Some facts:
- The forum started with 6 non-Unit 4 employed community members in the audience; ended with 12
- The video was not available live, but is being rebroadcast at 4:pm for a few days on CGTV 5
- The video is now available for on-demand viewing at the Unit 4 Vimeo site (I will syndicate it soon in a smaller size)
- Meg Dickinson has two NG articles (before the forum, after the forum)
Some questions:
- If the population were really serious about this “race”, where would they go to learn more about each candidate and size them up?
- Where is the debate? Do folks not care, or is it that folks do care, but are rather busy at the moment?
I’ll provide more feedback once I watch the video.
Your turn for questions/comments/observations.
16 March 2013 9:19 am at 9:19 am
Was this the only forum being held? The evening before many people headed off somewhere for spring break was not ideal timing. There were parent-teacher conferences going on at least one school that early evening, also. Personally, I couldn’t go that evening and then be able to (health-wise) drive my kids a distance the next evening for their every-other-weekend thing. I will watch it and have questions. Can candidates answer questions online if people have them? And I don’t mean just directly to the person asking them, but, rather publicly displayed exchanges so others can view the candidates’ answers to questions.
16 March 2013 10:13 am at 10:13 am
Maybe Charles can provide opportunities for candidates to post responses to questions that citizens post on this blog, aka N-G questionnaire with more expansive questions and citizen provided.
As I keep mentioning, the upcoming new board will be deciding a lot of very expensive financial decisions that will affect the taypayers to a very large sum, potentially, not only in 2014, but also 2016. Along with what taxpayers are already contributing to Unit 4 via the 1% sales tax, WCB, and property taxes.