September 21, 2005
Triozzi Podcast : Right Now
Listen to the new Triozzi Podcast :
http://www.spinnovate.com/triozzi/tzi_podcast_whyrun.mp3
Then leave your comments.
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September 06, 2005
TriozziFest This Saturday!
Get your tickets to TRIOZZIFEST, a star-studded concert this Saturday, September 10, to benefit the election of Robert Triozzi as Mayor of Cleveland. The concert at The Odeon (6:30 p.m. doors) features Donnie Iris & The Cruisers (Ah! Leah!, Love Is Like A Rock, The Rapper, etc.) in a rare featured Cleveland performance. It gets better. Donnie will be joined on stage by local legend Michael Stanley, set to do several songs with the Cruisers. Another legendary Cleveland artist, Carlos Jones & The P.L.U.S. Band, will be rocking the house with their unique brand of reggae and spirituality. And, the show will be opened by one of Cleveland’s best new bands – Cactus 12, who are celebrating the release of their first CD. Numerous celebrities are expected to grace the stage. An all-star jam will conclude the festivities. Support democracy and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime evening of entertainment!
Buy Tickets at www.theodeon.com
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September 01, 2005
City Inspector General
From Today's Press Conference (see below). What do you think about this plan to clean-up City Hall? Leave your comments and tell us what you think.
NEWS RELEASE
TRIOZZI WILL APPOINT CITY INSPECTOR GENERAL
IG to target corruption, irregularities and poor performance
CLEVELAND (September 1, 2005) – Former Cleveland Municipal Judge Robert J. Triozzi today unveiled his plan for an Office of Inspector General to prevent City Hall corruption and attack shortcomings in delivering services – and to put Cleveland back on the economic development map.
The inspector general will serve to prevent corruption and abuse while promoting efficiency and effectiveness at City Hall. The position will be similar to that in federal agencies.
“How many jobs did Cleveland lose because the perception out there is that the playing field in Cleveland is an insider’s game?” said Triozzi, who resigned his seat on the bench to run for mayor. “We have witnessed a breakdown of city functions while corruption and poor management have allowed the city to lose millions.
“An Office of Inspector General may not prevent all problems, but it will go a long way in attacking them proactively, unlike waiting until the horse is out of the barn,” said Triozzi. “You can’t call yourself a leader if you conveniently sit back and simply react to situations like alleged payoffs and overtime abuse. My plan is to close the door on corruption before the horse gets out. My plan is proactive prevention, not belated reaction."
The city inspector general’s office will be a place where city employees, residents, contractors and others can take concerns. It will differ from a complaint bureau because it will work more on bringing wrongdoing to light and punishing offenders. It will also differ from a special counsel or special investigator because it will be a permanent part of city government and will be the first step in fixing the system where it’s gone wrong.
“While I shore up management at City Hall, my administration will not overlook transgressions of the public trust, or the neglect of basic services the city needs to provide,” said Triozzi. “Taxpayers deserve value for their dollar.”
Triozzi said that leadership requires daily attention to the bottom line, which in itself would help prevent the kinds abuses that have occurred – and in the long run will allow the city to provide more and better services within the city’s limited resources.
In addition to making City Hall accountable to the people, Triozzi has an extensive plan for improving governance to make Cleveland the 21 st-Century “City That Works”:
• Reviewing department functions top to bottom.
• Creating and supporting models of innovation in government.
• Establishing strong intergovernmental relationships and capitalizing on regional opportunities.
• Making City Hall a model of accessibility.
The Triozzi platform, which can be accessed at www.TriozziForMayor.com, advocates school financing reform and significant educational improvement; increasing good-paying jobs and building on the economic engines we already have; restoring quality of life in our neighborhoods by reducing board-ups, bringing back police mini-stations, re-inventing neighborhood business districts and initiating comprehensive street repair; and rebuilding city government to make Cleveland the “City that Works” for the 21 st Century.
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August 28, 2005
Triozzi Podcast : Leadership
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July 19, 2005
Triozzi Podcast : Safety
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June 15, 2005
City Hall’s blight fight- too little, too late
We can solve the problems of boards-up and blight in our neighborhoods, but it
will take more than the Johnny-come-lately approach we got from City Hall this
week. I applaud the initiative of Neighborhood Progress Inc. in commissioning
a study on the subject, and agree with its recommendations.
But we must go further.
We must have a goal of eliminating housing board-ups by getting to the causes.
Not only must the mortgage companies and banks that own foreclosed properties
be held accountable for their condition – as I outlined weeks ago in my
neighborhoods platform – but we have to get those properties back onto our
inventory of solid, affordable housing. Reselling good houses is as important
as building new ones. In fact, for residents who cannot afford $100,000-and-up
new homes, it’s essential.
We need to get at the root of the problem with a concerted effort to clear title
to such homes so neighborhood housing groups can put them back on the market –
and those houses cease being a drag on the neighborhood. My plan is to get law
firms, banks, mortgage companies, realty agents and others to work with Cleveland’s
Housing Court and neighborhood housing groups to speed the process. It can be
done.
More important, we must prevent blight before it starts through a comprehensive
code-enforcement strategy. Our current complaint-based system of getting building
inspectors out to neighborhoods is ineffective and antiquated. We need to begin
systematic code enforcement that concentrates on rental properties.
It’s too bad the city administration couldn’t have tackled board-ups
and blight in the last three and a half years. Many of the tools were in place
but ignored until now, an election year. So we are stuck with too little and too
late because city officials have ignored the problem. Their new proposed solution
is similarly short-sighted, and will have little effect unless we attack the problem
at its roots.
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