Terri Hall says "MPO power grab, round 2, Monday, June 16th"
Terri Hall (photo)
Founder/Executive Director
MPO may vote to give Chair, Mayor, & County Judge unilateral powers, change a quorum, make tolling easier
At Monday’s (June 16th) San Antonio Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) meeting, @ 1:30 p.m. @ VIA Transit Center, 1021 San Pedro, the Board will vote on proposed changes to its bylaws that would water-down what constitutes a quorum, allow the County Judge and Mayor to unilaterally appoint MPO alternates instead of the entire Council or Commissioners Court as stated in their charters (which may include UN-elected appointees in the place of elected ones), make changes to the scoring of projects that encourage more tolling, and give the Chair and Director more unilateral powers and decision-making.
“We the people have seen these tactics by the political establishment time and again just like the repeated attempts to kill term limits. If the taxpayers reject your UN-Democratic policies, just keep bringing them up time and again until you wear the voters out, catch them off-guard, or beat them into submission. Well, the public rejected this power grab last year, and we reject it again now,” observes Terri Hall, TexasTURF.org Founder.
The changes to the quorum would allow unfilled vacancies Not to count toward the 50% quorum needed to conduct business. Since the SAMPO is nearly half appointees, this would encourage the vacancies that most often are the result of a change of elected officials to remain unfilled, while appointees then make multi-billion dollar tax decisions with No accountability to the taxpayers.
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