OPEN & RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP:

• Encourage and allow public participation at all government meetings. There should never be a Town Board or other government meeting where the public is not allowed to speak.

• Publish Town Board, Planning Board, and other Town committee meeting Agendas on the Town's web site for public view well in advance of meetings - at least 5 business days before meeting date.  

• Tape and televise Town Board meetings on cable TV or streamed over the Web.

• Publish all committee openings (in newspapers and on the Town's web site) for the Planning Board and other town committees to encourage all citizens to apply.

• Assure uniform and consistent code enforcement by Town officials.

BUDGET OVERSIGHT:

• Schedule well-publicized Public budget review meetings when the public can attend.

• Provide a detailed Executive Summary on the Town's website that includes spending plan goals, revenue and expense assumptions and how the budget fits in with the Town's short and long term goals.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:

• Hire an experienced economic development professional to provide the needed expertise and leadership to revitalize the Town's commercial core, support current businesses  and proactively work to attract new businesses and positive economic development of all types throughout our Town.

• Actively seek State and Federal grant money and corporate sponsorships for Town projects.

• One idea for a key Town project: Chili needs an attractive, inviting Main Street in the Chili Paul Plaza / Old town Hall Campus area. A place for community members to gather, shop, socialize. Maybe add a gazebo or a clock tower or a water fountain. Wouldn't this be great!

• Identify opportunities for development balanced against maintaining the Town's character and with historic preservation in mind.

• Decide if we need to form an Architectural Review Board. It would be a good thing to set standards consistent with the Town's desire to promote orderly and harmonious development; enhance the desirability of residing in or investing in our Town; and promote visual environments which are of high aesthetic quality and variety. We need to decide if we need an Architectural Review Board  to accomplish this or if there is a better way to accomplish this goal.

• Once these standards are set, the Town has the option of choosing to charge an Architectural Review Board  with responsibility for design review of all new construction and changes and additions to commercial, industrial and multiple-family projects. Whether or not this would be a good idea should be discussed by our Town Board and Town citizens.