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Ten years ago, Patrice Bergeron forced the hockey world to learn his name a lot earlier than it was supposed to.
For an inexperienced second-round pick to take over an NHL camp and make the team as an 18-year-old is extremely rare. Then again, rare is a word that's often been used to describe Bergeron.
"Honestly, I can't say that I surprised myself, because that would be unfair," Bergeron told WEEI.com this week. "When you show up, when you play, when you go on the ice, you want to accomplish something, you want to prove people wrong. I think that's the approach that I had. Even though I was also realistic that I thought I would go back to junior, I still wanted to be the best I could be and be a surprise at camp."
Bergeron came so close to not making the team that he was informed of his cut prior to the Bruins' first 2003 preseason game, but his play and character so impressed the Boston coaches and management that they couldn't justify sending him back for what would have been just his second year of junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
"I remember at the time I kept talking to [then-Bruins scout] Daniel Doré, and I kept calling him and saying, 'When are you sending Patrice back home?' " Réal Paiement, Bergeron's QMJHL coach, said this week. "[He said,] 'Very soon, Réal. Very soon.' A week later, I'd call. 'So when will you send Patrice back?' And he would say, 'Very soon, but you know, the guys really like him.'
"I called him the next week and [he said], 'You know what, Réal? He's coming, he's coming. We're going to send him back, but the coaches really like him now.' The next week was, 'You know what, Réal? We're going to keep him.' He wasn't in their plans at the beginning; he just grew on them as he had grown on us."
The Bruins were a team that was expected to contend; they'd made the playoffs the previous two seasons, and though they had a new coach and a goaltending tandem consisting of an aging Felix Potvin and a not-yet-proven Andrew Raycroft, they weren't a team that was looking to rush a teenager -- especially one with a résumé as limited as Bergeron's.
Not only was Bergeron not perceived to be NHL ready, he was still viewed as a player who was developing in the QMJHL, where he had only played one season with strong but not spectacular results.
Yet in that 2003 training camp, Bergeron gave the NHL the first of many examples of his signature work ethic and hockey smarts, forcing the Bruins to keep him on the roster and give the future Selke winner a head start on a legendary career.
"From Day 1, as soon as he stepped on the ice, there was that 'wow' factor," Martin Lapointe, Bergeron's teammate and off-ice mentor in the 2003-04 season, told WEEI.com. "The way he was on the ice, composed and really calm. The way he dealt with that situation at that early age was incredible. It showed management that there was something in the kid that was really special, and he's been showing it since Day 1 and keeps doing it."
Just months after drafting him, general manager Mike O'Connell and the Bruins had "no expectations" of Bergeron in the immediate future, and they weren't crazy for thinking that. When players make the NHL at that young an age, it's usually because they're a top-five pick going to a weak team and can struggle without the team worrying about winning.
Not only was Bergeron able to make the team at the age of 18, but before long he made himself a top-six player for the Bruins, recording 16 goals and 23 assists for 39 points over 71 games as a rookie. The Bruins learned quickly that the sky was the limit for Bergeron, whose mere presence on the roster alleviated the natural concerns that came with the idea of trading young captain Joe Thornton the following NHL season.
"He was as polished as he is now," O'Connell said of Bergeron. "He was a mature kid who just got it. It's the reason we made the trade. We traded Thornton. We thought that Patrice was the guy, the type of player you want to build your team around."
Though Bergeron made the Bruins in 2003, he was just two years removed from not making his QMJHL team. A fifth-round pick of the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, Bergeron wasn't kept for the 2001-02 season because the team couldn't envision the 5-foot-10, 145-pounder (as Paiement recalls) getting much ice time on what was a strong QMJHL roster.
He also had never played at the Midget Major AAA level, having spent the previous season playing Bantam AA, so the Titan told him to play a year of Midget Major AAA, dominate, and join up with them the next season.
He did just that, turning a strong season before finishing the campaign with the Titan. By the time he finally got to play his first full season in the "Q," Bergeron was 17 years old and in his draft year.
