{"id":10324,"date":"2015-04-21T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:19:29","slug":"letter-city-council-working-hard-to-set-coatesville-on-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=10324","title":{"rendered":"Letter: City Council working hard to set Coatesville on right path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10323\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>As the City of Coatesville gets ready to celebrate its first one hundred years as a city, the\u00a0members of City Council and I are working hard to position the city for the start of its next\u00a0century. Our recent work to produce a budget with no tax increase is the first step in that\u00a0process. We want to keep our existing residents, so Council must be mindful of the impact that\u00a0taxes have on them.<\/p>\n<p>Because we want to attract new residents and businesses, we also must be attentive to what our\u00a0actions say to them. If we are going to succeed in making Coatesville a city that can compete\u00a0for new residents and businesses in the challenging environment of the 21st century, it&#8217;s\u00a0imperative that we get our own house in order.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honored to be President of Coatesville City Council, and with my fellow Council members\u00a0will continue to challenge the status quo in the City. We no longer do things just because\u00a0&#8220;that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s always been done&#8221;. Every day we are looking for ways to do things better\u00a0and more efficiently. For our city to be successful, this is the approach we must take.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re off to a good start in this process, but this is only the beginning, and there is much more\u00a0to be done. As we look back and celebrate the successes of the City&#8217;s first one hundred years in\u00a0the coming weeks and months, please know that we will also be working to establish new\u00a0partnerships, strengthen current relationships, and put all the necessary pieces in place that will\u00a0allow Coatesville to flourish in the second century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Willing Servant,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Linda Lavender Norris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>President<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Coatesville City Council<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: As the City of Coatesville gets ready to celebrate its first one hundred years as a city, the\u00a0members of City Council and I are working hard to position the city for the start of its next\u00a0century. Our recent work to produce a budget with no tax increase is the first step in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[3596,126,24],"class_list":["post-10324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-featured","tag-centennial","tag-city-council","tag-coatesville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}