January 2012

Who is running for SF city council? We will know more this Friday

l3wis January 24, 2012 6Comments

Looks like Dean ‘No Goats’ Karsky is throwing his hat in the ring. He will make his second attempt at trying to actually garner a majority of the citizen’s votes.

Candidates can begin to take out petitions starting Friday. But any candidate can file a interest of organization and financial statement right now. Jamison and Karsky already have. I have also heard from both individuals, Anderson and Staggers that they are running. So that gives us three incumbents and one previous councilor.

There is a lot of things I dislike about our local government, but I really do enjoy covering campaigns, forums and debates.

UPDATE: Andy Traub sent me this yesterday;

I will be on KSOO Thursday from 4:30-5:30 to talk about what motivates people to run for office and what the people want from their representatives. Should be interesting. I may run, I may not. I just want to hear what people want before I run. I have a lot of respect  for how Rick and Ruth run their show so that’s why I am starting there. I’d love to start that discussion in the blogosphere as well so use this news however you want. I think Sioux Falls needs some new faces to represent the city. If I run it’ll be a very different kind of campaign, I promise.

I am assuming if Andy runs, it will be for the At-Large seat, since I think he lives in the Central District.

Did the SF city council break open meetings laws?

l3wis January 22, 2012 3Comments

Seems so, when they concocted two new positions in the city clerk’s office;

The council approved the new jobs last week. The items, however, were not on the council’s agenda. The council added them during the meeting and then voted to approve them, despite an ordinance that precludes the council from adding and then voting on matters unless it’s an emergency.

State law requires public bodies to post agendas at least 24 hours in advance. The council also was accused of violating the state’s open meetings law when it fired Owen.

Jen Holsen goes into more detail about the topic, and I highly recommend you read her analysis/commentary on the topic. (Both Friday posts).