The Choice is Clear, Vote Ray Spear
I have been an active and involved member of community of Coventry for some 30 years and have proudly, and with distinction, served as its Superintendent of Schools for 16 years. Subsequently serving as a member of the School Committee for 4 years and its Chairman for 2 of these years. The past 2 years I have served as a member of the Town Council and its President.
Upon my retirement as Superintendent in June 1996, I sought out and found other activities in which I became involved, but noted, as the years went by, that I was becoming disenchanted with how some things were happening in the governing of our Schools and Town. Thus my entering into the activities of the School Committee and the Town Council.
My closer working relationship with Town government via being a member of the School Committee resulted in my sincere belief that communications between all parties in the Community needed some rather serious adjustments; between Town Council and School Committee, between the Town Council and taxpayers, and between the Town Council and its employees. Much work has been done to improve this aspect of town government, and I will work to continue its impact to maintain it.
Questions like what’s going on, and why don’t our citizen know some things before decisions are made were frequent and many? Such questions are much less frequent now, and I will continue my efforts to assure this continues to improve.
I believe we are, and should be, a community of the people, by the people and for the people, and note that this concept has been improved greatly over the past two years. It is for this reason that I decided to run for the Town Council - District 1 seat in 2008, and continue to believe in and support the concept as a strong justification to run again.
My background and experience in general and my service to the community in specific, clearly establishes my qualification to seek this honor and privilege and I pledge the fulfillment of a commitment to continue to right shortcomings within the leadership of our community, and work to strengthen the overall opertion of your town government.
My campaign slogan is "the choice is clear, vote Ray Spear" Town Council – District 1. I support this statement with the addition of the word “continues”. Thus, “ The choice 'continues' to be clear, vote Ray Spear”.
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