ROCKY RIVER: FIVE (5) WARDS AND FIVE (5) WARD
COUNCIL MEMBERS!
To: Rocky River
City School District, Rocky River City
Government, Rocky River Business Community and
Fellow Residents,
As Rocky River city government continues to ‘appoint elected
officials’, leaving residents disconnected. While telling us
there are “no” good old boys in Rocky River city government.
I WILL SEEK TO ‘REFORM AND CONNECT’ ROCKY RIVER CITY GOVERNMENT
‘TOTALLY TO THE FOLKS.’ HOW?
1.
I will seek to establish a Rocky River ‘council representation’
with a ‘new’ five (5) wards and five (5) ward council member
system. To represent and serve the residents of Rocky River!
How?
2.
Add an additional ward and ward council member onto the now four
(4) ward and four (4) ward council members. Then disband the
original three (3) council-at-large.
(Click here and see my proposal as a
charter addition.)
WHY
DO WE SHRINK ROCKY RIVER CITY COUNCIL FROM (4) WARDS AND SEVEN
(7) COUNCIL MEMBERS – TO FIVE (5) WARDS AND FIVE (5) WARD
COUNCIL MEMBERS?
1.
FOR BETTER RESIDENT REPRESENTATION! More wards and ward council
members better the representation ‘per ward’.
2.
SAVE ROCKY RIVER TAXPAYERS MONEY! Taxpayers will pay for five
(5) Rocky River council members – instead of the now seven (7)
Rocky River council members.
3.
Currently, Rocky River has four (4) wards and four (4) ward
council members and an additional three (3) council-at–large
members.
4.
Now, each ‘ward council member’ represents approximately 5250
residents apiece ‘per ward’. While each ward council-at-large
member represents our entire city of approximately 21,000
residents.
5.
This week a Rocky River city government official commented about
the importance of council-at-large members who represent the
entire city of Rocky River.
I
disagree.
A council member should never have to represent an entire city
of approximately 21,000 residents. How can any council member
represent and meet all those resident’s needs?
6.
Furthermore in theory, four (4) wards and four (4) ward council
members are already representing the needs of the approximate
21,000 residents in Rocky River.
7.
Why do we need another layer of council-at-large members to do
the job that the four (4) wards and four (4) ward council
members are already doing?
8.
In ‘private business’ overlapping services is sometimes called
“duplication of services” and ‘a waste of money’ and would never
be tolerated! Why is it tolerated in Rocky River City
Government?
AS A ‘NON-ATTORNEY’ MY ‘CHARTER ADDITION PROPOSAL’ TO ESTABLISH
FIVE (5) WARDS AND FIVE (5) WARD COUNCIL MEMBERS IN ROCKY RIVER
- CALLS FOR:
1.
TO ‘ADD’ AN ADDITIONAL WARD AND WARD COUNCIL MEMBER POSITION.
Then disband the current three (3) council-at-large member
positions.
2.
ESTABLISH FIVE (5) WARDS AND FIVE (5) WARD COUNCIL MEMBERS
REPRESENTING ROCKY RIVER RESIDENTS.
3.
EACH OF THE FIVE (5) WARD COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM THE FIVE (5)
WARDS SHOULD REPRESENT APPROXIMATELY 4200 RESIDENTS APIECE ‘PER
WARD’. That’s a reduction of approximately 1050 residents to be
represented by each of the five (5) ward council members ‘per
ward’. From the four (4) wards that currently represent
approximately 5250 residents apiece ‘per ward’.
4.
That means more representation from each of the five (5) ward
council members.
5.
SAVE TAXPAYERS MONEY!
By cutting out three (3) council-at-large members – and adding
only an additional ward council member. Taxpayers will be
saving money by not paying two council members that are
excluded.
-
THERE
WILL BE NO COUNCIL-AT-LARGE MEMBERS!
IN CLOSING
‘Reform Rocky River’. ‘Embrace the
New and Abandon the Old.’
You decide!
Fred I. Sokol, Resident – Rocky River, Ohio
www.rockyriverfred.com
+
scrdhrt2@cox.net + 440-521-5452
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