News Release
Who: The Memphis Charter Commission
What: A News Conference
When: Monday, March 12th at 1pm
Where: The Hall of Mayors in City Hall, 125 North Main Street
Why: To announce the address of the Memphis Charter Commission website and upcoming public meetings in March and April
Note: Members of the Commission will gather for lunch at 12 noon, in the 5th floor conference room at City Hall.
This will not be an official meeting and no business will be conducted.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU WANT THE COMMISSION TO ADDRESS?
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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Prostitution in the main library.
An undercover covert operation to catch all drug dealers.
No more letting the mayor be the sole contracting agent for the city.That should be a function of the city council!!!
Dissolve it. . Let the Sheriff's Office handle the crime, and Wharton run the county.
3:59 a.m.
Yeah. Tom Marshall would love that.
Make the mayor's office a hired administrator. Do away with patronage jobs and the wastefull spending by politicos. They would be a paid administrator who would get reviews for effectiveness.
Preserve MLGW. Make it so that Herenton can't take one step in MLGW without security escorting him where ever he goes.
Last week, Herenton gave an exclusive interview to Anna Marie Hartman from Channel 5. He told her if anyone was overbilled due to sabotage at MLGW, he would push to issue them a refund.
HOW CONVENIENT. Just before election, Herenton is going to issue everyone a refund. That is just plain buying votes.
Thad - I hope you are reading this because it deserves its own post.
I love to see the 12 things part of the city charter. Thier would be a big change in Memphis if all live there lives like the 12 things.
How about it charter comission?
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12 Things The Negro Must Do For Himself by Nannie Helen Burroughs
(Circa Early 1900's)
1. The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership. The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls "a good time." The Dr. Kelly Miller said, "The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he Needs." Too true!
2. The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself.
It is the "Divine Plan" that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5:8) to do--Carry his own load--"Take up your bed and walk."
3. The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive.
He must learn to "run his community up"--not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not--some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.
4. The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure.
Knowing what to wear--how to wear it--when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.
5. The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Emotional Affair.
6. The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance.
The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship.
We should initiate an intensive literacy campaign in America, as well as in Africa. Ignorance--satisfied ignorance--is a millstone abut the neck of the race. It is democracy's greatest burden.
Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards.
It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve. Likes alone and not laws can do it.
7. The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His "Color" And To White People's Attitude.
The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun.
God never intended that a man's color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction. It is high time that all races were learning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a workman who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan. He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone "RIGHTS" mad and "DUTY" dumb.
8. The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits.
He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for conduct on the job--such as petty quarrelling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and--too often--liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!
9. He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places.
Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered.
There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration.
Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services.
It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation.
The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.
10. The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People--Not For Negro People, Only.
To do business, he will have to remove all typical "earmarks," business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously--in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.
11. The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had--(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did
Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrew 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel.
A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible "common people." A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never "things apart from the people." They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to "Come on!" Dante stated a fact when he said, "Show the people the light and they will find the way!"
There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the "latter-day leaders." In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there.
"Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet."
The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A's, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the on-going of the race.
12. The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. "Remember."
Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that "I the Lord thy God delivered you"--through human instrumentalities.
The American Negro has had and still has friends--in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race--for their brothers in bonds.
The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to justify the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward--"God is no respector of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is" sure to win out. Get to work! That's the answer to everything that hurts us. We talk too much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.
R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R
In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!
the charter commission should address the 12 step program as listed by thad.
until the negroes in the community learn to take responsibilty for themselves the city will never be able to move forward and prosper. we will continue to have crappy screwlls that turn out uneducated morons who can't function in society, outta control crime and a city that is controlled by lying, stealing, drug abusing corrupt self serving politrickans.
DON'T BE FOOLED PEOPLE!
THIS IS A HOAX/SETUP!
Thad puts up meetings about politics and such, and then fails to show or, they call the cops on you.