As far as his NHL chances stood, Bergeron didn't have the body of work to be viewed as a serious NHL prospect. He recalls not even being ranked on the Central Scouting Bureau's preliminary list. Yet as the season went on, he played at a point-per-game pace and the scouts began showing up. He more than passed the eye test.
"There's that player that goes in flashes and you learn as you watch him, you see that he doesn't do a lot of the little things," Paiement said. "Patrice is the contrary. He's the type of guy that you [watch] the first time, and he's playing and he's good, and you see him the second time, and you [notice] he's doing all the little things."
Yet when the scouts would go to see Bergeron, they came with one big question: Could he skate? Scout after scout asked Bergeron's coach about his legs, and Paiement had an answer for them.
"My answer was just saying, 'I don't know about his skating, but he ends up on the other side all the time,' " Paiement said. " 'He ends up between the D and the net all the time, so he must be doing all right with his skating.' "
Bergeron's reaction was different. Rather than going the typical play-with-a-chip-on-your-shoulder route, Bergeron listened. Professional scouts thought that his skating wasn't good enough, so he took power skating lessons and made his skating a priority leading up to the draft.
By the time the season was over, Bergeron had recorded 23 goals and 50 assists for 73 points in 70 regular-season games. He added six goals and nine assists for 15 points in 11 postseason games.
He also had gotten bigger. The once 5-foot-10, 145-pounder now was 6-foot-0 and 178 pounds. When Central Scouting came out with its final rankings, Bergeron was the 28th-ranked North American skater.
"He grew on the scouts as the year went on," Paiement said. "He's not the type of guy that started in the first round and ended up in the second. He probably started in the seventh round and ended up in the second."
When the 2003 draft rolled around, the Bruins held the 16th overall pick and had three players targeted for the selection. Atop their wish list was Zach Parise, a center from the University of North Dakota who was coming off a freshman year in which he had 61 points in 39 games to make him a Hobey Baker finalist. Parise was ranked well ahead of Bergeron and was the ninth-ranked North American skater by Central Scouting.
The other players who drew first-round consideration from the Bruins were American defenseman Mark Stuart and Bergeron. When it came time for the Bruins to pick, all three players were available.
Rather than taking Parise, which they would have done had they stayed in the slot, the B's rolled the dice. Hoping that at least one of their coveted players would still be there, O'Connell worked a deal with the Sharks (no, not that deal with the Sharks) to move down five spots to No. 21. The Sharks took Steve Bernier with the 16th pick. Then the Devils pounced, trading up to No. 17 to nab Parise and give O'Connell a decision to make.
The Bruins liked Bergeron enough that they would have taken him in the first round, but they banked on other teams not feeling the same way. Stuart was the higher-rated prospect and the B's hoped the 17-year-old Bergeron's lack of experience -- something they were happy to overlook -- would cause teams to overlook him in the first and early second.
"New Jersey stepped in and took Parise, and then came the decision where we take Stuart or Bergeron," O'Connell said. "We took Stuart because we felt [we might] have a chance at Bergeron later on because of his lack of history."
Everything went according to plan, and when Bergeron was available at No. 45, the B's made the pick. They hadn't gotten their top target in Parise, but they had just selected a lesser-known name who was poised to become one of the most important players in franchise history.
While the bullet-points version of Patrice Bergeron's path to the NHL will note that he made the team out of training camp, it was actually his rookie camp performance the week before training camp that gave the Bruins an indication that they might have something special.
Bergeron, who at the time was 18 years and one month old, was the youngest player in the team's rookie camp. He also was in a new country and still learning English, all while not really knowing anyone.
As Bergeron recalls, those factors helped him focus on hockey. He was nervous as he took the ice in front of his new bosses for the first time, but in a time of utmost uncertainty, hockey was the one thing he could control.
"Obviously, I couldn't hear or read whatever was going on about if I was doing well or not, so I didn't have to worry about that, that's for sure," he said.
With the tunnel vision the situation allowed him to have, Bergeron excelled. He stood out among the group of older, more established prospects and earned himself an invitation to main camp. Bergeron had accomplished his goal of leaving a positive impression, but the invitation put a bigger, far more unlikely goal in front of him.
