Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

The City of Tampa has given their website a face-lift. Mayor Pam Iorio had the site redesigned, and created a Customer Service Center where you can report on neighbors flouting the water restrictions & accumulating junk cars, complain about the drug dealers & prostitutes just past your driveway, or simply report a pothole or missed garbage pickup. In addition, Mayor Pam has outlined her Five Areas of Strategic Importance. Those areas include:

1. Investing in Neighborhoods
2. Economic Development in Our Most Challenged Areas
3. Creating a Residential Community Downtown
4. Efficient City Government focused on Customer Service
5. City of the Arts

Hmmm there seems to be a mistake. I don’t see where “create groups for EVERYTHING” is listed, and it’s obvious that would be high on her priority list:

First Mayor Pam visited east Tampa. She quickly created an agency to handle economic development. Then along came Richard Florida with his “creative class” idea. Mayor Pam fell in love with this theory, and hired a “creative industries manager” and a “director of arts and cultural affairs.” Next, a jogger got killed by a motorcyclist on Bayshore. Mayor Pam created a “task force to improve safety” on Bayshore. Yesterday, Mayor Pam visited Sulphur Springs and promptly declared she would form an environmental round table. I wonder what kind of group it was that helped with the website redesign…

So, in addition to the Managers and Directors, Mayor Pam has already created an agency, a task force, and a round table. At this rate, Mayor Pam can create a committee, a group, a board, a team, a commission, an organization, an outfit, a congregation, a panel, and a council within the next year and a half. Then I guess she’ll have nothing to do but begin work on her reelection campaign.

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