This morning's post is done by 'GWS44'.
Today's Glenwood Springs Post Independent announces a deadline of this coming Friday (2 days from now), for 'vacancy' seats on the new Tourism Promotion Board that was just sat last fall.
These three seats have always had a short term in order to work the new board into the designated seating cycles. 'smalltown7' is just not buying the obvious today in the fact that the PI has not announced this publically so the folks could truly be informed.
When City Council chose to heavily seed the new board with the current marketing vendor's Board of Directors last Fall, the public noticed. One of those seeds is Ken Murphy. He sits both Chamber Board of Directors and the new Tourism Board. Ken also was sitting the Financial Advisory Board that has a direct tie to the tourism grant fund requests. Ken is a highly qualified person and well liked in the community.
smalltown7 points out again that this is not a popularity contest and we do not care for the performance of our City Council's oversight.
It is a true conflict of interest for the marketing vendor board of directors to be seating the Tourism Board.
The people's request for a city handled tourism board has seen nothing but purposefully driven friction from the tourism sector that is now having to fund their private businesses themselves and who support giving no public transparency.
Nobody will blink today seeing this from the PI. It's also possible they still just remain asleep at the wheel and missed the signficance of these seats upcoming.
We hope our resident seat in Scott has not already reached a point of being so fed-up with little to no true support (or) is watching the current harm being done to still yet another local family, that he decides this is not worth it and bails. If he does, we hope John Duven steps up now that he has not turned in a petition to take the council seat held by Dave Sturges.
We call out today to 81601 avatars in commentary and ask you to pull in any tourism sector replacement that meets the requirements and at the very least replace Ken Murphy. Steve Beckley needs to move on as well. From the sound of the tourism feedback, his position of trying to force the old status quo that has kept both the rift in the community and our lodging revenues in the tank is just not right for 81601. 'necky', 'remedy'--you both could make this change happen because of how you are placed in the community.
There are terrific replacements on council in Leahy and Gamba. They'll do a great job.
Support Edmonds for Arensman's seat and urge him into the position of Mayor. smalltown could support Arensman if he retains his seat but feels it's time for a clean sweep.
Very disappointing that Dave Sturges has no competition unless what could be a well-supported write-in steps up. The one thing we know historically with Dave is that once he can finally be made to move, he usually follows through. His handling of the chamber situation and his allowing the lack of support to hold the tourism board's positions is deeply concerning.
Applications for the Tourism Board seats are due by this Friday.
Good luck and our thanks, to any qualified individual stepping up.
Showing posts with label tourism promotion glenwood springs. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Current Watch: "Tourism Marketing Contract 2012 and City of Glenwood Springs City Council Oversight"
Instead of continuing to answer individual emails with the right links, here again are the links to access the minutes archives, the new video library, the board meeting dates and the email address to set yourselves up to go in and view the tourism board minutes.
We are not certain, but do believe if you will just click on the links from this post, they will show as safeplace under #8 IP address.
GWS44 here, posting these links to you. And also bringing an interesting detail that should be watched on the upcoming 2/3/11 council meeting.
Today's PI, plus from the looks of things at least 2+ dozen search optimized newspapers and viral sites all over the country, has the article on Randi Lowenthal's new idea.
Avatars in comments on safe sites are commenting that they feel council should fund Randi and the Roaring Fork Resource Center's new project, with the 'cushion' Lindsay spoke of along about this time last year when the chamber was promoting themselves for the upcoming 2011 contract award.
This is a cushion that 81601 has heard about for a lot of years. Usually during the friction moments each year when the chamber is on the hot seat. Yet, it never shows up. Not even when grant funds are hit because there is no money for events they say are related to tourism. Like last year.
This year, smalltown7 calls out, here on SafePlace to our current Glenwood Springs City Council, for a reveal of that cushion. And then, a request for the decision on pulling that cushion over into promotion of small businesses in 81601 that are definitely going to be pulling in visitors and revenues into town under Randi Lowenthal's 'Economic Gardening' project.
The email address below is to the head city clerk who handles putting people on emailing lists for current council packets. This is also where you set up to come in during City Hall hours to view the Tourism Board minutes. The answer to the question of why Lindsay is still doing the minutes of the Tourism Board, we cannot answer.
We are not certain, but do believe if you will just click on the links from this post, they will show as safeplace under #8 IP address.
http://centralvideolibrary.info/ takes you to the video feed.
http://www.ci.glenwood-springs.co.us/council/agenda.htm takes you to the minutes and agenda archives for a number of years.
http://www.ci.glenwood-springs.co.us/boards/2010_MeetingDates.pdf takes you to the meeting dates of all boards within city control and some county.
GWS44 here, posting these links to you. And also bringing an interesting detail that should be watched on the upcoming 2/3/11 council meeting.
Today's PI, plus from the looks of things at least 2+ dozen search optimized newspapers and viral sites all over the country, has the article on Randi Lowenthal's new idea.
Avatars in comments on safe sites are commenting that they feel council should fund Randi and the Roaring Fork Resource Center's new project, with the 'cushion' Lindsay spoke of along about this time last year when the chamber was promoting themselves for the upcoming 2011 contract award.
This is a cushion that 81601 has heard about for a lot of years. Usually during the friction moments each year when the chamber is on the hot seat. Yet, it never shows up. Not even when grant funds are hit because there is no money for events they say are related to tourism. Like last year.
This year, smalltown7 calls out, here on SafePlace to our current Glenwood Springs City Council, for a reveal of that cushion. And then, a request for the decision on pulling that cushion over into promotion of small businesses in 81601 that are definitely going to be pulling in visitors and revenues into town under Randi Lowenthal's 'Economic Gardening' project.
The email address below is to the head city clerk who handles putting people on emailing lists for current council packets. This is also where you set up to come in during City Hall hours to view the Tourism Board minutes. The answer to the question of why Lindsay is still doing the minutes of the Tourism Board, we cannot answer.
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