Miami Dade charter change petition drives are hampered hugely by one thing: They require that the petition gatherer to be notarized. Not the people, the gatherer. Not so in State petitions. No one is notarized. This puts an unfair hurdle on the backs of volunteer gatherers that do not have a notary at their disposal.
The Charter Review Committee is the Citizen's great hope to provide our citizenry a chance to be protected. Our Charter is there to protect the governed and not the governing. Lamentably, very often our Board Of County Commission does not see this quite like the Mayor and most of our community. We live in a Democracy, and the right to disagree on issues is fundamental, but when attempts are made by our governing body to silence us blatantly quash our rights, this is bad.
Also, Genius, I tend to disagree with you on the notary requirement. I think a sworn statement is a proper tool to intimidate any fraudsters from filling out bogus signature sheets to cash in.
then why don't they need it on the state level jolly???why should our rules be more stringent than any other county or state for that matter??? We have the home rule charter based on citizen participation. You should read it sometime.
Draw your own conclusions. Hit on image to read it.
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We need to choose our own method of Charter Amendment, we cannot have the Commission do it. It is a conflict of interest!
Cheers to the Charter Review Committee.
Miami Dade charter change petition drives are hampered hugely by one thing: They require that the petition gatherer to be notarized. Not the people, the gatherer. Not so in State petitions. No one is notarized. This puts an unfair hurdle on the backs of volunteer gatherers that do not have a notary at their disposal.
The Charter Review Committee is the Citizen's great hope to provide our citizenry a chance to be protected. Our Charter is there to protect the governed and not the governing. Lamentably, very often our Board Of County Commission does not see this quite like the Mayor and most of our community. We live in a Democracy, and the right to disagree on issues is fundamental, but when attempts are made by our governing body to silence us blatantly quash our rights, this is bad.
yes ned but what do you suppose we should do about it....
Vote the bums out.
Diaz and the others will push for change!
Also, Genius, I tend to disagree with you on the notary requirement. I think a sworn statement is a proper tool to intimidate any fraudsters from filling out bogus signature sheets to cash in.
then why don't they need it on the state level jolly???why should our rules be more stringent than any other county or state for that matter??? We have the home rule charter based on citizen participation. You should read it sometime.
Hey Genius, we're on the same team here, I think . . . LOL!
Let's read it together sometime.
The Jolly
I'm sure the County Charter reads like a Grisham novel.
The County has the charter available in a couple different spots. One is on the Charter Review web page as a PDF file:
http://www.miamidade.gov/charterreview/charter.asp
The other is by looking at the Miami-Dade Code - available from several different sections of the County site.
The Home Rule Charter is Part I of the County Code.
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