DLANC Special Election Results

the turnout was about 20 people more than i expected, so it was impressive in that respect. i just find it hard to swallow the idea that the neighborhood councils should be responsible for more money and members should be seated on more city commissions given the rather limited involvement in choosing its members.

in hindsight, i wish i had voted for one of the other candidates in the first round. i hope they weren’t discouraged by the lack of votes. but as the voting showed, i think most people were there already knowing one of the two run-off candidates. particularly the big cluster of people who voted for david who nearly all sat together.

Hey E, what was the number of people who voted for you? I think you have a great mandate.

I think the people that run for DLANC seats should take this job very seriously. I’m very please that Russell won the election. He’s very active in the community and steadfast with his resolve.

Anybody that takes off that much time from DLANC should be responsible enough to resign properly.
I’m sure John Sellars has very good reasons for his absense, but that doesn’t excuse him whatsoever. He should’ve resigned a long time ago and given someone with the time the chance to some good for Downtown. The fact that he threatened to sue is laughable. These seats shold be reserved for those that intend to contribute to Downtown, not scene steal.

It is very obvious that our governing board is filled with seats of people who are only holding those positions as something to put on a resume and get a bigger and better job. This is great but these people need to also show up at these board meetings and committee meetings , follow thorugh if they are ill in making sure alternates make the meetings , making sure that co -chairs are aware that the board member may not be available to chair meetings . Some of these people I sincerley beleive are not taking this NEigbohorhood council and their duties seriously, this causes problems when other members are actually committed and whom show up to make the meetings consistently and get work done and then have to come to a governing board with an executive committee which is not prepared to hear the recommendations from those committees which are ready to conduct business.

MAny committees such as the AACE committee , and the public works and transportation committee who hgave been consistent in getting work done are always at the mercy of waiting on other committees getting things done .

We need to see to it that people on our governing board who are not committed to the rest of the NEighborhood Council Committees and of course the neighborhood need to be held accouuntable , these neighborhood council leaders are publicly elected officials and are subject to teh same kind of scrutiny in public of which City Council Members and such are , so if anyone wishes to adreess these things in public , there is no need to be concerned about any type of reprisal from the elected board member if they are challenged for thier absenteeism , atttitude , and favoritism of theor friends over the committed members of the community.