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Feb 15, 2008 6:34 - 1 Comment
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While this appears in the latest Weekend To Weekend, it is also worth a quick mention on its own:
First-term council member Piotr Gajewski has announced he will hold an open Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, February 21, 2008, 8:00-10:00 p.m. at the Rockville City Hall.
The purpose of the meeting, according to the press release, is to discuss the “major issues facing the City, including the proposed new courthouse, Town Center parking, the imminent roll out of the new trash system, and other issues of importance to Rockville Citizens.” (Those are my links, not Gajewski’s.)
Questions? Contact the council member directly.
For my own part, I encourage other members of the Mayor and Council to hold similar meetings. While it is important to be accessible as a group, it also seems useful to have forums like this in which to get to know individual members of Our Fair City’s government.
(Image from Gajewski campaign website — because it was a larger photo than the one on the City’s site.)
While I agree it is important to seek citizen input on critical issues, I don’t agree that Mr. Gajewski should be having this meeting at City Hall. Mayor and Council meetings scheduled for this Monday (19th) and the following (25th) have been cancelled because of “insufficient business”. It seems to me this affords the perfect opportunity to have a “Town Hall” kind of meeting involving all the mayor and council…maybe even some staff members. >
I’d like to know if Mr. Gajewski approached his fellow council members, asking if they would be interested in participating in such a forum. If he is acting on his own, I think he should conduct his meeting someplace other than City Hall, and at his own expense. While I am sure his intentions are good, some might see this, dare I say it, as grandstanding.