Our Council People

It has come a time where we need to use our votes to remove the old and get new with better vision and a team that will work better together with the people. Let me ask you all a question. When was the last time your council person held a meeting to hear your voices and concerns? This is something I think should be done every 3 months. See what council people dont understand is, the importance of communicating effectively and consistently with your area you represent. It is a shame that we have people in Irvington who dont look for change and to many are set in their own way. Politics isnt about friendship, its about business and doing business as need be. The only way we will be able to change anything in this town, we will have to communicate as a masses and vote looking for change and expecting it from our candidates.

I proposed something that I think you all would be interested in hearing. In this day and age, I think it would be the best thing for council people to create a web page or web site where people in their area will be able to contact them with issues and concerns. Having the web site or page would be good because even if you can reach your council person and they cant get directly back to you, they can respond through email. It will also allow others to see more of what other people are thinking about and what others are doing. Your council person could post news, information and other concerns that we need to know. This will enable people to place their concerns directly to the council and they can be address accordingly. This will also create a strong communication throughout irvington because comments can be posted and response can be posted as well, so people can now vote on how a council person really cares about their well being. The council we have now is old and time to move out. My other question to you is, when was the last time your council person notified you of something important in the township you needed to know?

So irvington residents we need to use our votes as a tool. STOP letting them sale you a bunch of bad bananas and vote according to the accomplishments in your area and in the town. Thats why a web site will be perfect. They stand at the polls and ask for your votes and they smile at you and tell you to vote for them, but do you see them any other time. NO!! I know you are all upset about the tax hike we just had and I am sure you all weren't told by your council person through a mass mailer were you? The web site would have mentioned this to you and open up for questions and answers. Our council people in Irvington do just enough to fool you and just enough to make you think they are doing something for you. Well doing something for us isnt laying off cops and firemen. Lay off some of those mean people in the courts and town hall, we dont need alot of the people you have their. I would rather see them go then our protection.

The other thing is the police. There is so many ways to raise money in this small town, like enforcing so many laws and adding some other ordinances and removing alot of the old nonsense ones. Pass an ordinance that will place fine on anyone who wears their pants down and give them community service. Build sub stations for the police in our community, bring back foot patrol in all areas of irvington, bring back the ticket agents who write tickets for street cleaning.Make sure all the police have the proper equipment needed to patrol our streets. Add more cameras to our areas for crime instead of traffic. Come down hard on business owners who violate city codes and regulations for fire and health. Start fining home owners and banks for letting their properties get out of control and out of hand. Pay someone just to go after them and be strong on making sure this is 100% kept up on getting this fine issued. Create more road blocks for checking peoples credentials to and make sure people are driving safely. They can get a schedule up for the town bus so people can know what time the bus comes and go. Try to work something out with the post office to open another location so they can free up the only one post office in irvington that is overly crowded. make sure the police are not over weight and if they are over weight and cant pass a physical, we need to get them in a position to be of a certain weight and look a certain way.

People, we need to really pay attention to all these issues and more. I have so many other concerns as I am sure do you, and I need you all to post your concerns and issues here so I can address them and expose them to the people. We need to hear from each other. I started this blog to work on making a change in the system which is very broken. I will be posting pictures, videos and many other things to come so please join me and send me videos, pictures and your stories so I can post them on the blog. Lets stick together and make an impact in this town. They dont want me to be in charge because they would be very angry in the town hall. I 'm not saying I want to run for any political office but I know how to manage and I know how to hold people accountable and I know how to communicate. I respect our mayor and his work, but I dont know if I can say the same for the council.

These are the faces of our council and I think we all need to demand more and be better selected with our choices and demand that our council people allow us to have a means of communication with them so we can voice and our voices can be heard. Maybe they are all doing wonderful things and we just dont hear it and know about it, but how can we know about it when theres no one telling us anything.