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As I have attended Commission  meetings I have seen that a huge complaint is that many people simply cannot attend even though they care about issues and it builds distrust and lack of hope in our local government even though we have serious issues we need to be tackling together. 

I'm not sure if this petition will work but I think it at least leaves evidence at City Hall that we do care about the fact that our representation and voices are concertedly being ignored. I'm not necessarily going to City Hall because I think that they will make the changes. 

But I want the time change, from 2 pm to 5:30 pm, because I think we can meet each other there instead. Every time our commissioners and mayor fail to represent our people I want us to meet out in the lobby. But we can't even do that if the time is not accessible.

So the first step is to build an undeniable amount of people signing this petition in order to show our commissioners that we are the majority and we are not being represented. 

A Mayoral election is  coming up and while there's usually not much motive or drive to actually follow through on what they say they will do, if they want our votes they need to get something done and if they can't... they've shown us who they are and all the more reason for us to meet outside of City Hall or in the lobby of City Hall and make things happen anyways.

If you have any further questions you can reach out to my email.

Debra

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