"I was like, 'Well, it's good. My name's out there,' " he said. "I'd shown that I could play in it and make something happen earlier than expected."
The run wasn't supposed to last much longer, though, as Bergeron would be the QMJHL fish in an NHL pond. He'd get his taste of what NHL players were like, and then he'd wait his however-many years to become one.
Back then, the Bruins were nothing like they are now. There was no salary cap in the league, and their owner wasn't the most generous guy in the world when it came to signing veteran players. As such, O'Connell wouldn't finish the offseason with a complete roster, but rather a core group and some spots here and there that would either be filled by a younger player or a veteran who came across the waiver wire.
There were young players (Andy Hilbert among them) who had more experience and seemed to be legitimate candidates to make the team. In O'Connell's mind, he had an idea of which guys he figured would push for roster spots, but Bergeron wasn't one of them. That slowly changed.
"He came in and he was really good the first day," O'Connell said. "He was really good the second day. He was really good the third day, then the fourth day, 10th day, 12th day."
His play didn't just catch the eye of coaches and management. The quiet young forward soon began standing out to veteran players. What figured to be a day or two on the ice together soon turned into the makings of a top-six line.
"At first when he came into camp, nobody knew about him," Lapointe recalls of first seeing Bergeron. "We had no expectations. He'd go back to juniors, follow the development that he was supposed to take, and in two, three years, maybe four years he would make that big step. But every practice, every scrimmage, he would impress a lot."
Lapointe, who was drafted 10th overall by the Red Wings in 1991, was in awe of Bergeron. Not only was he holding his own with NHL players, but there was no cockiness, no immaturity. There was nothing that made any veterans uneasy about having him on the team.
"My first camp, with me being the first pick of Detroit, first round, I thought that I had it made," Lapointe recalled. "I came to camp 20 pounds overweight. But this kid didn't act like that. He was really focused, and he had a plan in mind. In that sense, he was more mature than me. He shaved a couple of years off his development to play right away, instead of me, learning from my mistakes and coming to camp the next year a lot more impressionable.
"I had to learn from my experience from the year before, but this kid never missed a beat. He knew what his plan was, he followed it and earned a spot at a very early age. His maturity was exceptional. I've never seen a kid more mature than Patrice Bergeron."
The Bruins were happy with what they'd seen from Bergeron. He had strong showings in each training camp session, but he was told early in camp that he would not be making the team.
The decision was made to let Bergeron play in the first game of the preseason against the Canadiens in Montreal and leave him behind in Canada, where he would return to the QMJHL. Doré gave Bergeron the bad news, padded with words of encouragement.
"He said, 'Well, you're doing well. Keep playing like that,' " Bergeron recalled Doré saying to him. " 'You're going to play the first game in Montreal and then you're going to go home after.'
"I was like, 'All right, fair enough. I'm pretty happy that I got a chance to play a game. I never thought I would.' "
Then the game came, and a strong performance from Bergeron, capped by an overtime goal, kept his unlikely stay in Boston alive.
"I had scored in overtime, and they were like, 'You're coming back to Boston,' " Bergeron said with a big smile. "It was like that pretty much for the rest of camp. We had nine games and I played in all of them."
Indeed he did, and with each game came the opportunity to remind the Bruins that he was a kid who had his second junior season waiting for him.
As the preseason went on, the promised trip back to Quebec never came. At the end of the ninth game came something else: a contract.
"It was very exciting," Bergeron said. "It was the perfect way [for camp] to go."
Yet the contract by no means meant that Bergeron had made the team for good. Teams are allowed to play junior-eligible players for nine games before deciding whether to use up the first year of their entry-level deal, so O'Connell and the B's planned on closely monitoring how he played to determine whether to keep him.
As it turned out, they wouldn't have had to monitor anything other than box scores to make a decision. Bergeron had two goals and five assists for seven points through his first nine games, and the team elected to not only keep him but move him onto one of their top two lines with Lapointe and Brian Rolston.
