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City must enforce residency ordinance
City must enforce residency ordinance The residency ordinance is good public policy and should not be ignored. No one, including talented, high-profile and high-ranking officials, should be exempt. Plus, it's difficult to understand why city workers wouldn't want to live in the city. The size of a city's work force and how it is compensated is dictated by its tax base. City workers should be cheerleaders for cities if for no other reason than it is in their best interest. City workers should pay city taxes. Critics are wrong in asserting the law limits Jackson's talent pool. Melton can still recruit workers from anywhere, including Afghanistan. But once they sign on, they must understand a basic expectation of a Jackson city employee: They must live in and pay their fair share in Jackson. Eric Stringfellow 
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I think Stringfellow kind of misses the boat here. A residency requirement kind of flies in the face of the current state of technology and the ability for organizations to operate on scales larger than they are. Who knows, we may be outsourcing city data entry to Bangalore one day. How does that work out? The residency requirement, should there be any, should be imposed by the employer (in this case the city of Jackson - the Mayor). The Mayor ought to be able to say, "we want to offer you a job, and the condition of it is that you need to move here". But that should not be codified in an ordinance. Walker has agreed and would have done so, ordinance or not. Fordice is an integral part of the Jackson Metro community and to hone in on her living situation is to ignore the value she can bring. Hell, she probably has a shorter commute than someone living in South Jackson. If Stringfellow really banks on this argument, he should suggest someone ready, willing and able for the job that is better than Fordice. My money says he couldn't. I know I sure couldn't. In short, residency ought to be like a hiring preference. Employers regularly give "preference" in hiring based on a variety of criteria. In other words, two identical candidates with one living in Jackson and one living outside of Jackson, residency could be used to "break the tie". Residency like the others should be included in this case, but that should not be absolute. Especially when you look for the best and brightest. By the way, how many Clarion Ledger employees live outside the city limits? Posted by: Alan at July 14, 2005 07:24 AMI support the residency requirement. As Stringfellow said, city employees should be ambassadors for Jackson. If Pat Fordice is unwilling to make the move, our new mayor should nominate someone else for her position. Residency requirements are hardly a local phenomenon. Posted by: at July 14, 2005 08:16 AMWhat's another unenforced law in Jackson amongst friends? I happen to think that the city should be hiring the best regardless of where they live. I don't believe work will be of a superior quality if an employee lives within the city limits. It will be up the management in the Executive Branch to produce the quality and quantity necessary to move the city forward. That being said, I also feel our new Mayor is sending a terrible mixed message by ignoring and showing contempt for a law currently on the books. I find that to be equally as arrogant as the lip service Harvey Johnson paid to the residency requirement for two terms. There is no justification for breaking the law. If there is not a plan to immediately seek a legal repeal of the law with the Council, there should be. Change the law, modify the law but don't flaunt it, ignore it or knowingly break it. Asking Jacksonians to do as you say, but not as you do won't lead us to the higher ground. Where employees of a private company live is not germaine to the issue. Posted by: CardCounter at July 14, 2005 11:28 AMGood points, CardCounter, but I do believe residency requirements have a symbolic value. If one believes in the city enough to work for it (especially in a position like that offered to Mrs. Fordice) then one should make the symbolic gesture of moving within the city limits and making it one's home. Posted by: at July 14, 2005 12:38 PMLet's get Putin to run America... Who cares where he pays taxes or where his allegiance lies or who the F!@#$ cares where he lives or pledges to what $@#$@ flag. It's all the same, right? While we're at it, let's get Sony to rule the OpenNap networks and get Micro$ucks to rule the General Public License (GPL) AKA GNU. It's all good cuz there's people in f-ing bum-F-Egypt that will do it for pennies.... Right? Seriously, Alan, are you on crack? If it weren't for the lovely Mrs Lange, I'd honestly think you belonged somewhere between Hattiesburg and Gulfport (aka double wide and two stories and a boatload of tornadoes, hurricanes and racial slurs). Posted by: k.a. at July 14, 2005 11:11 PMAnd, by the way, when the "ambassadors" and the upper echelon of Jackson start drinking BROWN WATER, call me. Seriously. I'd like to see Pat Fordice in a tub of brown water talking about "So fresh and so clean clean". Posted by: k.a. at July 14, 2005 11:53 PMPost J.Daniels, I should probably explain I wasn't calling you a racist in that last sentence, Alan. The S. Mississippi reference was a personal reference to my brother and friends that often think the way you do or in similar trains of logic. I guess that wouldn't make sense unless you know him or me or were sharing the late night whiskey with me. ;-) Posted by: k.a. at July 15, 2005 08:05 AMKnol, thanks for clearing that up. For a minute there, I thought you were on crack. 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