If you get or see one of these last minute orange flyers, please disregard the year 2004. "That is a mistake," according to Michael Land from Alderman Moore's office. Land said, "I screwed up... We are not trying to turn back the clock".... "thanks for pointing the typo out". I also pointed out that these orange outdated flyers had yet to appear anywhere near Morse Avenue. I was told the boundaries for flyering were "Touhy to Pratt, the Lake to Ridge" said Wayne Frazer from Alderman Moore's office. The flyer in this photo was taken in the 1100 block of West Sherwin, a few blocks outside the area.
Back to the information on the flyer. On Monday the 14th, at the Chicago Public Library, ( 6907 N. Clark St. ) a Morse Avenue Streetscape community meeting to review the plans is being held at 7pm. The meeting is hosted by the Alderman and his three political action committee groups, DevCorp North, RPCC and RPCDC. Hope everyone can show up for this federally funded, pork barrel, $800,000 meeting? Do you wonder why RPCC, RPCDC and DevCorp North are involved? Could it be for a cut in the consulting fees?
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I would assume that the flyers are not all where they should be because volunteers put them up. I got an email asking for help today:
Hi folks
To add to the previous message, for those who live between Touhy and Pratt, we would greatly appreciate your help flyering for the meeting.
If you are willing to help, we are looking to get a couple of blocks flyered near your residence.
Please let us know
Mike Land
The "previous mesage" contained details of the meeting.
I am a little outside of this boundary but am interested to hear what type of projects people want. Hope to see you all there. If it turns out not to be productive, you can always check out a book.
I saw no flyers from Touhy to Greenleaf, Ashland to Greenview. Except that there was one lonely orange flyer taped to an apartment building fence on Touhy btw Ashland and Greenview. Maybe our area is off the Alderman's office's route.
I'll refer everyone to my previous post. The alderman's office asked for volunteers from the community to help put up fliers. If you want them all over the place, go get some and put them up. Also, if you send your email address to the Alderman's office, you'll get a nice email notification of things like this so we don't need to waste a lot of paper on fliers that hooligans just rip down and throw on the ground.
I take your point Michael, but I do think that if the Alderman's office currently relies almost exclusively on volunteers to announce public meetings, he should be re-thinking his outreach effort. I live on Morse, and I haven't seen a flyer - you'd think with such limited resources, they would start there.
As for email notification, that's great for people with internet, but as you know there are a lot of people in RP that don't have that access.
meunderstand - I think the point people are making is that if the Alderman's office puts up flyers, they should come back around and take them down after the event is over, so the neighborhood doesn't get trashed up.
Let's face it, there are a lot of fliers that go up for a variety of different meetings for different groups all the time. There is a new flier on my door just about every day. Often, it's there when I get home and by the time I get back from walking my dog, it's gone. Many people in my building don't like stuff stuck all over the place. Also, we've all seen people tear postings down for no reason.
The alderman's office has a pretty small staff and if they were out all day putting up fliers everybody would be complaining about that and Craig could post about another scandal. Relying on volunteers to help distribute info on a meeting that is for the public is not unreasonable.
In an earlier post Craig accused volunteers from the 49th ward democrats of being tools of the alderman and poked fun at them. Maybe there are few volunteers to put fliers up on Morse because they are trying to avoid Craig's taunting. Maybe they don't want to walk around Morse after work (it gets dark pretty early these days). Whatever the reason, I am getting tired of everyone complaining and waiting for someone else to do something.
>Relying on volunteers to help distribute info on a meeting that is for the public is not unreasonable.
Is Moore announcing the meeting on his web site reasonable?
It is on his website. What's your point?
Jeff,
I am not the one who was picking on you for not living here. Anyway, I get the joke.
Well, how about use of direct mail? One piece of mail per building, although expensive, shouldn't be outside the realm of possibility, especially if it is a postcard. If the mail has a great big notice on the front "please post in a public area of this builing" and if it was sent in time for people to actually get it before the event, why wouldn't this be a better alternative?
I do realize it would require earmarking budget for activities that are actually relevant to the ward and more organization than they currently have now...
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