"It's not like the spots were necessarily there for me, but I felt like they gave me a chance, and I really need to thank them, all of them -- Mike [O'Connell], to Jeff Gorton, to Mike Sullivan -- they gave me a chance. That's all you can ask for really, and then you have to seize it.
"They said that before camp, and sometimes they don't necessarily follow through with it, but they did. They made room for me to make the team, and I'll always be thankful for that."
When Martin Lapointe made the Red Wings, he was a young Quebec native who was in a new country and faced very similar uncertainty to what Bergeron would face in Boston. Steve Yzerman made things a lot easier on him, inviting Lapointe to live with him.
Lapointe was always grateful for what Yzerman did for him, so he was quick to open his door to Bergeron.
"I just wanted to give some back," Lapointe said. "He was a kid from Quebec, we were both French-Canadian, and I know how it feels to be thrown into a big hockey world being so young against 20s and 35-year-old men, and on top of that not being able to speak the language that well."
Lapointe and his wife invited Bergeron to live with them and their two children, with Lapointe recalling the 18-year-old being "like a big brother" for his kids.
"You can tell he was so genuine the way that he did it," Bergeron said of the gesture. "I can't thank Marty and his family enough for what they did for me that first year. I really learned so much from him. He's a big reason why I am who I am now. I've learned so much on and off the ice as a leader just by watching him. He was a huge help, huge help for my development that year, for sure.
"I don't know what I would have done as an 18-year-old on my own in a new country, new language, new everything. That would have been really hard, but he made it a lot easier on me."
Lapointe was more than just a landlord and linemate for Bergeron as a rookie. He was the guy Bergeron followed, the guy he would take after. As Bergeron recalls, Lapointe was never an overly vocal guy, "but when he was, guys were listening."
"He'd lead by example," Bergeron said. "He always worked the hardest, always tried to be the hardest worker on and off. I remember him doing the biggest workouts after a game. After a huge game he was still doing whatever it was -- squats, bench press -- and putting a lot of weights on it. He was trying to pull me into it and push me to do it. I was doing it because he was doing it, and as a young kid that's what you want to see from leaders: guys pushing themselves and trying to get better."
As the season went on, Bergeron put together a campaign that, aside from missing 11 games with a shoulder injury, was as promising a first season as his teammates could ask for.
"He took pride in faceoffs," Lapointe said. "He was one of the best and is still one of the best. In his zone, he was really responsible. He wanted to defend first, made sure he did a good job defending, and when the puck was in the offensive zone, his talent and his skills took over."
Not only did Bergeron find himself succeeding in the NHL at a young age, he found himself doing it on a team that looked to be a legitimate Cup contender. Raycroft had emerged as a starting goaltender en route to winning the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year, while O'Connell liked the team's chances so much that he made the B's major buyers at the trade deadline, making big splashes for the likes of Sergei Gonchar and Michael Nylander.
The Bruins would finish second in the conference but were upset by the Canadiens in the first round. It was their third straight first-round exit and they were months away from a season that would not be played, but that season had given them a star.
Since then, pretty much everything but Bergeron has changed. Raycroft would become ineffective and traded for some guy named Tuukka Rask. Thornton was traded. O'Connell, Sullivan and Doré were fired. A new regime was brought in, and with it came the Stanley Cup.
As for Bergeron, he's only become one of the premier players in the NHL, the 2012 Selke Award winner as the top two-way forward in the league and a leader cut from the same cloth as Lapointe. He overcame concussions early in his career and is the best forward on a perennial contender.
And he's still 28 and signed for the next nine seasons.
"It's crazy. It goes so fast," Bergeron said. "To think it's been 10 years already is hard to believe almost, but I've learned so much throughout the league and I feel very blessed to have the chance to have such a long career when I still have a lot more left ahead of me, hopefully. It's exciting."
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Two seventh-grade students had the idea to hold a bake sale, because they are "happy to help with community service".....
Cajun Harley-Davidson is sponsoring the 3rd Annual Rice and Gravy Cookoff to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association this Saturday!
