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Loading ...Mike Bloomberg’s State of the City Address
In his own words, this is how Mike Bloomberg describes his administration’s accomplishments.
Accountability - Mike Bloomberg wants the government to work for you.
“Over the coming months, we’ll go even further. Working with Public Advocate Gotbaum, we will conduct a massive public opinion survey and reach out to 100,000 New Yorkers to get their feedback on how well City government is serving them. We’ll also roll out the mother of all accountability tools, which we call Citywide Performance Reporting. It’s going to put a wealth of data at our fingertips – more than any other American city has ever made available. Fire response times, noise complaints, trees planted by the Parks Department- you name it.”
Leadership - Mike sets out to achieve long lasting solutions for difficult problems.
“That’s exactly why we developed PlaNYC, our strategy for creating the world’s first truly sustainable city. PlaNYC includes 127 proposals – many of them pioneering the latest technology to achieve our goals. This year, we’ll work to increase our use of solar panels to continue greening government buildings and we’ll join forces with the real estate industry to make new construction and old buildings greener.”
Results - Mike Bloomberg is willing to cross ideological barriers to do what’s right.
“That’s why, from the beginning, we’ve pursued major education reforms that put ‘children first.’ That commitment has been the engine driving everything we’ve achieved in the past six years: Raising graduation rates by 20%; increasing reading and math scores by double digits; slashing the bureaucracy; funding schools more generously – and more equitably; rewarding principals and teachers for excellence; closing the shameful achievement gap between ethnicities; and giving all children a chance to fulfill their God-given potential. This is New York City.”
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January 17th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I remember back in 1992, when I first could vote that I chose Perot based upon an public input initiative like this. His idea, which was that on a yearly/periodic basis he’d send out a survey to pretty much everyone in the nation with a list of 100 issues on it. People would choose what’s important to them and that’s what he’d focus on.
It’s absurd that in our modern times we don’t have a real time interface between government bodies and the people. This is not because of a lack of technology, but rather because most politician’s would never be elected if they were subjected to the kind of accountability standards that Mike imposes on himself.
Says something, doesn’t it, that even with such a strict focus on accountability, that he gets re-elected by a landslide.
Now if we can just get this in Washington DC…
January 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Another word that popped out to me in that post GP was “Sustainable City”. I would bold that one right up as “Sustainable Country.” And “Sustainable” must be the operative word on all our moderate centrist issues we propose for the nation.
IMHO Accountability, Leadership and Results ALL actually derive from “Sustainable” and doable/implementable policies/choices/tradeoffs developed, propounded, and pursued.
January 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Think this agenda is one that would be good for the US? I do.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Here’s a good posters maybe - “I’m For What Works, NY Works, Bloomberg ‘08″ and/or “Bloomberg Works for America!
January 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I have been quite interested in Bloomberg entering the race - particularly if Clinton is the Dem nominee.
However, I was disturbed by Bloomberg’s call today for mandatory DNA sampling of anyone arrested in NYC.
With concerns for government infringing on civil liberties with the Patriot Act, etc., such a proposal seems to only head further in that direction,