TTTT Takeaway Activism and Notes – June 2013
08/20/2013 Leave a comment
The Meeting
At our June TTTT, we were joined by Cape Girardeau city council members Wayne Bowen and Trent Summers. They presented information about the city’s financial health, plans for growth, and tax issues. They also took suggestions from the audience for how to better the city:
Spending:
- Stop light at Sprigg and New Madrid
- River-side wall development / Boardwalk
- Viewing stand to look over the wall when river is up
- Locally grown foods at the schools
- Christmas get-the-heck-out-of-St-Louis advertising / weekend (CVB)
- GPS Devices in the Fleet
- Yellow flashing left-turn signals
- Improve intersection / roadway in front of Wal-Mart / Sam’s
Non-Spending
- Improve State labor laws (prevailing wage) allowing cities to better privatize various operations
- Think further ahead when creating new roads
- Pension reform? Done in 2004. More?
- Volunteer Furloughs
- City property advertising revenue
- Leased land for electronic billboards
- Cellphone towers
- Elimination of fee waivers
- Stop charging at Shawnee
- Changes to first-responder / ambulance service to improve ambulance response time
- Leasing vehicles for savings
- Increase number of users per vehicle
- Vendor evaluation project
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Takeaway Activism
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TA1 – Exercise Self-Governance:
There are lobbyists for unions; lobbyists for banks; lobbyists for lawyers; lobbyists for river smelt; lobbyists for death row murderers; lobbyists for sports stadiums.
Who’s lobbying for you and me?
The first step in the process to increase your self-governance is to become active. To guide our representatives to enact legislation and policy that increases our freedom and our self-governance, we must take part in the process. And, to take part in the process, we need to be involved at the time and location that the process is taking place.
To that end, we asked each Third Tuesday Tea Time attendee to take part in at least one meeting of a local governing body.
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Public Meetings – Attend / Take Notes / Report
| Wed | 6/19 | 7:00pm | SEMO10 Meeting |
| Thu | 6/20 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Thu | 6/20 | 6:30pm | Pachyderm Club |
| Sun | 6/23 | 5:00pm | CCTP Steering Committee – Reschedule |
| Mon | 6/24 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Mon | 6/24 | 6:30pm | Heartland Citizens For Education Awareness |
| Thu | 6/27 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Thu | 6/27 | 6:00pm | CCTP Steering Committee |
| Mon | 7/1 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Mon | 7/1 | 5:00pm | Cape City Council |
| Mon | 7/1 | 5:30pm | Scott County Republicans |
| Mon | 7/1 | 7:00pm | Jackson City Council |
| Thu | 7/4 | 10:00am |
CCTP Dunk A Tea Bag / Jackson City Park |
| Fri | 7/5 | 12:00pm | NO Republican Women’s Club Meeting |
| Mon | 7/8 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Mon | 7/8 | 7:00pm | Republican Central Committee Meeting |
| Tue | 7/9 | 7:00pm | Jackson School Board |
| Wed | 7/10 | 7:00pm | Cape Planning & Zoning |
| Wed | 7/10 | 7:00pm | Jackson Planning & Zoning |
| Thu | 7/11 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Thu | 7/11 | 6:00pm | CCTP Steering Committee |
| Fri | 7/12 | 12:00pm | Republican Women’s Club Meeting |
| Mon | 7/15 | 9:00am | County Commission |
| Mon | 7/15 | 5:00pm | Cape City Council |
| Mon | 7/15 | 7:00pm | Jackson City Council |
| Tue | 7/16 | 6:30pm | CCTP Third Tuesday Tea Time |
| Thu | 7/18 | 5:00pm | Center for Self-Governance Training – Lvl1 Pt1 |
| Fri | 7/19 | 5:00pm | Center for Self-Governance Training – Lvl1 Pt2 |
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