Lunch with Thad at KFC, Airways School, Picadilly lunch, 12 Things for the negro to do, all a lousy damn hoax/set up!
How come Lowery, Marshall, Sammons, Holt, Brown, Ford and Peete don't know anything about this Press Conference? Hoaxster!
9:34, 11:04, and 11:10 are the same FAKE people trying to throw a wrench into this SUCCESSFUL blog.
DON'T FALL FOR IT.
The list is a great list for ALL RACES to follow, including WHITE TRASH.
The FREE CHICKEN LUNCH posts are simply made to degrade black people. Recognize it for what it is.
Address Term Limits for all elected positions.
Term limits
Cush Retirement packages
Crime (whatever happened to hiring all those police)
MLGW
1. Increase the number of City Council districts by making them smaller, so that we make the City Council up to twice as large as it it now.
2. Raise Council pay to $30K a year so that it helps replace loss of work income but not so that it becomes a full-time salary itself. This encourages good people to run but helps prevent them making a career of it.
3. Increase the size of City Council staff so that every Council person has their own staff member, isntead of sharing. Not a full office per Council person, just one person.
4. Replace the "strong mayor" system we have with a City Manager position, working for the City Council. The City Council is the boss; the Manager implements what they direct. Police Chief, etc., still report to the Mayor.
5. All "political" appointments by the mayor (division heads, directors, etc.) must get a "thumbs up or thumbs down" OK by the Council. New offices created must be first approved by the Council and must have a "sunset" provision after two years, unless the Council votes otherwise.
6. Sales of any City real property (ie. land and buildings) over, say, $50,000 must have a 2/3 majority approval by the City Council.
7. Election of constitutional officers (Tax Assessor, Sherrif, Court clerks, etc.).
Mike, ;the council pay stands now at 30 thousand plus.....Sorry, no go...
12:09/white person.........you put that crap up here then try and be a funny man trying to get attention to it.
It's sunday idiot.....go watch the races or cornhole the old lady or something.
4:01 is the FAKE Thaddeus and the poster who sets up FAKE lunches. Go cornhole your mother at the races and stop dirtying up this blog with your HATE.
Anon 3:40, already $30K? Jeez, when did I miss that? Alright, leave it there. then.
Term limits is designed for the most part to remove folk from office that can't be defeated in regular elections. If term limits are so great why not have them for ALL elected positons in the USA. No way just term limits for some.
Will you see a push for term limits for the safe county positions that republicans have a lock on. The Clerk positions, etc.
Term limits for every elected officer in the City of Memphis.
If the Charter Commission could set term limits for everybody from the Pope to the County Clerk, I would also be for it. Term limits for everybody!
Term limits are in itself, a bad idea!!!!!
1. Get rid of the 12 year retirement packages. We can't afford them.
2. MLGW surplus beyond a 30 day savings should automatically returned to the rate payers, like the charter says. Not doing so should have some consequences.
3. Eliminate all appointed positions by the mayor beyond the alotted amount established in the charter. Consequences for not doing so.
4. Credit and background checks for all persons running for public office. We seem to have no standards.
5. No more stadiums, colliseums, or forums without a vote from the people.
6. No public employee can get a raise that is larger than the percentage raise given to the police and fire department. employees.
7. No sale of MLGW or using MLGW funds to finance anything.
Now it's time for a "strong form" of government whne there is a black mayor. The current system was okay when you had dummy Hackett and alcoholic Chandler.
They nedd to go and sit their old tired ass out of touch down. What to expect from them?
Dope mommy Janis Fullilove, garbage Lowery, old ass repulican George Brown and don't forget ding bat school board/charter commission member. Lady so dumb, the joke is don't call her name.
Don't you get tired of George Brown speaking and talking about how former Governor Lamar Alexander tap him in the 70's because he was a lawyer and a repulican.
This is one old ass man that's glad and brags about being a token.
George go and sit your old ass down, you are so embarrassing.
4:37... Kiss my black azz....
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