• < Previous Event
• Next Event >

Comment

Comment by Patsy Underwood on April 18, 2011 at 10:33am

**REMINDER** You don't want to miss this meeting!!

With the big event on Friday - Friday NIght Live Tax Day Tea Party Rally - you may have missed the email about the Small Business Group meeting. 

 

Our guest speaker, Carla Miller, recently spoke at the FCTP Southside Group and the information she shared was amazing.  The purpose of the Ethics Office is to have a local ethics code that is effective; in plain English; not duplicative of any ixisting state ethics laws; and on that corresponds to documented risks/problems. 

 

Please join us for a series of meetings beginning with our speaker for this upcoming meeting.  It is imperative that we hold our elected officials to a highly ethical standard.  As individual citizens as well as small business owners, we stand to have the greatest impact on our local government.  However, if we expect it to be better, whether ethically, more transparent and more responsive, it is our responsibility to participate well beyond the election.

 

This will be the first in a series of how our local government operates and the role, we as citizens, should play in it.  The first meeting will be on ethics in local government.  This will be followed with an overall understanding of the City Council and the Mayor's office and how they operate and how this pertains to the city charter.  Finally, we will establish oversight committees from the FCTP small business group to attend city council meetings and to establish a positive working relationship with members of our local government.

Please RSVP to LeAnne at leaking55@comcast.net or on this site.

We look forwarding to seeing you tomorrow night.