Monday, April 26, 2021

Moran and Maio instigate undoing Sarasota's single member districts

Board of Sarasota County Commissioners


. . . the Sarasota County commissioners this week launched an initiative that could lead to the removal of the Single-Member Districts voting system from the Sarasota County Charter.

On a motion by Commissioner Michael Moran, seconded by Chair Alan Maio, the board members voted unanimously to ask the county’s Charter Review Board “to revisit” the Single-Member Districts Charter amendment that won voter approval on the November 2018 General Election ballot.

The next Charter Review Board meeting has been set for May 19, the county website says. It is to begin at 6 p.m. at the county’s Robert L. Anderson Administration Center, located at 4000 S. Tamiami Trail in Venice.  Sarasota News Leader April 22, 2021.


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Editor:

The same overwhelming majority of Sarasota County citizens who voted to institute Single Member Districts will rise up again to defeat any effort to go back to the at-large system.  If Commissioner Moran is determined to spend our taxpayer money in an effort to undo something we taxpayers voted to do, then it must be asked: whom does he represent?  It surely isn’t the majority of voters in Sarasota County!

William C. Zoller
6375 McKown Road
Sarasota, FL 34240

“It sounds kind of insulting to say [county citizens] didn’t know what they were voting for." -- County Commissioner Nancy Detert 


“Single Member Districts for electing Sarasota County Commissioners passed resoundingly by voters of all political parties in a 2018 ballot amendment (59.84% vs. 40.16% NO) to make our County Commissioners more accountable to their constituents." - Kindra Muntz.


History of Single Member Districts in Sarasota County, Florida



“We’re able to work together,” Ziegler said of himself and his colleagues on the board. “I can’t say that’ll be the case years down the road.”  




Question: Do the county commissioners approve every development, no matter how much a proposal is opposed by residents?

A few days ago, as I approached that intersection, traffic was backed up at least a mile in every direction. Once the massive hotel and retail outlets are squeezed into the Siesta Promenade, I would hate to have to evacuate the key in an emergency.

What are the duties of county commissioners anyway, and whom do they serve?  James Medin, LTE from Herald Tribune

 

1 comment:

  1. These globalists are exhausting.
    Perhaps 2021 needs to be the year of the mass de-registering from the Republican and Democratic parties, and bring forth the rise of the NPA candidate. Let's kick these lifelong political whores to the curb and start electing bright people with no ties to politics. We will need our own people's PAC - End the Corruption Now!

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