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Posts from ‘July, 2008’

City Council “agenda setting”

City Council’s long-awaited “agenda setting” retreat (the sequel to the abandoned “visioning” process) is tomorrow morning (Saturday, July 19) from 8 am to 1 pm, at the Municipal Services Center.
Like all City Council meetings and work sessions, this is a public meeting; I have no idea how much “public” we will see.
We’ve been getting a [...]

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Consideration of red-light camera contract delayed to August

If you were hoping the red-light camera issue would be resolved soon (one way or the other) so that other public concerns could get attention, you will need to wait another month. City staff does not have a proposed contract ready for City Council consideration this month, so the next vote on the subject is [...]

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A “paper trail” for early voting

Wow, I’ve fallen way behind here…
One piece of recent good news is the report that Anderson and Roane Counties, along with two other East Tennessee counties, will be using optical-scan voting machines for early voting this year. The optical scan system uses electronic technology to record votes, but because voters mark their choices on paper, [...]

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