Committeeman Meir Lichtenstein about Tent City at Reorg Meeting

Isaac congratulations on your elections to Mayor I will enjoy working with you under your direction and with your agenda please know that you will be able to count on me to be here for you I wish you and your family Maz upon this great occasion and I am sure that your family is as proud of you as we are there are some issues amongst others that need to be addressed this year we have spent extensive time and effort working with the downtown buiness owners to continue to encourage be strong and vibrant downtown Mr Mayor as we discussed I will continue to work with you on this another very pring issue is pensity we in lwood are a compassionate citizenry and have a history of caring for all of those less fortunate than us we are and have been involved in a host of programs and initiatives to the lives of the less fortunate and those who have Holden on Hard Times however the ongoing issue with t city is becoming a hazard to the residents of Pen City the residents of the surrounding areas and Cloud for responders there have been violent crimes and illegal activity the very fires used to warn the residents have caused injury and death in discussions with our First Responders is the coming more and more obvious that the geographical conditions in the area make it very challenging at best and unsafe at worst to properly provide these vital Services we must as a committee act quickly to rectify these conditions Isaac as you know we have a scheduled meeting with County officials and we will impress upon them the need for us to work together on this topic expeditiously and to get it solved as quickly as possible I also will continue to work with our office of emergency management improve our response our conditions will tested during during Hurricane sanding and we certainly learned how to per improve our performance even more I hope to continue to work with our Police Department to continue to ascertain the needs of our citizens and our interactions with them so that Lage is a safer and better place for us all now i' would like to take a moment to thank my family for always being here Amar na Ricky I want to apologize to you for all the Miss family time to S emergencies and express how very much you mean to me Sarah you are the one who helps keep the house and my life together I don't know how you put up a ro of this but manage to juggle family and work besides I can passively imagine doing all this without your constant support and without your being a I hope that the year of 2013 will be a year when our town will continue to move in a positive direction I am so encouraged by the volunteerism and dedication and the good people of this town that I come across every day thank you all for coming out here today and God bless our town and our great country Happy New Year [Applause]