Fred Sokol - Mission Statement – And Why?

“When I’m elected Mayor in 2007 as an Independent and Visionary Leader – I will benefit Rocky River, replace everyone at city hall, audit city hall books back to 1990, and start new.  I will also bring - Less Tax, Less City Government, More Freedom – to Rocky River.”  My implemented ‘contract with residents’ and ‘reform Rocky River city government’ proposals will do this.”

 

My Campaign To Seek The Office Of Mayor Of Rocky River, Ohio In 2007.  Begins With My Mission Statement! 

 

The Release of My Mission Statement Above Tells Everyone, There Is No Debate, No Question Where I Stand On City Issues.  There Is No Debate No Question What I Will Do Once I Am Elected Mayor Of Rocky River In 2007.   There Is No Debate No Question Why I Want To Serve and Support Rocky River, The Community!  THE RULES HAVE CHANGED TODAY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!  IT IS TIME TO SWEEP OUT CITY HALL.  TIME HAS COME TODAY!  Because God Is My Pilot! 

 

My Mission Statement Spells Out …

 

·      How I plan to bring Less Tax, Less City Government, More Freedom to Rocky River!

 

·     It defines how I will impact and benefit residents, schools and businesses and our community as a whole and how we will decide our city’s future direction, together. | Tax Cuts, | Safer Citizens, | Guaranteed Jobs for Residents, | Protecting Citizen Rights, | Preserving Homes/Neighborhoods, | Town Hall Meetings and more are planned for the community.  My proposals are the first time residents ever heard of benefits like this in Rocky River.

 

·     How I also plan to ‘sweep clean’ Rocky River city hall and make it fully accountable and fully responsive to the taxpayer, yet in a limited role in the community!  Please, if you have a problem with that.  Please let me know. scrdhrt2@cox.net

 

·     My core values that motivate and inspire me also appear in my plan suggesting what kind of Independent and Visionary Leader I will be, and what I will want to see happen in Rocky River for 5 years, for 10 years, and for 20 years into the future! 

 

·     Finally, My Mission Statement, gives a sneak peek into what a Rocky River City Hall with Fred Sokol as Mayor would be like!  (This specific point will be a ‘new page’ on my website www.votesokol.com  shortly - stay tuned.)  It will explain how city hall will openly communicate and respond with residents, schools and business concerns.  How city hall will make decisions, plan for future direction/growth, set priorities and solve problems.  Most importantly how City Hall will create the ‘community atmosphere’ to encourage residents and businesses to come to, and stay in Rocky River.

 

·     Lastly my mission statement mirrors my purpose, my vision and my core values that will play out in the way I serve residents, schools and businesses of Rocky River, when I’m elected Mayor in 2007!

 

WHY! - Fred Sokol - Mission Statement?

 

I consider this moment in Rocky River’s History, a vulnerable and unstable time! 

 

Rocky River fell in 2006 with failed leadership, homes foreclosed, people moving out of Rocky River, even the Rockport Shopping Center has no grocery store for the residents in Rocky River’s Ward 4.  Will another store be leaving Rockport Shopping Center in Rocky River’s Ward 4 soon as well?   U.S. mail delivery was blocked in some areas of our city because parts of Rocky River were buried in snow.  Then there is Cleveland who wants Rocky River’s Waterlines!  Hey, it only gets better!   Once Cleveland controls Rocky River’s waterlines then Cleveland may then annex Rocky River and turn it into a Cleveland neighborhood!   Don’t believe me?  Ask the City of Columbus, Ohio how they got so big! 

 

Yet why worry?  Our leaderless and disconnected elected Rocky River officials seem to ignore these important city issues - while focusing on the insignificant.  For example:

 

·         Rocky River city government elected officials cheerlead about 'squeaky sneakers' and babble about their favorite 'family game' at council.  Aren’t Rocky River council meetings fun?  While for several years the Rocky River Rockport Shopping Center in Ward 4 remains empty of a grocery store.  While Ward 4 residents continue to ask for a grocery store and are denied.  

 

·     One elected Rocky River official managed to attend a luncheon while just a couple days earlier, 14 to 16 inches of snow fell in Rocky River.  Good thing this Rocky River elected official wasn’t walking to this luncheon on a Center Ridge Road sidewalk.  Sidewalks on the main street of Center Ridge Road in Rocky River, were buried in snow and residents walked in the main street compromising their safety that day!  I know, I was one of them.

 

·     It only gets sillier.  That next Tuesday, an elected Rocky River official had the nerve to offer kudos to another Rocky River elected official  at the council meeting, for Rocky River snow removal efforts.  Instead of making grandiose statements for public consumption.  Why didn’t Rocky River city officials all get shovels and go out and clean up Center Ridge Road’s sidewalks?

 

·     While Cleveland stands at Rocky River’s gate, ready to come in and take over all of Rocky River’s Waterlines.  Will the final page of Rocky River’s History be only a notation that reads, “Squeaky Sneakers, Family Game Day, Luncheon Rather than Snow Removal, and Rocky River Is Annexed To the City of Cleveland”?  It Could Be!

 

·     If you want failed leadership, homes foreclosed, people moving out of Rocky River, a closed grocery store, and Cleveland grabbing Rocky River.   Support the elected Rocky River officials ‘whose watch’ all this is happening on. 

 

Yet For Me!

 

“When I’m elected Mayor in 2007 as an Independent and Visionary Leader – I will benefit Rocky River, replace everyone at city hall, audit city hall books back to 1990, and start new.  I will also bring - Less Tax, Less City Government, More Freedom – to Rocky River.”  My implemented ‘contract with residents’ and ‘reform Rocky River city government’ proposals will do this.”