Quality of Life August E-Newsletter

Quality of Life Initiative Downtown Clean-Up Kick-Off

Saturday, August 25th from 12-2PM, Quality of Life Initiative will kick off the Citywide Adopt-A-Block Program with a Downtown Clean Up of the area on Main between Broadway and Ward streets. Information will be provided about the program and how to sign up going forward. School Based Youth Services and the Youth Services Bureau will be conducting the clean-up. Please contact me for any more details regarding the kick off clean up or the Adopt-A-Block program.

The Paterson Plan

After having watched and read about a weekend involving 3 murders, one taking the life of a 17 year old kid, I was very distraught and angry over the senseless loss of life.  I was fortunately lifted back up with some happiness as I read the stories and saw all the pictures on Facebook of everyone that came out in support of National Night Out.  (Wish I could have been there, about to be on my way back from Boston now.  YouthBuild Conference)  

As well, I learned from a student that the young people will also be organizing a peace rally next Tuesday in order to continue protesting the violence and to proclaim the senseless killing as unacceptable under all circumstances..

These events have inspired me to release this draft of The Paterson Plan.  The Paterson Plan is a framework of the core strategy that I will be proposing to the Quality of Life Initiative later this afternoon.  This plan will then hopefully be used at the Town Hall Meeting that I intend to set a date for soon.  If it appears to be a very broad plan, that is intentional.  The five core components of the plan are specific enough to stress the priority of the main problems that must be corrected yet broad enough that every symptom of the main problems can be categorized under the umbrella of each component.  There are many other drafted details under each core component however I would like to wait before releasing those details as we refine them a bit within the committee.

Please provide me with any feedback, criticism, praise, and ways to improve so that I can best present this to the committee.