Both the Buffalo News and the LUSJ recently reported that Mayor Tucker has chosen the Director of Planning and Community Development.
North Tonawanda’s economic development coordinator was announced Wednesday as Lockport’s new director of planning and development.
R. Charles Bell was appointed by Mayor Michael W. Tucker to the new position, part of the city’s restructuring that places most departments under one of four major directors.
Bell, 35, signed a five-year contract that starts his pay at $72,000 a year. The contract says subsequent raises are up to the mayor and, if granted, will be at least 3 percent per year.
The Common Council didn’t get to vote on the appointment or the contract terms, but it did vote, 4-2, to grant Bell a waiver of the city’s residency requirement. Bell lives in Getzville...
...Bell said he applied for the Lockport job because “I think it’s a community with a ton of potential. . . . You’ve already got a strong business community. I’m impressed with the direction city government is taking with the restructuring and making development more of a priority.”...Best of luck to Bell. One of the benefits of hiring someone local is the way the state works certain grant application. Seniority (and track record) of those on the grant application is taken into account. Bell's experience here is a big plus. Just let's hope that the city (Mayor) makes the most out of this new position in regards to laying out a path to future growth and following it.
11 comments:
Love it how Tucker is once again bending the city rules (as he does when he wants) to allow him not to move into the city. Just as he allowed his other pet supervisor to take 5 years before he moved in to town.
Why bother having the rule?
Vote him out of office!
him bending a bending the rules are the only way they get stuff done in Lockport
He has his puppets like Pasceri that go along with everything he wants. He uses laws and rules for people he doesnt like but changes them when its convienant for what he wants.
Little George told Tuck to hire this NT guy. The Mayor had no choice--Maziarz would not pay for any campaign mailers unless Tuck hired the outsider. That is how things get done in Lockport--quit yer complainin
if u think that it's only tucker that has to bend to what the party wants, think again. it's how it gets done everywhere fromthe bottom to the top
Make sure you vote Shrader back in so Tucker has another one of his yes men back in place.
well maybe we could get someone who is against group home workers being murdered. that would be nice
-The resolution, sponsored by Pasceri, was similar to one that the County Legislature passed March 1. It demanded that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo fire Carrion because of an alleged lack of reform in youth detention programs following the June 2009 murder of Renee
C. Greco, a youth counselor, in a Lockport group home.
Smith and Chapman said they weren’t given enough opportunity to read the resolution and determine if the charges were factual.-
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/lockport/article369202.ece
yes because Mr. Chapman and Mr. Smith are all about supporting murders against group home workers....pleeeeease!
well, maybe they should be against the further employment of the head of the orginization who set up the situation where one woman was in charge of a group home that contained violent young adults
but wait, they need more eeevviiddeenncceee!
if u ain't part of the solution, u are part of the problem
I think I'm VERY late to this party, but don't these two guys read the paper?
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