Election Night Party

Saturday evening, May 9th, starting at 7pm, we are going to have a post election gathering at The Z Grill on 1171, next to Sprouts. Come and join us for what we hope will be a victory celebration. More details to follow, but mark it on your calendar. Vote, then party.

WAY TO GO

I just want to personally thank everyone one of you that took the time to show up at tonight's Town Council Meeting. It had a major impact and I hope that you will respond in the same manner next time such an important issue will be on the agenda.

Before I call it a night I just want to remind everyone that the StopMorriss6 group is not opposed to the town's effort of securing "free" money for our Town (even though it is tax dollars anyway you want to look at it). All we were stating is that the Council has not been transparent in their process and could have done a much better job of keeping us informed. No one can expect individual residents to have the knowledge of how all these processes work.

I feel that asking the Council to delay this issue, by tableing it, until the new Council was elected was a reasonable request - You are talking 10 days. They would have still had time to decide on this prior the Spinks project deadline.

Town Manager Jefferson did put some light on the fact that the agreement can be re-negotiated so we must continue to ensure that our concerns are heard.

Bottom line. Multiple residents made requests of the Town Council to defer this decision until the new Council is in place. Tonight's Town Council voted to accept the funds tonight.

Good Night and Good Luck.

Kim & Holly Berg's Personal Endorsement.

In light of the fact of the agenda for tomorrow's Town Council meeting, it is more important than ever that we get the right candidates elected. Not only for the Morriss/Gerault expansion, but ALL of the issues that are best for ALL of the citizens of Flower Mound.

Since the next week could be very heated here on the blog, we have suspended the ability to post comments as

anonymous

. If you have something to say about a candidate or a view that differs from mine and others here in the stopmorris6 group, I urge you to simply sign up with a google account. This doesn't mean you have to use your full name or disclose personal information, it just puts an identity to your thoughts. I am glad we chose to allow

anonymous

postings up to this point and we will resume that practice after the election is over.

Holly and I are endorsing Steve Lyda, Bob Butler, and Tom Hayden for Town Council for the reasons stated above. Please get out and vote monday for Lyda, Butler and Hayden.

SHAME ON YOU TOWN COUNCIL

I am sitting here reading the agenda for Monday's Town Council meeting. Our Town Council will be voting on some "non-controversial" and "houskeeping" issues. One of the 14 issues is the Advance Funding Agreement with The State of Texas, acting by and through TxDot, for funding of several projects including the widening of Morris Road/Gerault.

"Non-controversial"????

Has our council NOT heard anything we've said the last few months? If this is a non-controversial issue then you should have no problem leaving this vote to the New Town Council. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!

Why did they send it back to the transportation commission for public hearing?

It is obvious that this Town Council has no regard for their residents and will do whatever is in their power to run their own agenda.

It is imperative that we all show up tomorrow night and protest this vote. I know it is short notice, but we cannot let the Town Council let this happen.

PLEASE SHOW UP TOMORROW AND RAISE YOUR CONCERN ABOUT THE TIMING OF THIS VOTE

For more information you can go to the town website at http://www.flower-mound.com/

Your Government - Agendas & Minutes

Look at the Agenda for Town Council Meeting 05/04/09 page page 2, item K, Consent Agenda - Consent Items. Item 5. If you look right below Consent Agenda it states in small print that this is non-controversial and houskeeping issues.

It also states that any council member can have this removed from the Consent Agenda by making such request prior to a motion and vote on the Consent Agenda .

I sincerely hope that a current Council Member (those that are to represent the residents) has heard from the resident that this is a controversial issue and will vote to have it removed from the agenda.

There is more detailed information in the Packets link for the same date (same location on the website). On page 46 of this 498 page document is where it give more detailed information about the funding

It states that the Town can request funds for any cost overruns, but there is no guarantee that it will be granted. In such a case the Town itself will be responsible for the additional cost.

Page 52 Article 11 of this document mention that the Town must comply with all environmental review and public involvement requirements applicable to the Local Government under state and federal law in connection with the Projects.

