It's hard to find a name more clunky than "Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee," yet that's what government officials decided to call the 14-town agency created to oversee the trash incinerator's operations back in 1986.
I suspect that former Mayor John Leone, who helped push for building the burner, bears some of the responsibility. The graceful use of language is not one of his strengths.
But even now, 22 years later, it's not too late to come to the aid of this awkwardly named government agency. After all, rebranding is a great American tradition.
Though Microsoft was doing pretty well selling MS-DOS in its early days, it didn't hit the jackpot until it put a pretty face on the computer software and began calling it Windows.
IBM started off as Tabulating Machine Company, which doesn't exactly roll of the tongue, then switched in 1924 to International Business Machines Corp., which wasn't much better. As IBM, though, it has soared.
What was once the Entertainment and Sports Program Network is now simply ESPN. It works.
And what could be more apt for this exercise than dumping the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the simple, historical Russia?
So what could replace the BRRFOC name? Any good ideas?
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Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
14 comments:
WHY??????
Who cares
Solid Waste Association for Burning (SWAB)
Bristol Burns While Moving ForWARD
Steve, why do you bother?
I thought it already had a name, "City Hall".
Re: 10:11 Poster
Like I said Steve, why do you bother? That was such a juvenile and moronic comment.
7:46 and 11:12 complainer: what makes you the judge of what is appropriate and accurate?
City Hall is a cesspool of wasteful spending and cronyism.
..."A cesspool of wasteful spending and cronyism" --- In the absence of anything real to bitch about, seems some people feel the need to bitch about just about everything.
What's the matter 11:57? You didn't get that position you'd been hoping for at city hall so now it's a "cesspool"?...Awww poor baby...
Re: 11:57 Poster
The Board of Finance is currently meeting two to three nights a week hearing budget presentations from Department Heads for the next fiscal year.
I am sure they would want to hear from you as to your thoughts on "cesspools and cronyism" and your ideas on how to cut spending and which city employees to fire.
My point is that your inflammatory rhetoric solves nothing and offers no solutions. In that regard, I am a fine judge.
Gee, doesn't THIS Board of Finance have their own ideas as to how the budget might be cut?
Previous Boards, years ago, made cuts and the mayor and Departmant heads had to adjust and live with them.
Why not now?
Municipal Trash Authority. The MTA.
I like the Leone Trash Burner idea.
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