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A group is ordaining Roman Catholic women priests despite Vatican opposition, and Debra Meyers will be Cincinnati's first woman to go through the ordination on May 25. Meyers told CityBeat the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests' movement is about pressuring the Catholic Church to be more inclusive, including with women, LGBT individuals and other groups that may feel left out by the Church's current policies. The full Q&A with Meyers can be read here.In the latest budget plan, Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan is asking all city employees, including cops and firefighters, to take eight furlough days, which she says would save enough money to prevent all layoffs. That plan follows a motion co-sponsored by council members Roxanne Qualls and Chris Seelbach, which would eliminate all fire layoffs and reduce police layoffs to 25.Hamilton County commissioners voted to stop all sewer projects yesterday in opposition to the city's "responsible bidder" policy, which requires most contractors working with the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) to have apprenticeship programs. City Council, spearheaded by Seelbach, passed the measure to encourage more job training options for workers, but the county government says the measure is unfair and puts too much of a strain on businesses working with MSD. The issue will likely head to court.Commentary: "Good News Reveals Budget Deception."At last night's budget hearings, Councilman Charlie Winburn repeatedly brought up the city's so-called "credit cards," which are really procurement cards that are often used by the mayor to entertain and attract businesses to Cincinnati. Winburn says the use of the cards is outrageous when the city is considering laying off cops and firefighters, and Councilman Chris Smitherman says the system needs more controls. The cards are set up so they can only be used by city employees for certain services, and City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. says the cards make the system more efficient, which means lower prices for the city.A bill in the Ohio House revives the Medicaid expansion, which was previously opposed by Republicans as part of the budget process. Gov. John Kasich is one of the top Ohio Republicans who supports the expansion, but it's unclear how far the bill can move this time, considering many Republicans are still opposed. CityBeat covered the expansion, which would insure half a million Ohioans and save the state money in the next decade, in further detail here.The Ohio General Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would effectively ban Internet "sweepstakes" cafes, which state officials say are prone to illegal gambling activity. State Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, says the bill is a "shoot 'em and let God sort it out" approach because the bill generalizes against all Internet cafes instead of imposing specific regulations that would only target offenders. If Kasich signs the bill, it will become law.The Ohio Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit advocacy group, submitted 589 petitions to the Ohio Senate opposing a measure that would force Ohio's public universities to decide between $370 million in out-of-state tuition revenue and giving out-of-state students documents required for voting. The measure was originally sneaked into the Ohio House budget plan, but Senate officials are removing it from the budget bill and appear likely to take it up in a standalone bill. CityBeat covered the original measure here.Greater Cincinnati home sales are continuing picking up. There 2,388 homes sold in the region in April, up 22.65 percent from the year before — even better than March's 13.5-percent year-over-year rise.Researchers are now suggesting rubbing a certain kind dirt on wounds.
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City officials were either disastrously wrong or misleading the public when they insisted the parking plan was required to avoid massive public safety layoffs.
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Two council members are proposing a budget plan that would eliminate fire layoffs and reduce police layoffs to 25 by making cuts elsewhere.
