WATER COMMISSION TOURING THEIR FACILITIES ON NOVEMBER 1ST.

Water Commission touring facilities


Monday, November 01, 2010 - Monday, November 01, 2010
Starts: 8:30 AM
Ends: 4:00 PM
The Water Commission will be touring their facilities on November 1st.
Water Department, 45 Montauk Road
Contact Information:
Alisa Hambly
ahambly@cobma.us

JASS STEWART LETS THE RESIDENTS KNOW WHERE HE STANDS

   

      Councilor-at-Large Jass Stewart doesn't hold anything back when it comes to letting the residents know where he stands on the issues. The electronic media lets us cover everything in less than a blink of an eye and today with the growing power of the web its easy to be mislead and read articles about politicians views and quotes when they never even said them. Two-Thumbs up to Jass for his updated site and listening to the residents of Brockton and what they wanted as a means of communicating with our Councilor.

     His site www.JassStewart.com informs the readers where he stands on the issues and who he is backing for candidates that are running next week. So take a look at his site and send him an email and let him know what you think and if you have any idea's about moving Brockton forward, I am sure he would want to hear them too.

CITY COUNCIL JUST KEEPS THE MOMENTUM MOVING

The Brockton City Council will be meeting Monday, October 25th for its bi-monthly meeting. On the nights agenda will be the staffing of eight city firefighters. The firefighters are a mixture of replacing vacant retirement spots and additional firemen that are funded by local and state money. Eight new city firefighters all from Brockton are set to be hired Monday night at the meeting.
     This has been an exciting week in Brockton with Lt.Governor Murray in Town on Thursday to kick off new businesses and existing ones like Montillio's expanding. Bernardi Dealership will create 125 permanent jobs and Neighborhood Health Center recieved an 11.3 million dollar federal grant to add a 4 floor addition onto its urgent care center.
     With all the new business starting up the Council will also be addressing major business concerns with repairs to the downtown parking garage on Main Street and Crescent Street and Brockton 21st Corporation making small business loans available, along with Brockton Redevelopment Authority helping to rehabilitate and buy houses in the city.
    Funds for the projects will become available by revenues from the parking authority meter enforcement and a bond by the federal Community Development Block Grant. BrocktonBeat in the Business section is featuring new businesses that have opened downtown recently and later in the week will feature and article on 2 new businesses that opened on Main Street. The meeting will start at 8pm at Brockton City Hall in the Council Chambers.

Water Department Money, Open Meeting Law Charges Still Swirl

BrocktonPost
BROCKTON— When several potential bidders for a company to complete an independent audit of water and sewer department meter reading and billing procedures meet with city officials Friday for a pre-bid question-and answer session, a review of the department’s so-called Enterprise account is a part of specifications, but not a priority for review.
“If there’s enough money—it depends on the bids--but our primary focus is on the main problem…we’re doing this because something is drastically wrong with our metering and billing system,” said Councilor-at-Large Thomas Brophy. For full story please see The Brockton Post.

PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING FOR WATER AUDIT

     This Friday, October 22, at 11:00 a.m., there will be a briefing session/pre-proposal meeting at Brockton City Hall, 2nd floor, G.A.R. Room, 45 School Street. The meeting is open to the public and will involve questions from the prospective consultants looking to make a bid on the audit. The deadline for submitting a proposal for the audit is November 2, 2010. The entire RFP can be read above by clicking on the RFP for Water Audit tab.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR WATER AUDIT

     The City will be accepting bids for a Comprehensive Independent Audit/Review Services of Policies, Practices and Procedures of the City of Brockton's Water and Sewer Department. Audit Companies have until November 2, 2010 to submit their proposals to Michael Morris the Chief Procurement Officer for Brockton. The request is available online and can be read above by clicking on the RFP for Water Audit.

VOTE SMART & VOTE EASY

BROCKTONBEAT has teamed up with VOTE SMART and VOTE EASY. An organization that started in 1992 and is not affiliated with any political party at all. They receive donations and are a volunteer group that has a database on all the politicians in government and active candidates that are seeking election. Our political section contains a program called VOTE SMART a program where you can obtain who is currently in office in your county from the state level to the federal level and your elected officials voting record, any legislation that they might of authored, biographical and contact information, public statements, issue positions, interest group ratings and campaign contributions(follow the money and follow the votes). VOTE SMART will enable you to obtain records about current politicians and candidates and VOTE EASY is a site that will allow you to match your political issues and beliefs with those who believe the same as you, in effect its a one stop place for obtaining information that is public in state and federal records all in one place. This is a non-biased and non-political affiliated organization for you to make up your own mind based on the candidate and politicians record. Both of these programs are available on our political section and are link on the right side, please use them to become informed of the candidates and our current politicians so you can make the best informed decision with the facts and not the ads that attack the candidates at every corner. If you want to see how State Representative Canavan voted, just type in our zip code or Canavan and her name will come up. Click on her name and you will be able to see her voting record and any legislation she might of authored, along with political contributors and other important information for you to make decisions for our November elections.