May 13, 2008...6:27 pm
Operation Yellow Box
Councilor Barbara Haller is upset that the first yellow box was installed with little notice to the councilors. She would have preferred the citywide roll out they were promised, or at least some preknowledge.
“The intention of the manager…was transparency,” says Haller, talking about a report on tonight’s agenda that called for a phased-in Yellow Box program.
While saying she was pleased with the City Manager’s efforts and the reports, “I was very disturbed to receive a call from Channel 3 on Monday to find out that the city was moving forward with Operation Yellow Box.” The council should have been told about the roll out first, she says, asking the City Manager to explain.
“The way it was done is much different than what was presented…I apologize.”
James Gardiner, Acting Director of Public Health: “I will take full responsibility for the implementation and roll out of Operation Yellow Box, what has and has not [happened].”
The hold-up in March, when the program was supposed to rollout originally, was that the vendor backed out. Some of the vendors came in at 5x the anticipated cost, but Gardiner says a vendor has been found.
“By the end of this month, the remaining three boxes will be installed…and within two weeks, this Operation Yellow Box will be in full implementation.”
Haller: “By having one location announced, we move backwards,” in regards to stigmatizing certain areas of the city, she says.
And Clancy says the only reason the council voted for the boxes was because they were told there would be universal wide roll out.
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May 13, 2008 at 7:17 pm
a pure waste of time getting involved with this issue..another reason to believe that the city really has no hope for the urban core and that those of us occasionally stroked for actually living and working in the urban core is just that an occasional stroke
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