A coalition of city neighbors under the banner www.onebridgeport.com has issued a call to action to support a proposed ordinance before the City Council that would regulate adult entertainment establishments in the city. A public hearing, with a possible council vote, is scheduled for Monday night. This eblast is making the rounds for support.
Dear Friends and Neighbors in Bridgeport,
Last night the Ordinance Committee passed the Sexually Oriented Business Ordinance and scheduled a public hearing and City Council vote for this coming Monday, October 1, 2012.
We here at OneBridgeport set up this petition:
www.change.org/petitions/vote-yes-for-the-sexually-oriented-business-ordinance
so that for each person who signs, an automatic email will be sent to every one of our our City Council representatives letting them know we support a YES! vote on this Ordinance.
We urge you to attend the Public Hearing at City Hall on Monday night AND to sign this petition to show City Council how dead serious we are about getting this legislation passed and that we expect City Council to ACT on this and vote YES!
It is only with your grassroot efforts on these issues that we have been successful in pushing through the new Massage Parlor Ordinance and the new Massage Therapists law at the State level. Let’s keep the momentum going. We look to you to please take the time NOW to sign on to this petition and circulate to everyone you know in Bridgeport.
Time is tight so we ask that you please sign as soon as possible:
www.change.org/petitions/vote-yes-for-the-sexually-oriented-business-ordinance
Thank you for your continued support from all of us here at OneBridgeport.
Here is an easy way for OIB readers to vote EARLY this year and encourage their City Council members to bring the regulations bearing on Adult entertainment in the City up to date, thereby improving the ‘quality of life’ for more residents than today.
The tie vote in the Ordinance Committee earlier this week broken by its Chair shows there are long-term, well represented interests in the City in maintaining the status quo on such enterprises. Those interests have been represented quietly and behind the scenes so a climate of disinterest in change has been part of our environment.
The Ordinance Committee will have a public hearing at 6:00pm on this and other ordinances that will then likely be presented at the City Council meeting that starts at 7:00pm. The ordinance hearing is the only time for members of the public to speak to City Council members on this subject.
The only ordinance to be on the Ordinance Committee Agenda this past Tuesday evening and fail to be discussed because it was TABLED concerns the matter of STIPENDS for the City Council members. The subject has been alive for some time within the CC, and doubtless language has been prepared for this matter, but the discussion and debate about how to allocate more productively the $180,000 of taxpayer money each year is not subject to public reflection. The $9,000 per annum allowance to pay for CC person expenses incurred in their service as Council persons is not currently spent (or reimbursed) by each Council person. We know that because the Monthly Financial Report for several years indicates about 60% of the funds are spent. But what are they spent on? Who uses the funds? And what happens to the remainder unspent? No one knows or can easily find out. Public disclosure is important when public funds are spent. Time will tell.
There are far more pressing issues than strip clubs and massage parlors. While our city’s children have been murdered all year in neighborhoods such as the East Side we have had the City Council’s time taken up with Sue Brannelly’s strange obsession with massage parlors. This law should be voted down.
Go BlackRockGuy, you tell them.
I was on my way home at 1:40AM Friday night and there were five cop cars parked talking! by a strip bar in the neighborhood. There was NOTHING going on there and we wonder why our kids are getting gunned down and killed on city streets. GOOD WORK CITY COUNCIL … SEE WHAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
“We know that because the Monthly Financial Report for several years indicates about 60% of the funds are spent. But what are they spent on?”
They are spent at Mario’s and lap dances while they are at the National Council of Cities conferences.
This has always rubbed me the wrong way!
The above mechanism could be a good way to attract petitioning candidates, or, in this case with some Council members, some Candy Dates!
FtM, you said, rubbed me the wrong way! No pun intended?
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I voted for Marty McCarthy in the 130th. I didn’t know he was for strip clubs in Black Rock. See what happened? Next year pick someone who cares for Black Rock.
Imagine that! Fluckarella knows how to hire all the hookers and knows all the websites, shocker!
Aren’t strip clubs supposed to be dealt with on a state level, with liquor permits and all? Don’t they have rules and mandates enforced by the state?
While you may not agree with them in your neighborhood, unfortunately they have a right to be open and conduct business. It’s not the city council’s fault whether or not state health codes or any other mandates are enforced. That enforcement comes from health departments, liquor commissions, etc. I believe the council voted on whether or not they had a right to be open. In Fluck’s world, Americans can’t open a business if he doesn’t agree with it.
Happy Yom Kippur Martin/Burman whoever you are.
Martin, Sal, Gus and Bob make this City what it is today, the ARM PIT of New England.
So according to you, we’re to blame the ails of the Park City on strip joints? The woman who proposed all this excessive legislation is delusional, and apparently you and she drink from the same cup. As Black Rock Guy mentioned, people are being murdered at an alarming rate and our eyes are focused on strip joints and massage parlors?! When you don’t like a program on TV, you change the channel. Here’s a novel idea. If you don’t like massage parlors or strip joints, DON’T GO THERE!
See Fluck, if I actually were Jewish your antisemitic ways might actually be offensive.
I love it how people like you can name call and spew incomplete information from behind a fake persona because you are too cowardly to put your name to things.
Hear hear!
burman only comes out when Martin McCarthy flucks up. LOL.
Some of the clubs do not have liquor licenses so the rules do not apply to them.
What an interesting range of opinions on this issue. I think most of the writers emphasize they are in the “less is more” camp in terms of entertainment. Less government regulation, fewer clothes worn, and then burman is back.
Businesses have a real right to be open, and the public has a right through creation of laws and regulations to be safe and maintain a similar environment for owners, customers and the community at large. Community values change. Laws change accordingly but slowly. Enforcement often lags, or needs new regulations. That is what has been happening at the State level and now in Bridgeport. It is the job of the Ordinance Committee to do the heavy lifting, craft a document that passes out of their committee and then gets a public hearing. Monday evening, 6pm, City Hall. City discussion of how sex, money and power work in Bridgeport. Then the City Council gets to vote (assuming the hearing of the Ordinance Committee finishes sometime that evening). Time will tell.
Glad to know some are paying attention to guns, violent crimes and murders (even in Black Rock and the North End), but those activities serve as no passport to ignore the effect of businesses that lower property values for neighbors, that communicate a different message about entertainment than most other local businesses (one reason they are not located in surrounding communities) and serve no external positive to the business environment of the City.
Part of what JML was writing deals with secondary effects of the above-described uses. There are also public nuisance laws that enable the po-po to come in and shut these places down.
Free Market system and sometimes a Fee Market system to pay to play in Bridgeport.
Hey, as long as Sal and Gus are writing checks to the Mayor, strip clubs and massage parlors will always be part of Black Rock and B’port, right Martin McCarthy?
Strip clubs are nothing more than the exploitation and degradation of women. They are visited by lonely basically socially inept men who hope to get lucky. Women working in these clubs are lured by the hours and by the money they are promised, many are drug addicts, many are single moms with no other way to make a living.
The men are a different story altogether. I never figured out why a person would pay inflated prices for booze and the hope he would meet these girls.
*** AS long as the local and state government get their taxes, etc. and the clubs are not allowed out of the red-light district into the remaining ‘burbs, who cares; After all, it’s Zombieland, no? ***
*** I’m glad I’ve never been to those clubs Fardy’s been talking about, they sound too expensive and heart breaking. The ones I visit, the girls buy the booze and pay me $5 a dance to boogie with me! (wink) *** ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH AND ONE BEER! ***