Mayor Thanks Emergency Action Partnership, Demands More
“Today marks 100 days since my administration delivered the Safe Streets Legislative Package to Salisbury City Council President Louise Smith. Over this time I can point to citizens and neighborhood leaders who have asked Mrs. Smith to put this legislation on a council work session. She has failed to do so. I have been asked to compromise on some points of the legislation, yet that is not my job. It is the job of the city council, in a work session, to take up these points. Yet, Mrs. Smith has failed to move the legislation forward. Mrs. Smith started her own committee, the Emergency Action Partnership, separate from our Crime Task Force and Safe Streets Coalition; two groups that have never seen Mrs. Smith in attendance at meetings. She did so with SAPOA members leading her group. Naturally, the partnership makes no mention of slum and blight or the cost the citizens of Salisbury pay, over and over, for servicing blighted properties. Recently, in Princeton Homes, our Neighborhood Services code enforcement officers found 606 code violations. Those violations, and their continued cost to the taxpayers, would be addressed if Safe Streets was passed. Though the city is ready to accept ideas from Mrs. Smith’s SAPOA led action committee, my administration will not shy away from the commitment’s made to the citizens in the Safe Streets Legislative Package. Addressing slum and blight, holding slum properties accountable, and ending legal uses of non-conforming structures will change Salisbury for the better. I am on the side of making Salisbury a safer place, not tinkering around the edges and hoping nobody notices code violations at properties. The council was asked to pass the legislative package by Thanksgiving. Again, Mrs. Smith’s council is not on target to get any of this done. That being said I will not let citizens forget, especially in the spring 2011 election, who supported the Safe Streets plan, and who did not. I encourage residents of Salisbury to contact Mrs. Smith and demand a public hearing on my 2010 Safe Streets Legislative Package”
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Ireton should stop his incessant grandstanding and periodic outbursts like that on Monday night on PAC 14 and begin discussing matters with SAPOA, not just his core supporters. He is like Obama in portraying SAPOA as the "enemy" and trying to belittle them all the time.
ReplyDeleteHow many of the 606 code violations have anything to do with crime or "safe streets"? Some are probably for things like trash (often just a small piece of paper) on the grass or street or a little peeling paint. The only reason its costing the taxpayers is because Ireton is making the city personnel process those items that are not causing any crime. Meanwhile the police remain undermanned and underpaid.
Y'all are an embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure how Mayor Irritating could possibily know what was discussed in the EAP meetings or who was there unless he was in attendance.
It is also entertaing that he is now talking compromise, but...
"it's not his job". It's that attitude that has gotten you in this position.
You could sneeze and make up a violation so that claim is pure junk.
My neighbor got a "code" violation, but that didn't hinder the drug dealer on the corner. So my street wasn't safer but my neighbor got poorer and the city got richer!
Handing out tickets for parking on your own lawn isn't going to stop the crime. Idiot.
If you want to reduce crime and make the streets safe - you MUST start exactly where the Mayor is telling you where the violations are in extremely high numbers!
ReplyDeleteIf you clean up your neighborhoods, including TRASH, GRASS and unkept property, you'll be on the way!
It all starts here! Allow properties to be in bad shape and neighborhoods to be dirty, you're doing nothing more than INVITING crime to that neighborhood!
For those of you who can't see this, you're blind and you know NOTHING about crime trends and how to be PROACTIVE. You'd rather the municipalities and their police departments be in the position of REACTING to everything instead of trying to PREVENT it in the first place!
Look where that's gotten you!
Oh my gosh, 10:43 drank a BIG glass of the Ireton koolaid.
ReplyDeleteNow just because your neighbor is a slob that's going create a pathway for the hoe's and gangs to beat a path to your neighborhood.
Ridiculous. They must have one of those online psycho-babble degrees.
2:43 - Talk to any police officer who has had the proper training in crime "prevention" and they will tell you what needs to happen to "prevent" crime. It starts in the streets and neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteAs they go downhill, so does the safety and up goes the crime statistics!
We're not talking about a single residence, but you obviously did not read the entire post - no surprise there.
Learn to read and do your own research instead of wearing Louise's blinders!
2:43, spoken like a true slumlord.
ReplyDeleteNow Ireton is putting his tantrums in writing...nice.
ReplyDelete3:39 & 5:02 , sorry to burst your bubble but no I am not a slum lord and can read. I do not apologize for not agreeing with your un-factual opinion.
ReplyDeleteBut I also know for fact you have no idea what you are talking about.
Mowing my lawn and having the street sweeper guy pass by is not going to lower crime. And you are an idiot to think it will.
The drug dealers on the corner are uneffected by my spectatular lawn care and clean street.
Next you know, we can blame the crime on the trash that the daily times clutters the city with every wednesday. Make the stop! Their trash is making it more inviting for the hoe's and gangs!
*:14 - I have the training to know exactly what I'm talking about.
ReplyDeleteIt starts at streets and neighborhood level! Period!
YOU Sir, are the idiot and part of the problem!
11:46, No, um, I am not part of the problem. My lawn is cut and there is no trash. We even mow the lawn of the abandoned property 3 doors down. And the drug dealer still shows up to the corner.
ReplyDeleteYOU are the IDIOT and THE PROBLEM. All you "know it alls" should be asking the citizens living in the middle of it what the problem is, instead of telling us what CRAP you think the problem is.
It is way more important that you and Mayor Irritating be right, than actually listen to others to solve the problem.
So you go be right, and we "know nothings" will solve the problem for ya, because what you are doing isnt working.