What is the point of having public involvement after the Council already approved the agreement?

Page 54 Amendments

By mutual written consent of the Parties, this contract may be amended prior to its expiration. I guess this can be used as the last way out.

Early Voting

Earlier today I went up to the Police and Courts building to vote. It was so easy. That was a good thing and a bad thing. It was quick and was in and out in 10 minutes. The bad news was the numbers are behind last election as far as early voting. I can't urge you enough to get out to vote. It is the only way to insure we have a council in place that is concerned about the future of our town. If you were at the Candidates Forum on Thursday, you should have a pretty clear cut idea of who would be best for us. If you don't yet, we will have video posted here soon so you can see for yourself what the candidates had to say.

We will be coming out with personal endorsements soon.

You still have an hour to go today, the polls close at 5pm, the rain has ended, so run on up and cast your vote now. If not today, early voting continues on Monday and Tuesday.

Please get out and VOTE.

March and Meet

After spending much of today trying to unwind after the last few weeks of planning this event, I would first like to say it was an overwhelming success. The sight of over 100 people walking down Morriss was something I don't think this town has seen before. I want to thank everyone that participated and hope they had as much fun doing it as I did.

I would also like to thank Bjorn, Young Scott, Tall Scott, Holly, Carmen, Renee, Diane, and Doris for making this all come together. After all our planning it made it all look simple and it all came off without a single glitch. It was unfortunate that the Swine Flu hysteria hit at the time it did. I feel that was the only glitch that caused us not to hit the heights of participation we had hoped for. Regardless, Rain or Swine, it was still fabulous and I think I can speak for all, it was spectacular. Thanks to Jim Tullos for emceeing the event and to Christy at Little Petes for the use of the PA system.

A very special thanks to the Candidates, all 8 of them for coming out for the largest crowd they have faced in the campaign season, as I predicted.

Thank you to the press that came to cover the event, all the local news outlets were there tip to tail, taking pictures and following us for the mile long stroll. CNN didn't know what they missed.

I would also like to thank current Town Council members, Jeff Tasker and Jean Levenick for coming out for the lovely evening in the park. And a shout out to Mayor Jody Smith for the drive-by, sorry you couldn't stay, but was nice to see you. Sorry I was standing in the middle of Garden Rd stopping traffic when you were coming by.

Thanks to Michael Ryan for helping us set up at the park and all the other town staff I dealt with to make sure we were doing everything right.

Thanks to the Parks department for making sure we had power and helping us get set up. We have incredible parks in our town and everyone should utilize them as often as they can.

Everyone for bringing their kids and pets and making an evening of it. It really was a great night.

Thanks again,
Kim

p.s. please post here your experiences and what you thought.

Forum at Wilkerson Field

We would like to thank everyone that took the time to join us at

Wilkerson Field last night

The evening started with 100+ residents together with the candidates marching from the corner of Morriss Road and 1171 southbound towards Wilkerson's Field.

Arriving at the field was all eight candidates running for council place 1, 3 and 5.

After a short brief with the candidates, moderator Jim Tullos of Flower Mound got the Forum started.

Each candidate got 4 questions with a specific timeframe to answer each question. At the end each candidate was alloted 2 minutes for a closing statement.

Here are the four questions that was asked:

1. Do you support future amendments to SmartGrowth for future commercial developments?
and Do you support exceptions to SmartGrowth without amendments?

2. As a Town Council member, will you vote to stop the Morriss/Gerault expansion project? And why?

3. Under what circumstances would you support the expansion or improvement of the Morriss/Gerault road ways?

4. If you had complete control to set Town policy regarding urban drilling, what kind of policy would you advocate? Would you fight proposed legislation before the Texas House of Representatives? If so How?

The evening ended with the moderator thanking everyone for attending and reminded us all to vote in the upcoming election.

StopMorriss6 would like to thank each of the candidates for attending and for their answers. For those of you that could not attend we will have the transcript or video available shortly.

We also like to thank Little Pete's for providing us with a PA system for this event.