Comment 103322

By ItJustIs (registered) | Posted July 21, 2014 at 09:11:29

"What does it take to get anything done in Hamilton?"

Make sure the impetus for an issue comes from residents, not Council, or Councillors. And by 'residents', I mean an identifiable consensus across the board.

"Councillor Brian McHattie is trying to break the conversion logjam with an all-wards citizens panel on two-way conversion to "pull back on the rhetoric"

Such a panel CANNOT be generated or overseen by anything attached to Council. If it's a City initiative, ultimately its efforts will be controlled and co-opted. If not, in the end, patronized. How proceedings (in all situations) are framed is paramount. (Which is why I laugh at 'community meetings/councils' with a Councillor as the Chair.) Continued waiting with crossed-fingers, hoping against hope that something will finally be done by Council is, according to 'evidence-based reasoning', folly.

Comment edited by ItJustIs on 2014-07-21 09:14:13

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