The Special Meeting called by the Mayor to discuss re-apportionment just ended. We will have much more information in the morning about the "goings on," but I have not left a BOMA meeting feeling this optimistic in a long time. I would like to thank each and every alderman for going into this meeting with a fairly open mind, and acting in a civil manner towards each other.
Mayor Leverette, you have taken a little bit of punishment on this site recently, but we appreciate the leadership that you provided this evening. For all of you that have kept this in front of the BOMA, it is paying off. Community involvement can and will take this city much further than apathy. Continue to stay involved and keep our elected officials accountable!
We have tried to keep this site fairly quiet in the past week so that we did not stir up emotions that cloud reason. We really appreciate reasonable, common sense decisions by the BOMA, and tonight all of us can go to sleep cautiously optimistic about the future of this city.
More in the morning....
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Cautiously Optimistic
Posted by Gorilla in the Corner at 8:02 PM
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6 comments:
The mood was certainly more positive tonight. I am convinced that the massive number of citizens involved in "gorilla", the number of names on the petitions, and the non-combative nature of Duda & Mitchell throughout this process has benefited.
I, too, am cautiously optimistic, but believe we may have something here.
And I appreciate Mayor Leverette's guiding of the meeting tonight. I would like to see him lead more often like this at regular council meetings.
Concerned Citizen
Just wait 'til you see what is to come!
I, too, hope that Mayor Leverette leads more like this in the future. We need him to lead with strength and conviction.
Way to go tonight, Danny!
And oddly great suggestions from Mr. York.
Looks like we are being heard.
Chimp Man
Ah come on, what happened at the meeting?
I wanted to come, but I was stuck on the parking lot they call 65!
Mr. York and staff are going to redraw the ward lines to try to get equal population in each ward. He said that they would have the redrawn map and several options to look at by the April workshop. They also talked about looking at this issue annually.
On a personal note this was the first meeting I have attended and I was quite surprised at how indecisive most of the aldermen/women are. I was shocked to hear "I'll go along with what ever the board decides." These folks are suppposed to be there to represent us and be our voice. At this point I don't care if they oppose my beliefs or not...just take a stand either way so I can vote accordindly in the future.
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