A New Blog for a New Term
Today, I begin my second term as your mayor. In this term, I pledge to you to finish what we started four years ago and I ask you to hold me accountable for reaching the goals we set.
Angelenos, in my next four years, I plan to tackle five major initiatives - job creation, mass transit, public safety, environment and education. I don't have to tell you about the economic crisis we are facing. Our unemployment rate has reached 12 percent and home foreclosure rates are climbing. To combat this head-on, I have created a jobs team, dedicated solely to business attraction, retention and connecting entrepreneurs to the resources they need.
FIVE GOALS. FOUR YEARS.
"Angelenos, I offer this oath today. In the next four years, we are going to judge ourselves plain and simple – based on what we build.
We intend to write our record in concrete rather than poetry, focused on deadlines over headlines.
And you have this in writing: We are going to track our promises and put the results online.
And we are going to build our efforts around five clear goals for the next four years."