On the ballot
ON TUESDAY, voters will face only four questions on the ballot, a reprieve from the eight complicated ones they had to wade through during May's primary election.
ON TUESDAY, voters will face only four questions on the ballot, a reprieve from the eight complicated ones they had to wade through during May's primary election.
Here are the ballot questions and our views:
No. 1: Would require Council members to be residents of the districts they're running in for at least a year prior to election.
VOTE: No.
Why create a law when the law of natural political selection should cover this situation? Voters are unlikely to support an interloper unfamiliar with their district.
No. 2: Should the city create a "Public School Family and Child Advocate"?
No. 3: Should the city have a Handicapped and Disabled Advocate?
VOTE: No on both.
It would create an unnecessary and expensive (each means a budget of $100,000) layer in the city bureaucracy.
No. 4: Should the city borrow $55,090,000 to spend on capital purposes, such as streets and sanitation, buildings, parks, and transit?
VOTE: Yes
A routine request that is not extraordinary and goes to projects and service that are the backbone of city government. *