{"id":910,"date":"2011-06-28T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T21:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2011-06-28T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T00:45:36","slug":"cana-speaks-out-in-austin-talks-about-accountability-and-lack-of-planning-by-elected-officials-for-the-austin-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"CANA Speaks out in &#8220;AustinTalks.org&#8221; about Accountability and Lack of Planning by Elected Officials for the Austin Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cana16.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chicago_flag-e1308755004768.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-911\" title=\"chicago_flag-e1308755004768\" src=\"https:\/\/cana16.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chicago_flag-e1308755004768-300x203.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cana16.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chicago_flag-e1308755004768-300x203.gif 300w, https:\/\/cana16.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chicago_flag-e1308755004768-120x80.gif 120w, https:\/\/cana16.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/chicago_flag-e1308755004768.gif 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents seek answers, accountability in aldermen\u2019s first 100 days<\/p>\n<p>by Sarah Ostman on <abbr title=\"2011-06-22\">June 22, 2011<\/abbr><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Before Rahm Emanuel became mayor last month, his team rolled out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wttw.com\/moreonthestory\/2011\/05\/10\/rahm-emanuel-outlines-goals-for-first-100-days\/\">a transition plan<\/a>. The 71-page document outlines a to-do list for his first 100 days in office, his first year and beyond, and includes a number of promises, including: cut $75 million from the budget, post a searchable city budget online and convene a committee to talk about food deserts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChange starts as a vision,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wttw.com\/moreonthestory\/files\/2011\/05\/Chicago-2011-Transition-Plan.pdf\">the report begins<\/a>, \u201cbut to become reality, it needs to be embedded within a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some West Side residents are questioning why they have not seen similar plans from their local leaders \u2013 especially after a hard-fought election that echoed with aldermen\u2019s promises to bring change to struggling West Side wards.<\/p>\n<p>Serethea Reid, a businesswoman and co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cana16.com\/\">Central Austin Neighborhood Association<\/a>, said she\u2019s troubled by what she sees as West Side leaders\u2019 lack of accountability and \u201cmeasurable objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Residents seek answers, accountability in aldermen\u2019s first 100 days\" href=\"http:\/\/austintalks.org\/2011\/06\/residents-seek-answers-accountability-in-aldermens-first-100-days\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents seek answers, accountability in aldermen\u2019s first 100 days by Sarah Ostman on June 22, 2011 Before Rahm Emanuel became mayor last month, his team rolled out a transition plan. The 71-page document outlines a to-do list for his first 100 days in office, his first year and beyond, and includes a number of promises,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cana16.com\/?p=910\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cityservices","category-economic-development","category-members-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cana16.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}