Quality of life
In El Paso the citizens are evidently not smart enough to decide what they need. That is done for us by city staff and city council.
Here is a refreshing example of what other communities do. This community sends out 10,000 surveys each year (out of a population of about 680,000 voters). They ask how satisfied the respondent is with:
- Economic Opportunities
- Education System
- Transportation System
- Local Government Utilities
- Presence of Local Government in Our Lives
- Environmental and Natural Resources
- Government Services
- Growth Management
- Racial, Religious and Ethnic Tolerance
- Security
- Healthcare
- Non-government Social Services
- Entertainment
- Neighborhood and Family Support
- Public Parks and Recreation
- Affordable Housing
- Historic Preservation
- The Arts
It’s called a report card. The local governments use it to focus on what they should be doing to help improve the community. We don’t need this in El Paso. The cabal running the city knows what to do for their own enjoyment.
Actually the city did do some of this when promoting the bond issues. Their idea was to convince us that they wanted our input. What they got was a survey box that was stuffed by one or more people and/or organizations. At some point the city knew the results were rigged. El Paso Inc. reported the story here. Did city staff know that over 500 of the responses were in the handwriting of one or two individuals? How could they not know? They went ahead and used the rigged results to show us what the “people wanted”.
Then we have the Bond Oversight Advisory Committee that the city created to give us the illusion that we would have a say in the administration of the bond funds.
We deserve better
Brutus
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