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The election on March 2 certainly proved that our citizens are becoming less apathetic to the goings on at City Hall and quite cognizant of the actions of those elected.

It’s bittersweet that the man who for the past year or so did the most to raise the awareness of the electorate regarding our city government through his Talk Roswell Action Committee, failed in his bid for the Ward II council seat. My hat is off to Billy Wood. His election loss was a bitter pill to swallow but I know he takes pride and solace in the sweet success of his efforts to wake up the voters.

Congratulations to our new mayor and councilors.

Keep a strong memory about the day that “we the people” began to take back Roswell.

You have a job to do representing us, by doing what’s best for the folks in your ward as well as the city of Roswell. The hubris demonstrated by your predecessors served them poorly. Please don’t fall into that trap.

For those who now remain in office; please take note: it’s neither a career nor a right. It’s a privilege that can be revoked on a certain Tuesday in March.

Respectfully,
Sonny Schaeffer
Roswell, NM
]]> baw@nospam.com (Billy Wood) Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:51:27 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.41.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.40.7 Editor,

Well, true to their word, the new Mayor and new Councilors didn't allow their first Council meeting to become "business as usual".

Rather than let several items be voted on together in a consent agenda, Councilor McWilliams pulled those items in order to ask questions and have each one explained to himself and the citizens in attendance.  He did a lot of research and called administrators to the podium to explain each one before a vote was taken.  The citizens of Roswell could actually understand and follow the process, instead of those items just being quickly run through and then voted on.

Councilor McWilliams also got in touch with a Leadership Class presenter (don't remember the name), who agreed to come to Roswell to present a class, rather than the Councilors and Mayor all going to another city (using taxpayer money, if I'm not mistaken) for other classes.  I thought that was great - of course, there were some Councilors who didn't feel the same way.  We taxpayers like it when our money is used wisely.
 

Councilor Huckabee participated with relevant questions and comments and Mayor Jurney did a great job keeping it all together with a lot of patience and a bit of humor.

Several people addressed the Council with comments and concerns and a couple were even allowed to go over their allotted three minute speaking time!

I have to say that it was the most interesting City Council meeting I have attended so far. 

Way to go, newbies - keep up the good work!!

Submitted by Toni Wiebenga]]> toni@nospam.com (Toni Wiebenga) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:01:08 -0500 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.40.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.30.7
I know absolutely nothing about governing a city, but I do know right from wrong.

When the City Council raids the water fund and uses millions of dollars for non-water related projects, causing a shortage in the fund; that's wrong.]]> toni@nospam.com (Toni Wiebenga) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:40:36 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.30.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.28.7
At one time, there was plenty of money in the water fund.  Much of that money was transferred out for various things - some water related and some not.]]> toni@nospam.com (Toni Wiebenga) Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:37:11 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.28.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.27.7 toni@nospam.com (Toni Wiebenga) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:24:41 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.27.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.19.7 team@nospam.com (TRC Forum) Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:07:09 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.19.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.15.7 team@nospam.com (TRC Forum) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:46:49 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.15.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.12.7 I would like to thank Hetor Pineda (a forum member) for his letter to the editor. It says how many of the citizens of this community feel. Keep the pressure on the city. Don't let them or the citizens forget about this injustice.]]> team@nospam.com (TRC Forum) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:00:28 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.12.7 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.10.7 baw@nospam.com (Billy Wood) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:56:01 -0400 http://talkroswell.org/news.php?item.10.7