A Clueless City Manager

Haven't Stopped Laughing Yet!!

John Beagle wrote: Yea, Haller is a funny man. I'm sure this is about another city manager. I city manager surely knows how to work a shredder. lol

I am fairly certain that the City Manager learned to operate a shredder shortly after the flyer below was discovered in the literature rack just outside her office in March of 2009:

ground swat wrote: Doesn't the city use dumpsters?

Oh yea...that's right!!!   

After reviewing the April, 2010, newspaper article, I recant my prior assertion that I was "fairly certain that the City Manager learned to operate a shredder".  Apparently, she prefers to call in professional shredders from the "Shred-it company" to "come on site and take care of everything".

Moving Middletown Forward Committee

Suggestions for activities

• Recruit and train candidates for ward election in 2009

• Establish committees for various activities: fundraising, issues, campaign strategy

Candidate assistance

• Workshop for selected candidates: public relations, speech coaching, establish issues, raise funds ($3,000-$5,000 needed for competitive campaigns for each and establish budgets)

Recruiting suggestions

• Search for candidates who have been active in their wards and have some name recognition

• Set target fundraising for each candidate

(1/2 support candidate, 1/2 from committee through fundraisers)

Campaign suggestions

• Announce committee formation and its objectives, not giving away its main goal of recruiting and quietly helping groom selected candidates and making sure they get on the ballot before announcing campaign support for the four candidates. Keep issues to a minimum and goals for candidates. When recruiting, make sure candidates are on board concerning objectives and issues.

Other goals

• Consider ballot issue which would change the makeup of City Council.

For example: Four wards and mayor, eliminating at large seats. Wards only would make a more manageable and responsive Council.

• Consider future ballot issue which would make Butler County Commission more responsive by adding two members and dividing commission in what would essentially be wards.

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thanx 4 re-posting, Mrf.P

wasn't this available on the desk in the reception area of the city manager in the city building?

 

wouldn't this conflicy WWF's tax exempt status?

 

who are the members?

isn't admin and Council heavily represented here?

 

what have they accomplished?

 

food 4 thought in the up-coming elections!

From the MMF web site...

MIDDLETOWN MOVING FORWARD CIC
Ken Cohen, President
Cohen Brothers
Lawrence P. Mulligan Jr., Vice President
City of Middletown
Bill Triick, Secretary
The Chamber of Commerce
Judith A. Gilleland, Treasurer
City of Middletown
Fred DeBiasi
American Savings Bank
Anthony “Tony” Marconi
City of Middletown
Greg Martin
Greg Martin Excavating
Alan McCoy
AK Steel
Douglas W. McNeill
Atrium Medical Center
Bill Murphy
City of Middletown

Had to have changed by now since Murphy is long gone, perhaps since McNeill has left Atrium and Marconi is no longer a player with position in the city. Wonder who else is a player but not on this list??? Gotta be others. Would be nice to know their specific internal agenda rather than the bullsh-- noted on their website. Certainly one is controlling city hall's decisions with Mulligan and Gilleland representing the city government puppets.

Middletown Moving Forward CIC is a non-profit public/
private organization charged with directing the city’s
economic development priorities. The organization
was founded in 2005 as a partnership of the City and
The Chamber of Commerce and includes representation
from the community’s two largest employers, AK Steel
and Atrium Medical Center.