Three Votes for Four Hundred Thousand

3 to 5 DougCo

Aug 14

1 min read

Updated: Aug 29

On a three-member board, it takes only two votes and those two votes can do almost anything they want. Two.

Where the road goes: two votes.

What the budget funds: two votes.

How a piece of land gets used, what gets built next to your subdivision, whether a project lives or dies: two votes.

Not the considered majority of a deliberative body. Two neighbors who happen to agree on a Tuesday.

I believe that arrangement is wrong.

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