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Local job numbers continued their positive trend in April, with Cincinnati's unemployment rate dropping to 6.9 percent and the rest of the region following suit. Michael Jones, research director at the University of Cincinnati Economics Center, attributed the job gains to improvements in manufacturing and continued growth in health care jobs. Still, the public sector continued to lag behind the private sector — a trend Jones says could change in the coming months as government budgets are adjusted to match higher tax revenues resulting from the recovering economy. Downtown's population growth slowed last year as available housing failed to match demand, according to Downtown Cincinnati Inc.'s annual report. In the past few years, the city has pursued multiple actions to meet demand, particularly through public-private partnerships. Most recently, City Council approved leasing the city's parking assets to raise funds that would help build 300 luxury apartments, but that plan is currently being held up in court. The second phase of The Banks riverfront project will cost $62 million, according to the report from Downtown Cincinnati Inc. That's smaller than the first phase, which cost $90 million. The second phase of the project is expected to begin this fall, and it should bring 300 apartments and 60,000 square feet of street-level retail space to the area by the end of 2015. The Banks also plans to build a $45 million hotel, which is also expected to be complete in 2015. The funding for the projects is coming through multiple public-private partnerships. After the final public hearing on the city budget Wednesday, Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan plans to introduce her own budget plan that would avoid all city employee layoffs. A statement from Quinlivan did not give much in the way of details: "My plan saves all city jobs and restores all neighborhood programs. It requires common sense and shared sacrifice of all city employees." Most recently, council members Chris Seelbach and Roxanne Qualls co-sponsored a motion that would eliminate fire layoffs and reduce police layoffs to 25 by making cuts elsewhere. The Ohio Senate plans to vote today on a measure that would effectively close down hundreds of Internet "sweepstakes" cafes around the state in an effort to eliminate illegal gambling activities. The cafes' operators insist their activities are not gambling but rather a promotional tool that helps sell Internet time and long-distance phone cards. Cincinnati's zoning hearing examiner says he's trying to reduce the time it takes to go through the zoning hearing process to less than 60 days. Three major Ohio universities, including the University of Cincinnati, and four hospitals, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital, are teaming up to find out what causes premature birth. Beginning July 1, some Ohio interstates will allow drivers to go 70 miles per hour. Find out which ones here. At congressional hearings yesterday, U.S. senators criticized Apple for legally taking advantage of the complex American corporate tax system, but Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul put the blame on Congress: Russia is building robots to "neutralize" terrorists, and other researchers are working on robots that will attempt to rescue people after disasters. The creator of the GIF says it's pronounced "jif."
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Americans are driving less, and fewer Americans are driving, according to a May 14 report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), an advocacy organization. For Cincinnati, the trend might justify a recent shift in public policy that embraces more transportation options, including more bike lanes and a streetcar. "Americans drive fewer total miles today than we did eight years ago, and fewer per person than we did at the end of Bill Clinton's first term," the report reads. "The unique combination of conditions that fueled the Driving Boom — from cheap gas prices to the rapid expansion of the workforce during the Baby Boom generation — no longer exists. Meanwhile, a new generation — the Millennials — is demanding a new American Dream less dependent on driving." The report also says U.S. transportation policy "remains stuck in the past" and needs to "hit the 'reset' button." The report, which uses U.S. Department of Transportation data from 2012, found Americans were driving about 9,000 miles a year per person in 2012, down from a peak of nearly 10,000 in 2004. Until the peak, Americans had been driving more miles each year since the end of World War II. The report finds the driving trend at odds with other means of transportation: "On the other hand, Americans took nearly 10 percent more trips via public transportation in 2011 than we did in 2005. The nation also saw increases in commuting by bike and on foot." The report attributes much of the shift to millennials, members of the generation born between 1983 and 2000, which the report says are more likely to demand public transportation and urban and walkable neighborhoods. The new expectations are largely driven by Internet-connected technologies, which are "rapidly spawning new transportation options and shifting the way young Americans relate to one another, creating new avenues for living connected, vibrant lives that are less reliant on driving," according to the report. PIRG finds the trend will likely stick as gas prices continue to rise, fewer Americans participate in the labor force and Americans demands less time spent in travel. Even if millennials begin driving more in the future, the report's findings show Americans are going to be driving much less in 2040 than federal agencies currently assume. "This raises the question of whether changing trends in driving are being adequately factored into public policy," the report reads. The report concludes local, state and federal governments should react to the new trend by planning for uncertainty, accommodating millennials' demands, reviewing the need for more highway projects, adapting federal priorities, using transportation funds based on cost-benefit analyses and conducting more transportation research. For Cincinnati, the trend could have implications for two major transportation projects: the MLK/I-71 Interchange and the streetcar. The streetcar project uses capital funding sources — some uniquely tied to mass transit projects — that some opponents argue should be reallocated to support the MLK/I-71 Interchange project. But the report's findings seem to support the city's current plans to push forward with mass transit projects like the streetcar, even while local funding for the MLK/I-71 Interchange project remains uncertain. After making changes based on feedback from public meetings, the Ohio Department of Transportation priced the interchange project at $80 million to $102 million, or $10 million to $32 million higher than the previous estimate of $70 million. The higher price didn't lead to the same outcry that resulted from the streetcar project's $17.4 million cost overrun, likely because of the interchange project's broader support, secure state funding and feedback-driven circumstances. Still, the city could share some of the higher cost burden for the MLK/I-71 Interchange project. Previously, the city planned to use funds raised by leasing its parking assets to the Port Authority for the interchange, but that plan is currently being held up in court. In 2012, the city adopted Plan Cincinnati, the city's first master plan since 1980. The plan advocates for more alternative methods of public transportation, particularly light rail and bike lanes. But the master plan does not establish means of funding, so City Council will have to approve funding over time to implement the plan.
