Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Please note that we have added the Economic Agreement that was passed at the November 9th Service Committee meeting to city council for their action on November 21st. The vote was 2-1 in favor of passing this version. Riggs and Hammond voted yea and Hackworth voted nay.

Please note that we have also added the version of the Economic Agreement with the changes recommended by the city staff including the City Manager and City Development Director. These changes came as a result of repeated citizen requests for professional staff intervention and repeated council requests for professional staff involvement. These changes also came as a result of Service Committee?’s failure to pass the agreement out of committee last month because the Service Committee members were uncomfortable that staff hadn?’t become engaged in the development of the agreement. According to the minutes of the October Service meeting and the results of the vote this month, apparently those same people requesting staff involvement have now rejected the changes and discounted the expertise offered by the City Manager and City Development Director, each of whom have over two decades apiece of experience in these matters.

Please take the time to read these documents and decide for yourself if you are satisfied that the majority of City Council is acting in the best interest of the city of Pickerington and her 13,000 residents.

Either way you decide, please go to the city council meeting next Tuesday, November 21st and make your views heard. Pease do not continue to bury your head in the sand and hope this all turns out well. This is a 30 year commitment for us and our children and our grandchildren.

Your voices need to be heard.


By webmaster

Hey, Thanks!

Webmaster,

Thanks you for getting this information out to the public. I think this site is gaining back soe of the value it was losing. Don't listen to the naysayers. If I recall from talk to a webmaster past, probably 90% of the traffic on this site is readers only. Few people post. Looking at your hit report tells me you are doing something right.

Posting of meeting minutes

I understand the practice of making numerous postings to puch topics off the front page that you no longer want to see there. It is not a new, but rather old practice.

That being said, if you want meeting minutes posted, you can send them to the PATA email and they will get posted to the left. Then you can refer to them in your posting and people can read them without having to click on link after link.

If they are sent in a MS Word format they can be converted and posted to the PDF section or if you provide the link they can be added to the Hotlinks section and then you can make a posting to refer to them.

Just an offer.

By webmaster

poster numbers are up

In the past the numbers of posters on the site were fewer, and the readers many, say since 2000 until 2004, Since 2004 there has been a dramatic uptick in registered posters, I say registered, that leads me to believe they are posting. There are times when the diveregence of the postings makes me beleive that many people input, but there are other times when it seems like just a few shouting at each other.

The underlying fact is this site is very well read, in fact it is the number one site in hits on the whole neighborhood link system nationwide.

That proves that dropping pebbles into this pond creates ripples that last for a very long time.

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