City Council Meeting Audio 5/09/07

Sorry for the tardiness. But it's getting nice outside, and the sun glares off of my laptop screen.

This was a relatively short meeting. Council honored two of the City's retirees that passed away. Crime was a topic (3 shootings, one fatal, and one mugging).

Audio:
Regular Meeting (1 hours 40 minutes 11.4Mb)

Documents:
Agenda
Minutes

2007 Primary Candidates' Interviews

The final three interviews are posted!!!!!
*NOTE: Ken Brown declined to participate in the interviews

This is where we will post audio interviews with candidates for the May 15th primary. The interviews will added as they occur (with the most recent listed first).

Each interview will last 15 to 20 minutes. The questions will be selected from our question pool prior to each interview. The interviews are neutral and issues only.

Send us your questions to add to our question pool. Email eu@eastonundressed.org put “Questions” in the subject line.

Candidates schedule your interviews! Email eu@eastonundressed.org

May 8, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Bill Timmann(R) primary candidate for Easton City Council. Bill Timmann interview (25 minutes 28 seconds 2.91Mb)

May 7, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Peter Melan (R) primary candidate for Easton City Council. Peter Melan interview (13 minutes 36 seconds 1.56Mb)

May 7, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Nadine Loane (D) primary candidate for Easton City Council. Nadine Loane Interview (23 minutes 46 seconds 2.72Mb)

April 16, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Jeff Warren (D) primary candidate for Easton City Council. Jeff Warren interview (18 minutes 26 seconds 2.1Mb)

April 10, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Gary Bertsch (R) primary candidate for Easton Mayor. Gary Bertsch interview (12 minutes 53 seconds 1.47Mb)

April 7, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Sal Panto Jr. (D) primary candidate for Easton Mayor. Sal Panto Jr. interview (14 minutes 37 seconds 1.67Mb)

April 5, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Roger Ruggles (R) primary candidate for Easton City Council. Roger Ruggles interview (17 minutes 24 seconds 1.99Mb)

April 4, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Mike Fleck (D) primary candidate for Easton Mayor. Mike Fleck interview (18 minutes 59 seconds 2.23Mb)

April 2, 2007, Terrance Hand interviews Elinor Warner (D) primary candidate for Easton City Council. El Warner interview (14 minutes 26 seconds 1.65Mb)

City Council Meeting Audio 4/25/07

This meeting was an epic four and a half hours! The first 45 minutes was the City Treasurers report (very disappointing). That was followed by 2 hours and 20 minutes of public comment on the Riverwalk project. The actual meeting was 39 minutes, and it was followed by 40 minutes more of public comment.

Every minute of this meeting was important and interesting. The Treasurers report was very disturbing to me. The Treasurer, his staff, and the Business Administrator spent the majority of the 45 minutes explaining why their performance was the way it is. There wasn't any talk that I can recall about improving performance.

The Riverwalk fight was as heated as it has ever been. It culminated in a borderline fist fight (shouting match) between a councilman and an anti-Riverwalk activist at the 5th floor elevators. Council voted 4 to 1 in favor of the Riverwalk project.

For your convenience (and at great inconvenience to me) I have divided the meeting into segments:

Entire meeting (4 hours 28 minutes 30.7Mb)
Treasurer's report (45 minutes 12 seconds 5.17Mb)
1st comments segment (2 hours 22 minutes 16.2Mb)
Meeting segment (38 minutes 59 seconds 4.46Mb)
2nd comments segment (39 minutes 59 seconds 4.57Mb)

We hope you find this helpful,
Your neighbors

NAACP Candidates' Night

On Friday, April 20, 2007, the Easton branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hosted a Candidates' Night at the Third Street Alliance. 15 candidates participated. The candidates were seperated into 4 panels based on the elected office. There were 3 District Justice(Magistrate) candidates, 1 of the 2 Controller candadites, 7 City Council candidates, and all 3 Mayoral hopefuls.

The candidates were allowed short introductions (2 to five minutes dependant on office), and when all of the panel members were introduced a question and answer session followed.

District Justice candidates (15 minutes 59 seconds 1.82Mb)

Brian Monahan
Cindy Greene
Dan Corpora

City Controller candidates (7 minutes 13 seconds 848kb)

Vicky M. Davis (Controller D) (not in attendance)

Tony Bassil (Controller R)

City Council candidates (51 minutes 51 seconds 5.93Mb)

Ken Brown (Council D)

Roger Ruggles (Council R)
Elinore Warner (Council D)

Peter G. Melan (Council R)
Nadine Loane (Council D)

Bill E. Timmann (Council R)
Jeff Warren (Council D)

Mayoral candidates (54 minutes 56 seconds 6.28Mb)

Sal Panto, Jr. (Mayoral D)

Gary Bertsch (Mayoral R)

Michael P. Fleck (Mayoral D)

College Hill Neighborhood Association Candidate's Night (Mayoral)

On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 our neighbors from the College Hill Neighborhood Association hosted a Candidates' Night for Mayoral candidates.

We did our best to clean up and amplify the audio, but the acoustics of the church and no microphone in the audience made the audience questions difficult to improve. In any event, the candidates can be heard pretty well. We hope this audio is useful to you.

Intro & Gary Bertsch (16 minutes 45 seconds 1.91Mb)
Mike Fleck (18 minutes 35 seconds 2.12Mb)
Sal Panto Jr. (18 minutes 21 seconds 2.10Mb)

Closing Remarks

Gary Bertsch closing (2 minutes 49 seconds 331kb)
Mike Fleck closing (1 minutes 52 seconds 220kb)
Sal Panto Jr. closing (3 minutes 12 seconds 376kb)

APPLY FOR ABSENTEE BALLOT for the primary BEFORE the close of business May 8, 2007
VOTE in the primary May 15, 2007!!!