the construction.
"Integrated Builders was brought in early to help facilitate budgeting and influence the design detailing process," stated Paul Comeau, Project Director of IA Interior Architects. "The Integrated Builders team always kept the client's best interest in mind when making decisions that affected the budget and schedule throughout a very intense construction schedule."
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I've been on a month-long Star Wars bender. Of course, it won't be wrapped up until after I play through The Force Unleashed next month, but I caught a couple of doses of Star Wars.
Obi-Wan is a snarky badass
The Clone Wars movie (which, if I understand correctly, is really a pilot for an upcoming TV series) is a computer-graphics animated telling of the story of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan learner. If you're a Star Wars fan, you should try to catch this on the big screen. That said, I wasn't super-excited by this feature, so if you're not a serious fan, there are probably other movies that you could go catch. There are continuity errors (Anakin battles Dooku, which never happened… they re-arranged the OPENING GOD DAMNED THEME… and R2 isn't a mouse droid because the MSE Messenger Droid hadn't been invented yet, as Emi pointed out), and while the opening half-hour is an awesome, epic, intense battle of the Clone Wars, the rest of the movie drops down in pace. Things are cutesied-up for the anticipated TV cartoon (kids) audience. But, y'know, it's got good lightsaber duels and all. And Obi-Wan gets his snarky attitude back! (The novelization of Revenge of the Sith was filled with great one-liners that were inexplicably missing from the film.)
On a brighter (er… well, better) note, I just finished the Legacy of the Force series of 9 novels. They read REALLY quickly — it took me under a month — which isn't to say that they're simple or light, but rather to say that they're difficult to put down. The story is set 40 years after A New Hope, and is bleak and dark. The New Republic has long since failed, Jacen Solo (son of Han and Leia) is going to the dark side, and yet another Galactic Civil War is about to break out as Corellia decides it's had enough of the Galactic Alliance. The series brings in many of the classic characters (Boba Fett, the Solos and Skywalkers, and characters from throughout the EU books such as Admirals Pellaeon and Daala, many of the New Jedi Order Jedi Knights and Masters, etc). It also does a great job at trying to tie some serious themes back through the Star Wars story, all the way back to prequel-trilogy analyses of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader's successes and mistakes. And if I didn't mention this yet, it's bleak and dark. All in all, this was a satisfying read.


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UPDATE: Police have made a third arrest in connection with a robbery at a Hess Express in Campbelltown.
According to officials, 25-year-old Zachary Curtis Strawser of East Birch Street in Palmyra had driven two other men to and from the store. Randall Allen Madsen, 22, and Richard Lucas Fogleman, 19, both of Palmyra, have already been arrested.
Police said Strawser drove Madsen and Fogleman to an area just west of Hess Express in the 2900 block of Horseshoe Pike on March 16. Strawser dropped them off, then picked them up after the robbery.
Strawser was charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and taken to Lebanon County Central Booking. He was arraigned and incarcerated in Lebanon County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Previously reported: Police have arrested two men for the weekend robbery of a Campbelltown convenience store.
Randall Allen Madsen, 22, and Richard Lucas Fogleman, 19, both of Palmyra, are in custody for the robbery at the Hess Express, at 2949 Horseshoe Pike, according to South Londonderry Township police.
Both have been charged with robbery and conspiracy.
Investigators said Madsen was arrested Thursday after he was identified through surveillance video from the store, and Fogleman turned himself in to police Friday on unrelated summary charges from Lancaster County.
Police said Fogleman was wearing a skeleton-style mask when he confronted the store clerk and claimed to have a gun, while Madsen acted as a lookout and helped to carry stolen merchandise that included cigarettes.
No gun was displayed during the crime, police said.
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Jerry Jones is sure taking care of a lot of Jon Gruden's work for him as he assembles a coaching staff in Dallas now built around coach Jason Garrett.
Whispers have been that Jones wants to hire Gruden out of ESPN's broadcast booth and bring him to Dallas. There is certainly circumstantial evidence in place right now that would lead you to wonder long and hard about the possibility.
Monte Kiffin has been hired as defensive coordinator and he has brought with him Rod Marinelli to run the defensive line after Jones ordered Rob Ryan be fired. Bill Callahan has been giving play calling duties that have been stripped from Garrett, who was also forced to fire his brother John, the tight ends coach.
The Cowboys are now reported to be pursuing Rich Bisaccia to coach special teams. He's at Auburn and also worked for Gruden previously in Tampa. If the Cowboys are successful in landing Bisaccia, they will have a good portion of the old band Gruden worked with back together. They will also have the most talented quarterback Gruden has worked with -- Tony Romo -- since an aging Rich Gannon.
What's the next logical step? Well, it's Gruden, of course. Maybe Jones is trying to force Garrett out the door? Who knows? That was the word on the street in Mobile, Ala., in the coaching community. Stay tuned.
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Already home to some of the most buzzed-about emcees in the game, Top Dawg Entertainment is apparently fixing to branch out into the R&B arena. The label's taken on a new "affiliate," up-and coming songstress SZA. While nothing's been made official just yet, they'd be wise to write up a contract tout de suite, as Teen Spirit sounds like the work of an artist on the fast track to success. WondaGirl, the 16-year-old beatsmith behind Jay Z's Crown, mans the mixing boards on this melancholy cut, layering swirling synths over trap-tinged percussion as the singer addresses rueful lines to a past love. Despite its mournful theme, this joint has an eerie appeal likely to have listeners hitting "repeat." But enough out of me—are you feeling it? If so, watch our pages for further singles off the TDE signee's forthcoming Z EP, which has yet to receive a solid drop date.
