Is the Election Mechanism For Non-Resident Property Owners Clearly Defined?

The Ordinance states that an election is”…to be held March 3, 2009.”

Actually, for a property owner who lives outside the Shaw neighborhood their ability to vote involves a complicated process that includes applying four weeks in advance of the “election date” .  The issue here is that the Ordinance doesn’t properly set out the mechanism of how the election will work.

Is the Flora Place Exclusion Fair?

Flora Place would receive as much “benefit” from this as anyone in Shaw, and to exclude Flora seems arbitrary.

Where is our Feasibility Study?

The Board of Aldermen was required to conduct a feasibility study and publish a written report of the study with the “City Clerk” – according to the Ordinance, the study was conducted but the Ordinance goes on to say the report was published “in the office of the City Register as Document ______” (yes, that’s right, it’s blank).