Rotary Club of Buffalo

The November 10 meeting will be held at Templeton Landing beginning at 12:15 p.m. It promises to be a big meeting. Mayor Brown is our speaker and that is a big appeal for guests. In addition, the Foundation will present two checks: Our final check of $23,000 to complete our $500,000 contribution to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fontana Boathouse and a check to the Buffalo Zoo of $19,902 for the Bungee Trampoline Project. Also, Cas Rodriguez will tell us more about the Hispanic-American Veterans Memorial at the Naval & Military Park that will be dedicated on November 11, as reported in the Buffalo News, Saturday Nov 8.

Mayor Byron W. Brown took the Oath of Office as the 58th Mayor of Buffalo, New York on December 31, 2005.
Elected Mayor with over 60 percent of the vote in the November 2005 General Election, Mayor Brown came into office emphasizing greater accountability and efficiency in City Hall, improving the quality of life for all city residents and a commitment to strengthening and expanding the city's economic development activities.
Since taking office, Mayor Brown has followed those three guiding principles by launching a Zero Tolerance Law Enforcement initiative targeting quality of life crimes, along with other criminal activity in the city; implemented the management accountability CitiStat Buffalo program, which monitors city departments' service delivery activities on a weekly basis; and reconfigured the city's economic development activities by creating the Department of Economic Development, Permit and Inspection Services, a change that has provided greater coordination and cooperation in all development activities taking place in the City of Buffalo.

A surge of economic development activity has followed Mayor Brown's election, including over $4.5 billion in planned, ongoing or completed development projects occurring throughout the City since 2006. Mayor Brown will update us on this activity.