Make Your Opinion Count Announces Next Trash Petition Meeting

COUNTY RESESIDENTS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND A MEETING ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008 AT 6:00 PM AT THE ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY - FLORISANT VALLEY BRANCH, 195 S. NEW FLORISSANT ROAD

The volunteers of the MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT organization will be explaining the goals of their Inititative Petition Drive to give county residents a chance to vote on the County's Trash Districting Plan and Minimum Trash Hauling Services requirements.

Attendees will be given the chance to sign the Petition and to volunteer to collect signatures from their friends and neighbors.

If you can't attend the meeting and would like to have a petition mailed to you call:

(314) 352-6300

Resident Says County Will Play Hardball on Trash Issue

If 23,000 signatures are required, plan on getting between 30,000-35,000. The County will play hardball on this and dispute every possible signature with the goal of leaving the petitioners with just a few less than the required minimum.

St. Louis County government under the Democrats and Charlie Dooley can no longer be trusted to do anything honestly and objectively. It is highly likely that corruption , and the opportunity to extend that corruption into the awarding of trash hauling contracts, is one of the principal motivations behind this ill-advised scheme.
. . . Anonymous

Article IX of the County Charter says . . .

…" the people reserve the power to propose and enact or reject ordinances independent of the council, to approve or reject ordinances by referendum, and to recall an elective county officer.

Section 9.020. Initiative petitions may propose ordinances on any subject … Such petitions shall be signed by qualified voters equal in number to at least five percent of the total vote cast for governor in each of two thirds of the council districts at the last election at which a governor was chosen. [THAT’S ABOUT 20,000 SIGNATURES] Each petition shall containthe full text of the measure and an enacting clause.