To alleviate this scourge, the county executive (or the Nassau legislature) must direct the gang czar to create a coordinating committee of county commissioners, school officials and community agency heads.
Kenneth Bernard, the biodefense czar in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, told me, "The only way that you can get all of those people in the room is to call them into the White House, and to have a coordinating group under a single person".
Apply a coordinating eyeliner.
And in separate interviews, each endorsed a proposal to create a child protection czar to coordinate services.
The administration would like to appoint a war "czar" to coordinate the civilian and military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
City Councilman Bill Perkins, a Manhattan Democrat who held a recent hearing on the problem, said one step could be to appoint a "rat czar" to coordinate how city agencies respond to sightings.
In the last six weeks, many states, counties and cities have followed the example of President Bush and appointed a czar to coordinate the response to the threat of terrorism.
Amid the fighting, Do touted his success in hiring a county homeless "czar" to coordinate services, and he and the board unanimously approved the creation in October of a temporary homeless shelter called the Courtyard in an old bus terminal.
He should start by appointing an independent-minded secretary of agriculture who shares his concern for our nation's youth, our national health, global development, the environment, and animals, and he should create a National Food Policy Council and appoint a food-policy "czar" to oversee and coordinate a comprehensive and forward-thinking policy.
In a report released this week, Councilman Felder, beyond seeking to ban pigeon feeding, called for the introduction of pigeon-scaring hawks and falcons, an increase in the frequency of litter pickup in enclosed trash cans, use of pigeon birth control methods and the appointment of a pigeon czar who would coordinate the city's response to the abundant pigeon population.