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Council members Roxanne Qualls and Chris Seelbach proposed a motion yesterday that would reduce the amount of police layoffs to 25 and eliminate all firefighter layoffs previously proposed in budget plans for fiscal year 2014. The huge layoff reduction comes despite months of warning from the city administration that the city would have to carry out big public safety layoffs without the parking plan, which is currently stalled in court. But it's come with large cuts and shifted priorities in other areas of the budget, such as reduced funding to parks, health, human services, parades and outside agencies. (For example, the Health Department warned that cuts to its services could lead to more rats and bedbugs.) The motion from Qualls and Seelbach came just in time for last night's public hearing, which mostly focused on the cuts to parks and public safety. Ohio's unemployment rate was 7.0 percent in April, down from 7.1 percent the month before, thanks to increases in the amount of people employed and decreases in the amount of people unemployed. The gains coincided with decent job growth throughout the rest of the nation in April, which dropped nationwide unemployment from 7.6 percent to 7.5 percent. But the state gains were fairly mixed, and the amount of construction, professional and business services and federal and local government jobs actually dropped. The mixed, slow growth helps explain why conservative and liberal think tanks seemingly disagree with Gov. John Kasich that Ohio is undergoing an "economic miracle." The Hamilton County Public Health's (HCPH) food protection program is apparently the best in the United States and Canada. The Conference for Food Protection awarded the program the 2013 Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award, which "recognizes unsurpassed achievement in providing outstanding food protection services to communities," according to a statement from HCPH. Homophobic Boy Scouts supporters are rallying nationwide today to support the continuation of the Boy Scouts' homophobic rules.The Taste of Cincinnati and the the Cubs-Reds series may have helped downtown Cincinnati earn the No. 42 spot in Priceline.com's top 50 Memorial Day destinations. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources confirmed Ohio has been undergoing a boom in oil and gas production in the past two years thanks to developments in a drilling process known as fracking, which CityBeat previously covered in further detail here.Duke Energy hired a new contractor — Southern Cross Co. — to carry out gas and line inspections. Cincinnati-based Kroger developed a new system that will convert food that can't be sold or donated into clean energy to power one of its distribution centers. Convergys is selling is downtown Cincinnati headquarters as the company goes through big changes. So far the buyer is unknown. Jim Kingsbury, CEO of UC Health since 2010, is retiring. Using an optical illusion to make white people look darker can diminish racial biases, according to a new study. Earth's super-dense core is weak.
