Staff has two recommendations.
First, continue to pursue eminent domain.
DIRECT the STAFF to stop their pursuit of eminent domain and find ANOTHER way to build flood protection.
If things go as scheduled today, we will NOT even see the Council vote on each of these homes. Why did the Mayor include this on the consent agenda? How did she know how each member felt about these homes? What happened to open meetings? Does the Council let the Mayor make these decisions?
Citizens, we better start paying attention, if you aren’t already. Tiffany is not the CEO of Cedar Rapids!
- How did Martin Hoeger vote?
- How did Tyler Olson vote?
- How did Ann Poe vote?
- How did Patrick Loeffler vote?
- How did Ashley Vanorny vote?
- How did Scott Overland vote?
- How did Dale Todd vote?
- How did Scott Olson vote?
This is something we not only need to know, common decency says have the courage to show how you voted!
The decision was made according to the paperwork we got from 2008 a year BEFORE the actual neighborhood planning process took place!
Long before ANY of these people were on the council.