City of Ithaca
Chief of Police Search Process
Community Forum Process


Press Release
November 12, 1996

First Forum:
Brainstorming Description

On Monday November 18th at 7:30 PM, the City of Ithaca will hold its first community forum in order to select the next chief of police. The forum will be held at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 West Buffalo St., and is open to all interested citizens. At this meeting, community members will be asked to voice their opinions about the characteristics they’d like to see in the next chief of police. If you are interested in this process, and feel that you would like to have input in this decision, then please attend this important community meeting. Child care will be provided at the forum.

If you are unable to attend the meeting, but would still like to provide input, your three options are. 1) Call the hotline that the city has set up to receive your opinion at 1-800-386-7734 or 2) Tear off the page distributed by the newspaper, write your response to the focus statement and mail the form to Concept Systems Inc. 118 Prospect St. Suite 309 Ithaca, NY 14850 or 3) Tear off the page distributed by the newspaper, write your response to the focus statement and submit the form to a drop box at one of the following locations: The Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), Titus Towers, Northside Community Center, Southside Community Center or City Hall. Note - hotline, mail-in and drop box submissions must be made by Wednesday November 20th in order to be considered in the selection process.

At the first community forum, citizens will be asked to consider the following question:

Taking into account your own personal needs as a citizen, and the needs of the community as a whole, what are the specific characteristics that you’d like to see in the next chief of police?
And then respond to the following question:
One specific characteristic that I’d like to see in the next chief of police is.......


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This project is sponsored in part by:
Concept Systems Incorporated
118 Prospect Street, Suite 309
Ithaca NY 14850
(607) 272-1206
(607) 272-1215 FAX
E-mail: concepthelp@conceptsystems.com
Website: Concept Systems Incorporated Website

Copyright © 1996, William M.K. Trochim