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| | Recently, Citizens for a Better Brunswick™ has been focusing on the
following issues:
 | Decline of local commercial areas - causes and possible solutions. New strip malls are
being built but the main
occupancy comes from relocated Brunswick businesses, not new companies. This
further depresses the other areas of our City. |
| Plans and progress of the Brunswick Lake Project |
| Changes of personnel in key leadership positions |
| Review of the City Charter for possible changes or updates |
Significant past issues prior to our establishment:
| An adult-oriented nightclub opening near a daycare center |
| An adult-oriented lingerie store opening even closer to the same daycare
center |
| City Council allowed former City Manager Skip Trimble to retire and immediately
rehired him at his old salary so he could double-dip the system, collecting
a pension and city salary at the same time. At least two other Brunswick
officials have been allowed to retire and then have been reappointed to
their previous position since then. This practice is very discouraging to
other employees who see their chance for advancement based upon their work
being stopped. |
| Former City Manager Trimble has also
been paid several thousand dollars a year in addition to his City Manager salary
to "administer" the Brunswick bus service. Does he administer the
buses only at nights or on weekends, or is he really triple-dipping by
administering the bus system while also being paid as City Manager and
as a retiree? His total compensation in 1999 exceeded $101,000. |
| Installation of an 85-foot radar tower a mere 18 feet from Brunswick
backyards. Our City Council turned the owners down when they wanted to
install it in our Industrial Park, far from Brunswick homes. So the tower
got installed in Brunswick Hills Township within falling distance of a new
Brunswick neighborhood. Our officials claim none of them never saw the legal
notices about its pending construction, yet the City of Brunswick also uses
the same newspaper as its newspaper of record for legal notices. |
| After the World Trade Center disaster, former City Manager Trimble refused to
allow our firefighters to raise funds for NYC. He told them they could raise
funds as long as they did it off-duty, did not wear anything
identifying themselves as Brunswick firefighters and did not tell anyone
they were Brunswick firefighters. Would you give
money to someone in street clothes that claims he/she is a firefighter but
cannot say which department they work for? Even after his embarrassing performance on
TV, he still refused to allow our firefighters to work gathering funds while
on duty. He only "apologized" for his conduct after it became evident even to
him that he could lose his job. His actions and words during his
television interviews have spoken louder than his so-called
"apology." He has not "seen the light", rather he has
"felt the heat." Our firefighters collected almost $38,000 in the
four days they were allowed to collect. |
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