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4-26-2022
4-26-2022
4-26-2022
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4-26-2022
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Your Vote is Your Voice - We Need Resident-Friendly Commissioners
Whether it’s building heights and densities, noise, trees, or traffic, why do the policies our city commissioners have been adopting for the last 18 months seem designed to destroy the charm, character, and natural beauty that made each of us choose this as our home?
Our area is growing and will continue to grow. Thoughtful growth is good. But this growth we’re experiencing is unbridled.
We've seen residents from all over the city with a host of quality-of-life issues which impact the livability of Sarasota ask the city to take their concerns into account when making policy. Almost every time, rather than expressing empathy for or interest in the citizens' issues, the livability issues stemming from unconstrained growth and conflicting land uses are deflected, dismissed, ignored, or ridiculed.
We—their constituents—have been called “an administrative burden” and “those little people” by one commissioner (initials HB).
If you want to prevent further displacement of all that makes Sarasota so appealing, please pay close attention to the candidates for our local offices, and demand that candidates articulate a resident-friendly philosophy if they want to win your support. Your vote is your voice, and our city's future is at stake.
Submitted by:
Shirl Gauthier, Chair
CityPAC
Your Vote is Your Voice - We Need Resident-Friendly Commissioners
Whether it’s building heights and densities, noise, trees, or traffic, why do the policies our city commissioners have been adopting for the last 18 months seem designed to destroy the charm, character, and natural beauty that made each of us choose this as our home?
Our area is growing and will continue to grow. Thoughtful growth is good. But this growth we’re experiencing is unbridled.
We've seen residents from all over the city with a host of quality-of-life issues which impact the livability of Sarasota ask the city to take their concerns into account when making policy. Almost every time, rather than expressing empathy for or interest in the citizens' issues, the livability issues stemming from unconstrained growth and conflicting land uses are deflected, dismissed, ignored, or ridiculed.
We—their constituents—have been called “an administrative burden” and “those little people” by one commissioner (initials HB).
If you want to prevent further displacement of all that makes Sarasota so appealing, please pay close attention to the candidates for our local offices, and demand that candidates articulate a resident-friendly philosophy if they want to win your support. Your vote is your voice, and our city's future is at stake.
Submitted by:
Shirl Gauthier, Chair
CityPAC
Your Vote is Your Voice - We Need Resident-Friendly Commissioners
Whether it’s building heights and densities, noise, trees, or traffic, why do the policies our city commissioners have been adopting for the last 18 months seem designed to destroy the charm, character, and natural beauty that made each of us choose this as our home?
Our area is growing and will continue to grow. Thoughtful growth is good. But this growth we’re experiencing is unbridled.
We've seen residents from all over the city with a host of quality-of-life issues which impact the livability of Sarasota ask the city to take their concerns into account when making policy. Almost every time, rather than expressing empathy for or interest in the citizens' issues, the livability issues stemming from unconstrained growth and conflicting land uses are deflected, dismissed, ignored, or ridiculed.
We—their constituents—have been called “an administrative burden” and “those little people” by one commissioner (initials HB).
If you want to prevent further displacement of all that makes Sarasota so appealing, please pay close attention to the candidates for our local offices, and demand that candidates articulate a resident-friendly philosophy if they want to win your support. Your vote is your voice, and our city's future is at stake.
Submitted by:
Shirl Gauthier, Chair
CityPAC
Your Vote is Your Voice - We Need Resident-Friendly Commissioners
Whether it’s building heights and densities, noise, trees, or traffic, why do the policies our city commissioners have been adopting for the last 18 months seem designed to destroy the charm, character, and natural beauty that made each of us choose this as our home?
Our area is growing and will continue to grow. Thoughtful growth is good. But this growth we’re experiencing is unbridled.
We've seen residents from all over the city with a host of quality-of-life issues which impact the livability of Sarasota ask the city to take their concerns into account when making policy. Almost every time, rather than expressing empathy for or interest in the citizens' issues, the livability issues stemming from unconstrained growth and conflicting land uses are deflected, dismissed, ignored, or ridiculed.
We—their constituents—have been called “an administrative burden” and “those little people” by one commissioner (initials HB).
If you want to prevent further displacement of all that makes Sarasota so appealing, please pay close attention to the candidates for our local offices, and demand that candidates articulate a resident-friendly philosophy if they want to win your support. Your vote is your voice, and our city's future is at stake.
Submitted by:
Shirl Gauthier, Chair
CityPAC
Your Vote is Your Voice - We Need Resident-Friendly Commissioners
Whether it’s building heights and densities, noise, trees, or traffic, why do the policies our city commissioners have been adopting for the last 18 months seem designed to destroy the charm, character, and natural beauty that made each of us choose this as our home?
Our area is growing and will continue to grow. Thoughtful growth is good. But this growth we’re experiencing is unbridled.
We've seen residents from all over the city with a host of quality-of-life issues which impact the livability of Sarasota ask the city to take their concerns into account when making policy. Almost every time, rather than expressing empathy for or interest in the citizens' issues, the livability issues stemming from unconstrained growth and conflicting land uses are deflected, dismissed, ignored, or ridiculed.
We—their constituents—have been called “an administrative burden” and “those little people” by one commissioner (initials HB).
If you want to prevent further displacement of all that makes Sarasota so appealing, please pay close attention to the candidates for our local offices, and demand that candidates articulate a resident-friendly philosophy if they want to win your support. Your vote is your voice, and our city's future is at stake.
Submitted by:
Shirl Gauthier, Chair
CityPAC
Links
Standards of Conduct for Elected Officials
1/24/22 Charter Review Board Meeting
Video Clip 6:22:57 to 6:26:37
On January 24, 2022, CityPAC Chair, Shirl Gauthier spoke as a private citizen at the Charter Review Committee with comments urging an amendment to the city charter to incorporate standards of conduct and a process for resolving misconduct by city officials. See video clip 6:22:57 tp 6:26:37 of the 3-minute presentation and or the PDF of slightly longer written comments provided to the Committee for the record. Success! The committee voted 5-2 in favor of tasking city staff to draft the charter amendment language. The dissenting Committee members were Dan Claremont and Crystal Bailey, the two members appointed by Hagen Brody.
Thorpe Park Saved
1/18/22 Charter Review Board Meeting
Video Clip 2:20:41 to 2:22:09
CityPAC Chair, Shirl Gauthier and Steering Committee Member, Janet Solomon presented comments as private citizens on the Thorpe Park agenda item. They and over 20 other citizens spoke in favor of keeping the park for the public rather than selling a significant portion of it to a developer for $275,000 to turn it into a food court. The Commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of keeping the park for the public. The dissenting Commissioner was Mayor Erik Arroyo.
Challenges of the Strong Mayor Form of Government