Today is RESOLUTIONS FOR PLAINFIELD Day.
How about instead of making a resolution for YOURSELF for the New Year, which you know will be broken by the end of January (if not sooner), you propose a RESOLUTION FOR PLAINFIELD TO MAKE for the New Year? Something that could be done (or stop being done) that would benefit Plainfield in 2010.
Could be something for the Council to do. Or the Mayor or administration. Or the school district. Or the business community. Or some other organization that could positively impact the community.
Be creative. Be ingenious. Be outrageous. But above all, be posting your comment today.
There will be a $10 gift certificate for Dairy Queen awarded for the most intriguing RESOLUTION FOR PLAINFIELD (my pick). You may make your comments anonymous or sign them, but in order to collect the DQ award, you will need to make yourself known to me somehow with a moniker of some kind. I will post the winning items on New Year's Day, after which the winner can contact me by email (I'll put a link up then).
Go!
-- Dan Damon [follow]
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Focus on economic development. Make Plainfield a destination by bringing in diverse businesses.
Have a marketing plan for Plainfield.
Find out what has happened to the plans for the E. 9th and Park Avenue Peninsula.
Help beautify the Park Avenue Corridor
Re-take the Train Station project, this time, hopefully, with help
Get the Mayor to activate the Advisory Commission on Hispanic Affairs by appointing experienced, effective community leaders who are committed to working together in addressing the many challenges confronted by our Hispanic neighbors.
Let the Council resolve to accept no walk-on items from the administration. this would make the administration pay more attention to getting its work done in a timely manner.
How about this? The mayor gives up that big gas guzzling tank of hers and starts driving a sensible car like a hybrid or a Mini Cooper or something. What better way to honor her boss Green than by driving "green?"
Development, development, development! If things are ever going to get better, we need development. Big development, small development, east end, west end, you name it. Just make sure they are real developers and they are free to use their own attorneys (and don't have to use Wiener Lesniak as a condition of getting into Plainfield).
We at the Plainfield Area YMCA hope for funding to teach every child in the city to swim, to create separate housing for homeless women and children sleeping on cots in our dorm, and to continue to train and encourage loving parents who take in foster children - infants to high school seniors - whose families are in crisis. If your resolution is to get fit and trim, we do that, too. And good luck Annie.
Resolve: Become an active and engage member of the community.
We need solution seekers not just problem finders!
Get in the game or go HOME!
Disband the PMUA. No real progress in fixing it occurred in 2009. Now we are facing another possible rate hike even if the $400,000 Connolly debt is collected. Then there was the junket of it overcompensated high-ranking staff to the League of Municipalities convention in Atlantic City. They still haven't got the message, or they are still refusing to listen to it. It is time for them to go.
My resolution is to continue my "good morning," "hello, how are you?" campaign on the streets of Plainfield. I'm a pedestrian who walks to the train station five days a week. I've found in this town that when you say hello to a person on the street, they'll reply. As time goes by, folks will go out of their way to say hello first. The next thing you know, folks are greeting you like an old friend.
Perhaps it sounds a bit corny. But, to me, it shows how friendly Plainfield actually is -- folks from all walks of life, all nationalities ... just exchanging pleasantries as they pass on the street. Over the past few years, I've helped an immigrant learn new words in English in our brief talks -- everyday he'd point at something and ask how to say it.
It's something small, I know. But greeting people and saying a simple hello make the town all that much better. You get to know folks you might not ever get to know and you're both the better for it ... as is the town.
My resolution is to continue doing this daily. I believe it's a good thing indeed.
Resolution for Plainfield: Not only enforcing the zoning laws for basic quality of life issues but issuing fines to bring in much needed income into city coffers as well as upgrade the way the city looks. Also, UTILIZING the power the city has with zoning to start cleaning up problems in the city. It's called spot zoning and when worded properly you would be amazed at how it can work and pass the muster for constitutionality. Trust me, I am all about less government and less government involvement but if the property owners in this city won't clean up and make this city nicer force it down their throats with $ signs flashing in front of them.
Hey, Dan,
I really like Jackie's resolution! I, too, enjoy walking the streets of Plainfield. Granted, I am usually knocking on doors asking folks to come out to vote (lol!), but this activity has resulted in a much friendlier me--and folks here are so great! Here's to a friendlier, more gracious, and more compassionate Plainfield in 2010!!
Best,
Rebecca
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