Time to get to work!
Truth of the matter here is this: when the survey (questionnaire) was sent out, it was sent to the residents - all the property owners in the officially boundaried neighborhood area, all of the residents, who were not owners, all merchants.
there were over one thousand of these sent out to include all f these individuals.
as you may know, there was a thirty six percent return on the questionnaires.
this gave us a pretty good picture of the support for our proposal.
and, we spent grant money, and almost all of our treasury money to comply with the process that the city laid out for us to follow.
Phyllis McKee and Doug Robertson, property owners in the Fairhaven neighborhood, decided that they would get involved in the neighborhood plan update just then getting restarted, and encouraged other merchants and property owners to get involved.
Next, they joined Fairhaven Neighbors officially, and Doug Robertson proposed himself as a FN Board candidate.
he lost by one vote, after a first vote resulted in a tie.
During this same time period, unknown to any of the FN board, Doug Robertson filed papers with the state to incorporate another group called the Fairhaven Neighbors Association, which he, Phyllis McKee, and Fred Haskell hoped would become the "officially recognized" (by COB) as the representative neighborhood organization.
Meanwhile, Phyllis McKee, the putative head of Fairhaven Merchants group, collected from these merchants signatures from 90 of them, to oppose the process that we were following since last November. The attacks on the FN proposal have been completely orchestrated: very similar to the great republican wurlitzer, the same exact talking points were always raised in public forums, and in criticizing the process that the proposal was following, rather than the substance of it.
Doug Robertson, as an attorney, knows how to apply legalistic leverage to the city departments, and has done so with appeals and lawsuits.
more issues raised by the "requirement" by the COB for us to "revise" the neighborhood corporate bylaws, so that all property owners and merchants get to be voting members of the neighborhood. the concept that one votes where one lives, and one man, one vote are being trumped by this demand.
Our neighborhood organization is being hijacked by special interest groups, people.
do you hear me?
we will get exactly what we fight for.
and if we do not organize and fight, we will deserve to get whatever Fred and Doug and Phyllis decide is good for us.
I am not into this to be a dick.
we have not worked for this neighborhood for YEARS (ok, some years, not so hard) to throw this over because we're too lazy to get off our collective asses and get to work.
but YOU ALL decide what you want.
you have a hard working, dynamic board right now. with brilliant ideas.
If we cannot elect friendly council members, who understand neighborhood issues, and who will be willing to work on these issues with us, we are screwed.
NOW is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party.
and there is a meeting tonight at the Fairhaven Park pavilion at 7PM
there were over one thousand of these sent out to include all f these individuals.
as you may know, there was a thirty six percent return on the questionnaires.
this gave us a pretty good picture of the support for our proposal.
and, we spent grant money, and almost all of our treasury money to comply with the process that the city laid out for us to follow.
Phyllis McKee and Doug Robertson, property owners in the Fairhaven neighborhood, decided that they would get involved in the neighborhood plan update just then getting restarted, and encouraged other merchants and property owners to get involved.
Next, they joined Fairhaven Neighbors officially, and Doug Robertson proposed himself as a FN Board candidate.
he lost by one vote, after a first vote resulted in a tie.
During this same time period, unknown to any of the FN board, Doug Robertson filed papers with the state to incorporate another group called the Fairhaven Neighbors Association, which he, Phyllis McKee, and Fred Haskell hoped would become the "officially recognized" (by COB) as the representative neighborhood organization.
Meanwhile, Phyllis McKee, the putative head of Fairhaven Merchants group, collected from these merchants signatures from 90 of them, to oppose the process that we were following since last November. The attacks on the FN proposal have been completely orchestrated: very similar to the great republican wurlitzer, the same exact talking points were always raised in public forums, and in criticizing the process that the proposal was following, rather than the substance of it.
Doug Robertson, as an attorney, knows how to apply legalistic leverage to the city departments, and has done so with appeals and lawsuits.
more issues raised by the "requirement" by the COB for us to "revise" the neighborhood corporate bylaws, so that all property owners and merchants get to be voting members of the neighborhood. the concept that one votes where one lives, and one man, one vote are being trumped by this demand.
Our neighborhood organization is being hijacked by special interest groups, people.
do you hear me?
we will get exactly what we fight for.
and if we do not organize and fight, we will deserve to get whatever Fred and Doug and Phyllis decide is good for us.
I am not into this to be a dick.
we have not worked for this neighborhood for YEARS (ok, some years, not so hard) to throw this over because we're too lazy to get off our collective asses and get to work.
but YOU ALL decide what you want.
you have a hard working, dynamic board right now. with brilliant ideas.
If we cannot elect friendly council members, who understand neighborhood issues, and who will be willing to work on these issues with us, we are screwed.
NOW is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party.
and there is a meeting tonight at the Fairhaven Park pavilion at 7PM
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