As president of the Greeley Neighborhood Community Development Corporation Inc. I cannot support the top down, government contorted, costly, Home Owners Association style, Neighborhood Councils proposal recommended by the ex- bureaucrats and ex-elected officials of the LGSC on this November’s ballot.
Since the Greeley (Neighborhood) Area Plan was completed, approved and included in the B-SB Master Plan in 2011 The GNCDCInc. has been working to try and get A Holistic Neighborhood Community Improvement Program consisting of a Greater B-SB Community Council to advise the Council of Commissioners and a Neighborhood Community Improvement Organization to work with our local government to improve our neighborhood according to the Greeley Neighborhood (community) Plan.
Our holistic plan as proposed in B-SB Council Bill – Ordinance 2014-8 would be a no additional cost to the taxpayer program, called for the B-SB Commissioner to function as neighborhood Community Council Coordinators and be the instigators, coordinators and facilitators for neighborhood and greater community improvement like they should be doing anyway. Which costs the taxpayer absolutely no more. This was beginning to happen in 2012-14 before the implementation of 03.03 (e) was killed by the then administration, for fear it would be a checks and balance.
4) A Holistic Community Councils Proposal:
Submitted to and rejected by;
Attn. B-SB Local Government Study Commission
There is no systematic channel established in our local government structure for The People (the Public) to; formulate, have approved, find funding and have implemented consensual Neighborhood Improvement Projects
Therefore;
We submit the following suggested amendments to the B-SB City-County Charter;
– There shall be added and deleted to the clause;
3.03 (e) to authorize community councils to advise the Council of Commissioners;
To read; There shall be to authorize authorized a Greater Butte-Silver Bow Community Council-s- to advise the Council of Commissioners;
– The Greater Butte-Silver Bow Community Council to consist of one delegate from each Commissioner District
– There shall be an annual District Neighborhood Community Improvement Councils Assembly of the participants in the various Neighborhood Community Improvement Councils within a Commissioner District to select a District Delegate to the Greater Butte-Silver Bow Community Council
– The Greater Butte-Silver Bow Community Council shall be responsible for the nomination and recommendation of termination of the B-SB City-County Manager to be appointed and contracted by the B-SB Council of Commissioners, and the initiation of recall petitions for elected officials
– There shall be various Neighborhood Community Improvement Councils within each Commissioner District, instigated and coordinated, in a purely advisory capacity, by the respective Council of Commissioner of the district
– The formation and function of Neighborhood Community Improvement Councils shall be in accordance with the original proposed Butte-Silver Bow Council Bill-Ordinance 14-8
– The Neighborhood Community Improvement Councils shall be responsible to instigate and facilitate the formulation, approval, funding and implementation of Neighborhood Improvement Projects through their District’s Commissioner
– Neighborhood Improvement Projects to include but not limited to Public; FINANCE, INFRASTRUCTURE, SAFETY, ENRICHMENT, ENHANCEMENT, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC AND LAND USE, HEALTH AND SANITATION, AND/OR OTHER SERVICES
Respectfully submitted for your consideration and action
R. Edward Banderob, President GNCDCInc. Participant Concerned Citizen Cluster