By Katherine Massopust, Paul W. Wang & Carolyn Maxwell—

The City of Perth Amboy is in desperate need of a Community Calendar. How many times have organizations of similar nature have events at the same day and time as each other. Most of these events are usually scheduled to avoid being on the same days as holidays, thus they often conflict with one another.

Why not have a Community Calendar on the City’s Website? This should be a free service offered by the City. Organizations would be able to e-mail their events to the City. The webmaster would then update the Community Calendar daily.

This way organizations can look and see what type of events are scheduled on a proposed date. If the organization believes it to be a conflict, then they can schedule their event on a different date.

In some cases such as Church bazaars, it is to the advantage of the event organizers to have the events in one weekend since people will go to all of them.

But in other cases, organizations of similar nature have appeal to the same audience. It is to the advantage of these types of organizations to schedule events on different dates. It should be up to the organization to schedule an event on that date or not. They must be aware, of course that if they do, they will have an audience that will be forced to choose what event to attend. Thus, a lower turnout at both events.

For those not computer savvy, events can be mailed via snail mail to the City and placed on the Community Calendar.

It’s about time the City of Perth Amboy updated its website. Look at Woodbridge’s Website. They have a very impressive Community Calendar. Why can’t Perth Amboy? The City of Perth Amboy website is long overdue for an overhaul. How many outdated events are listed on Perth Amboy’s website? And old news? A complete reworked website is long overdue.

A Community Calendar is both needed and necessary. If cost is a problem for paying a web designer, maybe an intern can help. I noticed an intern was helping film the Council Meetings.

A lot of business schools are looking to place their seniors in an internship program for experience and college credits. Sometimes its an unpaid internship or a small stipend.

By sprucing up the City Website, Perth Amboy will benefit with a new look to strangers to the City. (maybe potential investors?)

Also, don’t forget to send your events to the Amboy Guardian. (We reserve the right to edit if content is too large. Just send pertinent information) Send them early (three weeks in advance) so people can plan to attend your event.