Mayor Kamei, Vice Mayor Ramos, and members of the City Council,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on item 4.3: Amendment of Section 11 of City Council Policy A-13.
We support this amendment and ask for your vote of approval. It is in the public interest to ensure that any council member who wants his or her vote on a council matter changed must do so in a timely fashion. Advocacy groups such as ours often spend much time rallying public support for an issue before approaching the council with our recommendations. Having a matter brought back months later for a new vote diminishes the public’s ability to effectively organize and present its views to the council. Furthermore, all public stakeholders deserve the certainty that a strict time limit on council vote changes provides.
Thank you for considering our views.
Robert Cox, Maureen Blando, Peter Spitzer, Muriel Sivyer-Lee, Jerry Steach, Julia Ha, Nazanin Dashtara, Chuck Muir, Hala Alshahwany, Leslie Friedman, David and Carol Lewis, Lorrie Wormald, and Nancy Stuhr
For the Steering Committee of Livable Mountain View
