Last night at the Flower Mound Town Council Meeting, Ginger Simonson, co-founder of the Flower Mound Cares Petition Drive asked the Town Council to make a motion to put the petition initiative on the May 8th ballot. The initiative calls for a 180 day moratorium for any acceptance and processing of a SUP (special use permit) for Centralized Collection Facilities, pipelines, gas gathering and compression stations. Ms. Simonson stated by putting it on the May 8th ballot, the town would save the cost of special election. The petition has passed the 5% signature threshold required in the Town Charter to submit for a vote of the people. The Flower Mound Cares petition has over 50% of the signatures needed to call for a special election.
Mayor Smith Claims no knowledge of the petition drive despite the fact that it was announced during the February 15th meeting. It was also included in the minutes section of last night's town council packet. Those of you who missed the meeting can see Mayor Smith's comments from last night's meeting here: link to video
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5 comments:
What is the punishment for perjury?
I also question if there isn't something here for an ethics review. She is not allowed to, "Knowingly perform or refuse to perform any act in order to deliberately hinder the execution and implementation of any town ordinances, rules or regulations or the achievement of official town programs;" We followed procedures. She did not. The town secretary has "up to 10 days" to verify signatures. Doesn't mean she has to have 10 days in order for her to start verifying. I feel that the mayor did not do her job and behaved unethically in hindering our rights to the petition process because of her personal interest in the gas industry.
Oh please, this is becoming a joke!! You have lost my support and vote for "NFL"
Sadly bending the rules seems to be the norm in this town.
From the variances we grant to gas companies to town representatives with obvious conflicts influencing legislation to obvious abuse of power by our Mayor.
FloMo needs change.... starting with the Mayor.
Excellent. Now we need to move forward and take full advantage of the resources we have. The town and LISD should negotiate mineral leases for their properties and use the proceeds to reduce our property taxes. That way, all the citizens of FM will benefit from the natural gas reserves.
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