I attended this meeting in Harlem of the NYC Charter Revision Commission. There was a panel discussing about the use of date and reporting requirements. There are many reports that are not needed anymore. There should be more use of new technologies for presenting the information for official and public use.
The meeting was upended when protesters stormed the meeting and demanded the panel slow down and listen to the public. "The city charter, revisions, is going too fast. I mean, they aren't discussing anything except term limits," said Joseph Little of Community Voices Heard. The disruption was allowed to do their thing and left peacefully.
The next panel discussed the consolidation of the many, around 12, Administration Justice Tribunals. This change would allow the standardization of procedures, use of judges, and putting the tribunals in each of the five boroughs under The Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH).
Then the chairman gave dates for the next meetings. The most important date was 8/12/2010, the date the commission will decide which items will go on the November 2010 ballot.
Then the meeting was opened to the general public. Some of the topics the public spoke about was Term Limits, Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), Community Boards: Land Use, Budgets, Elected members not Appointed, and the lack of City Planners on the boards.
This is Dr. Fulani's comments about this commissions' operations.
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As I have complained earlier, Dr. Fulani spoke about the commission trying to do what is the responsibility of community organizers and the voting public, educate and have a chance to express their choices at the voting booth, now an optical scan machine.
Michael H. Drucker
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