Submitted by
Mayor Arlene Filkoff
“Interest in the white balloon meetings seems to be a bit better, so I will schedule three more of them for upcoming weeks. Again, I will attempt to answer any and all questions you might have and hopefully you can share your thoughts with me.
We had a great turnout at the meeting held at Peck and a request was made to hold regular meetings there, so I will.
MEETINGS AT PECK: 10:00 on
September 7
October 5
November 2
December 7
UPCOMING WHITE BALLOON MEETINGS: 10:30 on
August 29th at the Fernandina Beach Golf Club back porch
September 5th at the Gazebo in Central Park
September 12th at the Airport Parking Lot (bring a chair)
My regular monthly meeting is scheduled for September 6th at 7:00pm in the Police Department Community Room.
Again, you can contact any of your commissioners by phone or email (info on the city website). Please take the opportunity to do so if you have questions or comments you’d like to share. My email is [email protected] and my cell number is 583-8629.
There is a lot going on in the City and you should have all the information you need to understand the issues and give your input.
Looking forward to seeing you!! I’ll be the one holding the white balloon!”
August 22, 2012 10:18 a.m.
Arlene
he would rather fire Police or Fire Department peonrsnel, or not hire to fill vacancies which is the same thing, than to consolidate duplicate recreational programs and provide free busing to another facility. It seems the City Manager would rather risk the citizens’ safety than reduce spending through consolidation. Oh, the City Manager did offer closing BOTH pools, which he knows won’t happen, rather than closing just one of them. Interesting. . .The City Manager had the very competent Dave Lott do all the groundwork for him, six weeks is plenty of time to discuss options and be brought up to speed. The City Manager is being paid very well to do a job. Please do the work and make the difficult recommendations for cuts. And not say it is up to the Commissioners to decide what the cuts should be. Why should Vice-Mayor Bunch have to be the one to expose what is a very obvious source of deficit spending and provide a workable solution so no one is cut off from those programs??? The City Manager knows more than the Commissioners and should be giving them all the information necessary so they can direct their employee properly.