Snowgate petition drive off to a strong start

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Stehly told me that her and her volunteer got about 130 signatures today. I also attended the Democratic Forum today and was able to get about 30 signatures with the help of a friend.

I see Stehly had someone watching her 🙂

The rumor circulating is that snowgates are never going to happen if it was up to the mayor or the city council. Just like the RR Relocation project, the testing areas are just smoke and mirrors.

I encourage everyone to sign the petition and vote for snowgates this Spring.

Let’s get this (snowgate) party started

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Kermit Staggers signing the snowgates petition at tonight’s meeting.

The city is already starting to put up ‘roadblocks’ or should I say ‘snowgates’. The mayor claims he will get snowgates implemented (even though he needs council approval). The city clerk thinks there will be no challengers in the school board election, so no need for an election (even though I have had four names given to me of people that are possibly running). The city attorney also wants to take a peek at the initiative language. Go for it! Former AG Mark Meierhenry helped edit the initiative language (not Pro-Bono), I would put Mark’s expertise of state law up against David Fiddle-Faddle any day of the week.

Stehly told me that 30 volunteers attended the meeting tonight, and many stepped up to help out in other ways.

Snowgate Petition Drive Meeting 7 PM Thursday Night

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The meeting will be at the Main DT Library in meeting room A. Organizer Theresa Stehly will be talking about the drive and asking for volunteers to help with it.

The Petition was filed today so they will need to garner enough signatures by February. She thinks she needs 4,800 VALID signatures so she will try to get at least 5,500.

I plan to post updates about the drive here on DaCola, and if you have any questions feel free to comment here or email me for more information.

Here is a copy of the initiative language;

MUNICIPAL INITIATIVE PETITION
IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SIOUX FALLS

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED qualified voters of the municipality of Sioux Falls, the state of South Dakota, petition that the following ordinance be submitted to the voters of that municipality for their approval or rejection pursuant to law.

The proposed ordinance in proper form is as follows:

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA TO MANDATE THE USE OF SNOW GATES FOR REMOVING SNOW FROM PUBLIC STREETS:

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA:

The City of Sioux Falls shall use snow gates or other devices to prevent snow, in an amount that prevents usual access, from being plowed or placed into driveways or their openings to public streets from and after November 1, 2013.  This section shall cover City employees and contract employees.  Snow gates are discretionary upon the declaration of a snow emergency on routes that have been declared snow emergency routes.