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Motion to Eliminate Fire Layoffs, Reduce Police Layoffs to 25
Qualls, Seelbach propose budget plan that would avert layoffs despite months of warnings
A budget plan proposed by two council members today would eliminate layoffs at the fire department and reduce the amount of police layoffs to 25, down from 49, by making cuts elsewhere, particularly by forcing city employees to take 10 furlough days in fiscal year 2014.Council members Roxanne Qualls and Chris Seelbach are co-sponsoring the motion. If it's approved by City Council, the amount of city employee layoffs in the fiscal year 2014 budget would drop to 84, down from the original "Plan B" estimate of 344, by amending Mayor Mark Mallory's budget proposal, which was announced yesterday.The news is being well received by public safety advocates, but it's also vindication for some of the city's harshest critics. Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley previously said the city was acting like "the boy who cried wolf" by suggesting it had to lay off 344 city employees, including 80 firefighter and 189 police positions."In 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 … they threatened to lay off police and firefighters, and it never happened," Cranley previously told CityBeat.But avoiding the layoffs comes with large cuts and shifted priorities elsewhere: Furlough days for supervisory and leadership personnel would be bumped up from five to 10 ($250,000 in savings), all council members would be asked to take 10 furlough days ($22,700), City Council's office budgets would be reduced ($18,000), the clerk of council's office budget would also be reduced ($46,000), the departments of community development and economic development would be merged ($171,000) and the account for firefighter's protective gear would be reduced ($100,000). In total, the cuts in the motion add up to $607,000.The cuts would be in addition to larger cuts proposed by the city manager and mayor, which include reduced funding to parks, human services, parades and outside agencies.The motion will be formally introduced at tonight's Budget and Finance Committee meeting, which will also act as a public hearing for budget issues. The hearing will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Duke Energy Convention Center.The layoff reductions come after the city manager and mayor spent a bulk of the past six months repeatedly warning that the city would have to carry out significant public safety layoffs if the city didn't lease its parking assets to the Port Authority. That plan would have opened up funds to help balance the budget for two years and pay for economic development projects, including a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27).But the parking plan is now held up in court, and the city is apparently able to avoid most of the layoffs despite the repeated warnings.The city must enact a budget by May 31, which will give the city the required 30 days to implement the plan by fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1.
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Mayor's Budget Plan Reduces Public Safety Layoffs
Revisions will reduce city layoffs, make cuts to outside agencies
Mayor Mark Mallory announced revisions to the city manager's budget plan today that will reduce the amount of layoffs by making several additional cuts, particularly in funding that goes to outside agencies, and using recently discovered revenue. Mallory's changes will restore 18 firefighter positions, 17 police positions, three inspector positions at the Health Department and two positions at the Law Department, reducing the total layoffs to 161, with 49 of those being police positions and 53 being firefighter positions. To balance out the restored positions, the mayor is suggesting closing down two more recreation centers: Westwood Town Hall Recreation Center and Mt. Auburn Recreation Center. He is also suggesting cuts to the mayor's office budget ($32,000) and outside agencies ($1.3 million), including the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC), the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, the Center for Closing the Health Gap, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce and the African American Chamber of Commerce. Mallory's revised budget plan also makes use of about $500,000 in revenue that was not located in time for City Manager Milton Dohoney's budget proposal. Mallory justified the cuts by saying public safety must come first, but he says he would keep the funding under better circumstances. "The progress we have seen in our city cannot stand on its own without an emphasis on public safety," he said. The budget will have to be enacted by June 1 to give the city 30 days to implement the changes before fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1. It will now move to City Council, which will be able to make its own changes. Mallory stressed that the city's $35 million operating budget deficit is being driven by a few outside factors, including reduced state funding, court challenges holding up the parking plan and the recent economic downturn. Gov. John Kasich has cut local government funding by about half in his state budget plans, which Dohoney estimated cost Cincinnati about $22.2 million in 2013 ("Enemy of the State," issue of March 20). The city was planning to make up for some of that lost funding by leasing its parking assets to the Port Authority and using the funds to help balance the deficit and fund development projects around the city, including a downtown grocery store ("Parking Stimulus," issue of Feb. 27). But opponents of the plan, who say they are cautious of parking rate hikes and extended parking meter hours, have successfully held up the plan in court and through a referendum effort. Cincinnati's population has steadily decreased since the 1950s, which means the city has been taking in less tax revenue from a shrinking population. That was exacerbated by the Great Recession, which further lowered tax revenue as people lost their jobs and cut back spending. Still, the city has run structurally imbalanced budget since 2001, according to previous testimony from Budget Director Lea Eriksen. The previous budgets were balanced through one-time revenue sources, but Dohoney told media outlets last week that, barring the parking plan, those sources have run out.
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At a Budget and Finance Committee meeting on May 13, City Council members grilled City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. on how the city will fix the streetcar project's $17.4 million budget gap.
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