According to his latest email, looking for volunteers, and even more cash donations, Pawlowski states:
"We've Come a Long Way Since I Came Into Office
• Taking our budget out of the red
• Rebuilding our police department, and
• Focusing on bringing new business and more
jobs into our city"
• Well he is right, we have come a long way, but in the wrong direction.
• How he can continue to proclaim that the budget is out of the red, and declare an ever growing surplus in the face of factual reporting by The Morning Call is beyond understanding. We have a large deficit, and a tremendous debt load from borrowing. We are not out of the red in an operational, cash flow sense, or any other sense.
• Our police department is being rebuilt at a snail's pace, and perhaps in the wrong direction. His latest call for volunteers to man the monitors for the cameras is a shining example. Crime spreading to all areas of the city, Graffiti, garbage in the streets, are all evidence of a lack of police presence. When you call to report a crime, all you get is a report number for your insurance company, no effort to investigate or solve the crime.
• bringing new business int0 the city has not been a success, judging by the failures, as well as the old established businesses he has chased away from the City. He counts jobs moved from one side of the city to another as new jobs (PennDOT, for example) while not counting the lost jobs. A strong community is needed to support business and industry. He has neglected the community in favor of business, giving away our money and property to his friends and political supporters. Even then, they have a tendency to leave town when the money trough runs dry (Johhny Manỹanas, for example). Downtown is arguably worse now then when he took office, or when he took over as Community and Economic Development director.
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Dick, you stopped by an OTNW meeting the other night and I was thoroughly unimpressed by ANY of your solutions. You were clear that you would invest in our communities, but vague about how. You kept coming back to our parking problem and your solutions which were again unclear. You waffled when asked a direct question. When asked to qualify your answer as a yes or no your reply was, "well, yes and no". You want to further build our police force that Ed has already markedly increased, (our murder rate is halved and crime is down). I'm wondering where you're going to find the money for all the extra officers. Although I do agree with you that Ed has not invested enough in the communities surrounding the business distict I don't know that you would do any better. The revitalization of a city center is a frustrating and ongoing process with its own set of successes and failures. It's a dilemma shared by many urban centers nationwide. I'm not convinced that you have a handle on the complexities and politics of this city's financial dynamics. Sorry, Dick, that's just how I see it. Sam Crothers
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