HELP GET FRAMINGHAM ON THE RIGHT TRACK BY ELECTING GEOFF EPSTEIN AS MAYOR
It is time for a new Mayor with new ideas and new energy to chart a new direction for Framingham. Central to that new direction is a 100% commitment to best practices, forthright honesty, telling it like it is, and full community engagement, putting what is best for Framingham ahead of special interests.
Geoff has 10 years of experience as an elected official in two different cities and has a breadth of municipal experience unmatched by any current elected official in Framingham, including the Mayor. That extensive knowhow will be brought to bear in governance when Geoff makes it Mayor.
Geoff has also spent the last two years publishing more than 150 articles on improving Framingham in The Framingham Observer. That set a high standard for truth, honesty, facts and figures, and laid out multiple ways to bring positive improvements to Framingham, while explaining the problems facing Framingham
That same approach will continue on into governance when Geoff makes it to Mayor. The facts will be explained, problems identified and solutions proposed, inviting buy in from the City Council and the community.
From the extensive analysis, chronicled by The Framingham Observer, it has become crystal clear that over the past 4 years, everything has been going downhill: student performance, the roads, the water & sewer system, school roofs, the solar installation effort, the workforce, zoning decisions, neighborhoods, ...
During that time, there has also been a dramatic loss of common sense in financial decision making, and repeated administration misreading of important state and local laws, including the fundamentals of Proposition 2 1/2, the MBTA Communities Act, the role of the School Committee, the City Charter, ...
There has also been very obvious favored treatment of developers by the city administration and some members of the City Council, which has caused special concern in Nobscot, but has also raised the alarm more broadly across the city. Even with the elections 7 months or more away, the Mayor and the Chair of the City Council are filling their campaign war chests with more and more developer money.
We MUST make fundamental changes to the government culture which is degrading the city on all fronts, and is undermining community confidence in city government. It is time to replace an 'old guard' mentality which has dominated Framingham government for 25 years and has caused the city especially serious damage in the last 4 years.