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A boat full of happy anglers just back from a six hour red snapper fishing trip. Once you see their haul, you can see why everyone but the fish, are smiling.
"Catch your limit pretty quick?" "Well yeah," says Jim Jansen of Foley. "Two fish. How long does it take to catch two fish?"
"We've limited out almost every day," says charter captain Randy Boggs of the 'Reel Surprise'. "The size of the fish is phenomenal."
Pulling in a 15 to 20 pound fish is nothing unusual. "These fish now won't hardly raise an eyebrow but 10 years ago this would have been an impressive catch," says Boggs.
The snapper bonanza is almost over. Twenty-eight days of getting them while you can. While federal regulators debate who gets what and how many, charter captains and crews are ready for a break. "We've averaged two trips a day almost continually all the way through and the weather has been crappy. So my guys are tired and beat up. So it's been really, really hard."
The boats are tied up now but they may not be for long. There is talk of a fall red snapper season that would happen some time in September and October and be almost three weeks long.
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When you're giving out your phone number or reading a number back to someone how do you say the noughts – are they 'ohs' or 'zeros'?
If you were saying, for example, the police non-emergency number 101 out loud would you pronounce it as one oh one or one zero one?
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How do you organise the digits when giving out a phone number? Do you read them all individually, so oh ... two ... oh ... eight, or do you put them together in pairs, so oh two ... oh eight, or do you do them as threes, so oh two oh ... eight five nine etc?
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NORRISTOWN Ś A Montgomery County Court judge is expected to fill the vacant Spring-Ford Area School Board seat within the week.
Common Pleas Court Judge Bernard A. Moore heard testimony Tuesday from both Clinton Jackson and Janet Stokes, the two finalists the school board was unable to decide upon in two separate meetings last month. The pair were the only ones to file petitions for the seat.
ōI have a good idea of what is necessary,ö to serve on a school board, said Moore, a former Colonial School District board member. ōI want to express the courtÆs appreciation for you both applying for this position.ö
Both Jackson and Stokes went over their qualifications again before Judge Moore, with Jackson, represented by attorney Frank Bartle, leading off.
A senior project manager with Jacobs Engineering, Jackson has advocated the expansion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses in Spring-Ford along with approaching local business to form partnerships and ōco-opsö for learning opportunities.
In 2009, Jackson ran for the school board but lost on the Republican side of the ballot by six votes and on both sides by a total sum of 79.
ōI want to be a part of building the foundation. I want to be a part of that building block and guide the district where it needs to go,ö Jackson said. ōIÆm a problem-solver. I like being involved in the community ... ItÆs my community. I want to help build the school district.ö
As in the past, Jackson emphasized his ability to manage large budgets and projects with many different people.
A volunteer coach and member of the Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA advisory board, Jackson said heÆs checked out the time commitment to the school board and believes he can swing it or will adjust accordingly with the school board being his top priority.
Stokes, who served on the school board from 1997 to 2005 and on the district planning committee before that, represented herself in the hearing.
ōThe school board needs someone with time and experience to get through the 21 months left on the term,ö Stokes said.
She hopes to add ōrigorö to the districtÆs curriculum and advocated in her interviews before the school board a mentor system similar to the ones her sons experienced when they switched over from Spring-Ford schools to private schools for high school.
ōI believe that quality education is the greatest thing we can give our children,ö Stokes said. ōI believe Spring-Ford is a good school district. I want to be a part of the team that will make this a great school district.ö
Although Jackson said he has experience building school districts, such as a project spanning from 2000 to 2008 in Patterson, N.J., Stokes said Spring-FordÆs population has steadied and the focus moving forward should be on curriculum development.
ōWeÆre not going to be building any new schools,ö Stokes said. ōThatÆs for sure.ö
Julie Mullin, whose reluctant resignation following election to the Upper Providence tax collectorÆs position opened the Region II seat, was in the courtroom and prepared to speak on StokesÆ behalf. However, Moore said he wanted to ōtreat both candidates the same,ö and Bartle said he didnÆt think MullinÆs opinion should hold any sway.
Mullin sat beside her former colleague Bernard Pettit, who remains on the school board and voted for Stokes in all three of the votes the school board took.
Pettit, Joe Ciresi, Dawn Heine and Tom DiBello voted for Stokes while Mark Dehnert, Will Cromley, Todd Wolf and Kelly Spletzer all voted for Jackson.
Among the exhibits put forward by Bartle on JacksonÆs behalf was a letter signed by seven members of Limerick and Upper ProvidenceÆs Republic committee. The letter was written up by Limerick Republican Committee Chairman and Limerick Supervisor Thomas Neafcy Jr.
A point of contention for some has been the fact that StokesÆ three sons attended private high schools after attending Spring-Ford for kindergarten through eighth grade.
Bartle asked her about that Tuesday.
ōWe gave them the opportunity to attend a private high school and they wanted to meet that challenge and rigor,ö Stokes said. ōIÆm not going to apologize for not sending my children to (Spring-Ford Area High School).ö
Jackson was not asked any questions by Stokes or anyone but Bartle and Moore.
Moore said he will take everything ōunder advisementö and a decision is likely to be announced later this week, meaning the next Spring-Ford Area School Board workshop meeting will feature either Jackson or Stokes.