This is a good time, maybe the best time, to stop "Growth". It is already stopped anyway so what's the big deal? How can we "hurt" those who are already dead? We can help them come back to life if we redirect their interest into something not so boom/bust.
Suppose we were to insist that from now on infrastructure and building be coordinated? Not just on paper, not just with smoke and mirrors, but really!
Let's get the hard numbers that the traffic problem is solved, on paper and on the ground, already achieved, before any more building is approved. Let's get all the water, power and sewer issues ahead of the curve as well. These projects alone will take up the efforts of a great number of our currently unemployed.
It is no accident that gridlock and sales deflation have coincided. Who wants to buy anything in a place where they can't move freely? It is excessive development that has killed real estate sales more than anything else, stop it now!
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Jobs for Sarasota
There are something like 3000 unemployed in Sarasota currently. Usually there are only a very few. Here are some jobs we should open up for them right now:
Neighborhood Police: 1 lieutenant, 4 sergeants, 110 patrolmen. Total 115. Patrol neighborhoods and respond to calls in small vehicles.
Transportation:
Neighborhood (electric) shuttle service: 156 shuttle drivers, 10 mechanics, 26 supervisor/dispatchers, electricians 10. Total 202.
Auto Safety/emission Inspection: 1 director, 1 staff, 1 clerk. Total 3.
Environmental:
Improvements to wastewater plant: 20 planning, 10 supervision, 100 construction. Total 130.
Brownfield cleanup: 1 planning, 10 supervision, 70 labor. Total 81.
Offshore Windfarm: 2 planners, 1 lobbyist. Total 3.
Invasive plant species elimination: 1 botanist, 10 inspectors, 2 enforcement, 10 gardeners. Total 23.
Wild animal control: 1 biologist, 10 trappers, 10 exterminators. Total 21.
Neighborhood clean-up: 1 supervisor, 1 staff, 26 inspectors, 26 crew leaders. 182 labor. Total 236.
Truck Safety/Emission Inspection: 1 director, 1 staff, 10 inspectors. Total 22.
Energy:
Offshore drilling: 2 planners, 1 lobbyist. Total 3.
Water:
Taste and odor improvement. 2 chemists, 1 mechanic, 1 lobbyist. Total 4.
Promotion:
"Buy Your Home In Sarasota Now!" Public relations supervisors 2, agents 63. Total 65.
This is 1000 jobs more or less, a third of what we need. However, as these people work they will spend their earnings in the private economy, which will then also add jobs or fill vacancies.
Neighborhood Police: 1 lieutenant, 4 sergeants, 110 patrolmen. Total 115. Patrol neighborhoods and respond to calls in small vehicles.
Transportation:
Neighborhood (electric) shuttle service: 156 shuttle drivers, 10 mechanics, 26 supervisor/dispatchers, electricians 10. Total 202.
Auto Safety/emission Inspection: 1 director, 1 staff, 1 clerk. Total 3.
Environmental:
Improvements to wastewater plant: 20 planning, 10 supervision, 100 construction. Total 130.
Brownfield cleanup: 1 planning, 10 supervision, 70 labor. Total 81.
Offshore Windfarm: 2 planners, 1 lobbyist. Total 3.
Invasive plant species elimination: 1 botanist, 10 inspectors, 2 enforcement, 10 gardeners. Total 23.
Wild animal control: 1 biologist, 10 trappers, 10 exterminators. Total 21.
Neighborhood clean-up: 1 supervisor, 1 staff, 26 inspectors, 26 crew leaders. 182 labor. Total 236.
Truck Safety/Emission Inspection: 1 director, 1 staff, 10 inspectors. Total 22.
Energy:
Offshore drilling: 2 planners, 1 lobbyist. Total 3.
Water:
Taste and odor improvement. 2 chemists, 1 mechanic, 1 lobbyist. Total 4.
Promotion:
"Buy Your Home In Sarasota Now!" Public relations supervisors 2, agents 63. Total 65.
This is 1000 jobs more or less, a third of what we need. However, as these people work they will spend their earnings in the private economy, which will then also add jobs or fill vacancies.
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