Existential Propositions

“Some things just fall in your lap just when you need them”

Mercury News 3/4/13

Who says Pottstown needs help with grants, promotion, and a wider audience?  Apparently, that was the conclusion of the joint School District/Borough get together last week.

The Mercury reported that the Pottstown Metropolitan Regional Planning Committee heard about an opportunity being developed over the last year with the help of the Pottstown Health and Wellness Foundation to work together, with other municipalities, to cut costs and market Pottstown to a broader region.  And, an opportunity to do just that for free for the first year has been presented.

This is how it would work, in a nutshell:

The more municipalities that participate, the lower future costs will be, for example:  the cost to Pottstown taxpayers would never exceed $5,000 per year.  What’s NOT to love about this???

Recreational potential abounds here, (that’s one of our strong suits), with some fine tuning and promotion Pottstown could become a recreation destination, not to mention the boost it would give to our merchants and other businesses – it could very likely be a catalyst for attracting NEW endeavors to the downtown.  That’s the beauty of this deal that can be had for an eventual annual sum of $5,000 a year, if other municipalities get on board too.  Beats heck out of $30,000 in one fell swoop to RV& B for political favors, (from which we’ve seen no benefit), to date.

Opportunity knocks.  Council Prez, Steve Toroney, dropped this little optimistic morsel into your morning coffee…

“Pottstown Borough Council President Steve Toroney, who said he favors the idea personally, said it might be a “hard sell” to borough council because “we already have a full-time parks and recreation director and a tax dedicated to parks and recreation.”

Maybe he, (and council), don’t feel worthy, but believe it – WE DO – Pottstown IS worthy…

So, Council @@@ REPEAT AFTER ME:

“We deserve good things, (and so does Pottstown). We are entitled to our share of happiness, (preachin’ to the choir).  We refuse to beat ourselves up, (or the people of Pottstown). I am an attractive person, (if I really wanna be). I am fun to be with, (eh, 4 outta 5 ain’t bad ).”  

It worked for Stuart Smalley AND it can work for you too…

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If cost is a concern for council then we suggest that they put an immediate halt to the use of tax money to allow Mark Flanders to surround himself with his posse at public meetings.  Nothing about that is a benefit to the people of Pottstown who pay their salaries, in fact, it’s akin to eating filet mignon in front of a starving man and it’s a practice that needs to stop now, or as Save Pottstown suggests, they can start holding meetings at the corner of Washington and Chestnut Sts.

 Police Posse Out in Force – Save Pottstown !!!

If, as Council Prez Steve Toroney suggests, (after gazing into his crystal ball), that council’s lame excuse will be: ‘we already have a Parks and Recreation Director,’ the question then becomes:  have any of you actually spent any time with Eileen “Boorish” Schlegel lately?  A recent encounter with Eileen left me thinking if I’d tangoed with a porcupine instead it would have been a far superior experience…

“Rudeness (also called impudence or effrontery) is a display of disrespect by not complying with the social “laws” or etiquette of a group or culture. These laws have been established as the essential boundaries of normally accepted behavior. To be unable or unwilling to align one’s behavior with these laws known to the general population of what is socially acceptable is to be rude.”  

Eileen doesn’t get paid to treat any taxpayer in Pottstown with her own special brand of impudent snobbery, and if council is thinking she’s their pick to promote Pottstown to outsiders, (instead of a regional person),

then bring on the dancing bears – we’d absolutely get more bang for the buck and have way more fun too.

Somebody, QUICK – give that woman a 24″ x 24″ framed copy of the NEW Borough Mission and Core Values to hang on her office wall, right next to the mirror…

and repeat after me, “I’m going to be teriffic today! And I’m gonna help people! Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me!”

“Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts.  And, I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.”

Cindy Sherman