2 thoughts on “YNN: Volunteers clean-up area around Broadway Market”
My read of a 49 second clip of a Broadway Market cleanup this past Friday July 22, 2011:
This clearly just looks like a photo appearance for Councilman Francyzk. According to the YNN report just a dozen or so people took part. The initiative was the FIRST ? Of six area clean up events. The next is scheduled for the old first ward neighborhood this Friday.
This just looks like some pre election time push to try and show that his staff and some volunteers getting a small bit done before the September 13th primary. Am I right ? And if so isn’t that kind of pathetic ? Why wasn’t the council member dressed in a baseball cap, a Tshirt and some jeans out picking some weeds ? Wasn’t the councilman a former city parks employee ? Couldn’t he at least show some involvement, instead of speaking in front of a quiet, locked store in the market, in the shade.
The block right across from the Broadway Market, why were some of the weeds over 2 feet high around those light poles ? Looks like the first time they were cut. Is that good ? Does it seem like the city even has a dedicated plan to cleanup the surrounding area of the market ? Or just coming around pre election time. What real plan is there for the market ?
These segments show some details I Assume is happening, you have to freeze the video:
At the 7 second mark: a guy on a bike riding really fast in front of the doorways without slowing should someone be walking out. The double red of a hat and shirt and the fast motion, give me the suspicions of a drug related run. Which if you watched the neighborhood long enough, there’s been hundreds of thousands of these movements. While on the next corner a guy loiters with no shirt for at least 4 seconds in the clip, to me a possible lookout or drug dealer. There isn’t enough time to tell for sure, however there is a very real gang infrastructure that exists that has worked to destroy massive amounts of the BFA area.
At the 11 second mark: As an elderly resident walks by with a cane, you can see the sidewalk covered with a few pieces of liter. It’s my belief of what I’ve seen from the drug dealers in the area, that this littering is extremely deliberate to make the area as dirty as possible to frustrate those that care, and helps in certain spots cover up the hiding places they store a few bags of drugs on the streets before selling them. I believe this massive disrespect is passed down to the thousands of drug buyers that come into the area.
After 23 years, I view David A Franczyk’s time in office as way too long. I believe in term limits of people serving 4 – 6 years. With a few rare times that a politician is very good, staying in office over 10 years is possible. I don’t think Franczyk has spent enough dedicated time dealing with these issues in his district, rather more time on his job of being Council President. Someone I spoke to recently said that they think the office of Council President should be a separately elected position. I remember last year there seemed to be a feeling a worry in his office, had his council member colleagues not voted to keep him in that position. I believe he has been less focused on the Fillmore districts issues, with the prestige of being Council President.
I remember several years ago, at a dedication to a new built house, I asked him about getting some tree’s trimmed along areas around St Stans, he said I have to call the Mayor, “We just legislate the laws” But here he is with this photo opp in this story, while still many years later trees are over grown at the bases and branches in the area nearby. In talking about the drug dealing in the area, Franczyk says, “That’s what those people want to do over there” To me seemed more sacred about dealing with these issues, but according to the prior St Stans pastor was the “first to call” when they began a multimillion dollar spending spree.
Probably being the only Council Member with bars on his front windows, I wish he would show some more pride in the neighborhood and remove the few remaining bars and rely more on a security system. After over two decades in office, I don’t think he has done enough to try and improve the area.
I hope people can look deeper at this story and see this looks like a bad attempt to try and put a band aid on a neighborhood. People should really be asking how come those weeds were 2 feet tall and not more routinely cut.
IF Aldi’s don’t get built soon, maybe his election slogan will be, nothing gets built in the Fillmore district, we helped Save A Vacant Lot. Fillmore District deserves better : GET RID OF FRANCZYK.
What we’re looking at is an election featuring the man who has overseen the total decline of the neighborhood and a man who’s a stooge for the mayor. What a choice!
My read of a 49 second clip of a Broadway Market cleanup this past Friday July 22, 2011:
This clearly just looks like a photo appearance for Councilman Francyzk. According to the YNN report just a dozen or so people took part. The initiative was the FIRST ? Of six area clean up events. The next is scheduled for the old first ward neighborhood this Friday.
This just looks like some pre election time push to try and show that his staff and some volunteers getting a small bit done before the September 13th primary. Am I right ? And if so isn’t that kind of pathetic ? Why wasn’t the council member dressed in a baseball cap, a Tshirt and some jeans out picking some weeds ? Wasn’t the councilman a former city parks employee ? Couldn’t he at least show some involvement, instead of speaking in front of a quiet, locked store in the market, in the shade.
The block right across from the Broadway Market, why were some of the weeds over 2 feet high around those light poles ? Looks like the first time they were cut. Is that good ? Does it seem like the city even has a dedicated plan to cleanup the surrounding area of the market ? Or just coming around pre election time. What real plan is there for the market ?
These segments show some details I Assume is happening, you have to freeze the video:
At the 7 second mark: a guy on a bike riding really fast in front of the doorways without slowing should someone be walking out. The double red of a hat and shirt and the fast motion, give me the suspicions of a drug related run. Which if you watched the neighborhood long enough, there’s been hundreds of thousands of these movements. While on the next corner a guy loiters with no shirt for at least 4 seconds in the clip, to me a possible lookout or drug dealer. There isn’t enough time to tell for sure, however there is a very real gang infrastructure that exists that has worked to destroy massive amounts of the BFA area.
At the 11 second mark: As an elderly resident walks by with a cane, you can see the sidewalk covered with a few pieces of liter. It’s my belief of what I’ve seen from the drug dealers in the area, that this littering is extremely deliberate to make the area as dirty as possible to frustrate those that care, and helps in certain spots cover up the hiding places they store a few bags of drugs on the streets before selling them. I believe this massive disrespect is passed down to the thousands of drug buyers that come into the area.
After 23 years, I view David A Franczyk’s time in office as way too long. I believe in term limits of people serving 4 – 6 years. With a few rare times that a politician is very good, staying in office over 10 years is possible. I don’t think Franczyk has spent enough dedicated time dealing with these issues in his district, rather more time on his job of being Council President. Someone I spoke to recently said that they think the office of Council President should be a separately elected position. I remember last year there seemed to be a feeling a worry in his office, had his council member colleagues not voted to keep him in that position. I believe he has been less focused on the Fillmore districts issues, with the prestige of being Council President.
I remember several years ago, at a dedication to a new built house, I asked him about getting some tree’s trimmed along areas around St Stans, he said I have to call the Mayor, “We just legislate the laws” But here he is with this photo opp in this story, while still many years later trees are over grown at the bases and branches in the area nearby. In talking about the drug dealing in the area, Franczyk says, “That’s what those people want to do over there” To me seemed more sacred about dealing with these issues, but according to the prior St Stans pastor was the “first to call” when they began a multimillion dollar spending spree.
Probably being the only Council Member with bars on his front windows, I wish he would show some more pride in the neighborhood and remove the few remaining bars and rely more on a security system. After over two decades in office, I don’t think he has done enough to try and improve the area.
I hope people can look deeper at this story and see this looks like a bad attempt to try and put a band aid on a neighborhood. People should really be asking how come those weeds were 2 feet tall and not more routinely cut.
IF Aldi’s don’t get built soon, maybe his election slogan will be, nothing gets built in the Fillmore district, we helped Save A Vacant Lot. Fillmore District deserves better : GET RID OF FRANCZYK.
Ron
STOP POLICE CORRUPTION
What we’re looking at is an election featuring the man who has overseen the total decline of the neighborhood and a man who’s a stooge for the mayor. What a choice!