More in the stream of information coming from the City of Punta Gorda

If you are receiving this for the first time; this is the city of Punta Gorda weekly report, it is an account of all the activities that have occurred during the past weekand compiled by the city manager. Currently my mailing is reaching well over 1000 residents.If you are already receiving this from one of my colleagues or if you just don’t want to receive it just email me back.

Friends,

You have no doubt been reading about President Elect Obama’s financial insentive plan which may fund state and local capital construction projects. In preperation of that possibility we have comprised and are submitting a list of 9 projects totalling $74.5M. I have attached the that list along with the Weekly Report for your information.

Don’t forget the grand opening celebration of the Event Center on Saturday from 11AM – 1:30.

By the way, the reason that I show you this is to present an example of a community that makes a consistent effort to communicate with its citizens - by both its elected officials and its senior staff. Punta Gorda is not unique - it is more and more an example of part of the norm. It's Lake Worth that is out of sync.

If you click on the title of this post, you will be taken to the memo from their City Manager which gives a report of the week's activities. It's funny, but if you read the series of these memos, you end up knowing much more about Punta Gorda than anyone knows about what happened in Lake Worth over the past weeks.

Hmmmmm.

And what are we doing to "front load" our public works projects in order to stimulate the local economy and keep people employed?