The City Commission recently approved a citizen survey seeking input about the policies and priorities you want for Winter Park. You can respond to the survey until November 21, 2008 using this link and the password mailed to you by the city: http://www.kerr-downs.com/websurvey/WinterPark/. Call the City at 407-599-3235 if you misplaced your password. I offer comments on selected items from the questionnaire below. I thought it important that every citizen have the benefit of important context before filling out the survey. Running a city is not about acting on feelings. Is it about managing a $50,000,000 city operation and $100,000,000…
Citizen Survey – Honest and Unbiased?
Click here for the full text of the October 2008 Citizen Survey approved by the Winter Park City Commission. One citizen provided these comments about the survey to the City Commission: “We just did the ‘survey.’ What a waste of taxpayer dollars in that much of it is worded to be the equivalent of a push poll. Anyone that paid attention in high school freshman science knows you do not ask compound questions and that you must offer a full range of responses not just shades of the same answer. Whoever participated in spending our tax dollars on this should…
Commuter Rail Update – Fall 2008
(Originally sent to the Winter Park City Commission September 18, 2008) (Commissioner Beth Dillaha attempted to terminate the commuter rail agreement with Orange County on January 26, 2009 (pg 10). The vote failed 3 to 2.) The facts and circumstances included here relating to the commuter rail agreement between the City of Winter Park and Orange County have been reviewed for accuracy with the Winter Park City Manager. The opinions expressed here are of course mine and mine alone. Commissioner Beth Dillaha’s commuter rail presentation at the September 8, 2008 City Commission meeting re-addressed known risks and possible costs associated…