Excerpt From The Daily Astorian – August 24, 2007
Blair
Henningsgaard, the Astoria City Council member whose ward includes the 16th Street neighborhood, said he has met with the
ALN group several times. "I'm concerned about speeding. The city is taking steps to address the problem in ways we consider
appropriate, he said. "I believe it's better to raise public awareness rather than have a police crackdown."
ALN Comment
Councilor
Henningsgaard has only met with the "ALN group" one time. Rather than his implied staying in touch with the ALN, Henningsgaard
has threatened to "delete" e-mail from one ALN member, and wrote that e-mail "attachments are going straight into my
trash". The e-mail attachments that Henningsgaard was trashing were news articles about how various cities & towns were
addressing citizen’s complaints about vehicle speeding and excessive vehicle noise.
Henningsgaard
doesn't want to "crackdown" on persons who violate speeding and vehicle noise laws, but doesn't offer a solution
to the problems. In a November 2006 meeting with ALN members, Councilor Henningsgaard agreed that there was a speeding problem
in residential areas, but Henningsgaard said “tickets are the wrong way to go” in solving the speeding problem.
Councilor Henningsgaard offered no solution to solve the problem.
ALN Questions
Henningsgaard
says the city is "taking steps to address" the speeding problem:
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What are the steps?
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If the city has a plan, why not publish
it? Why keep a citizen's group, like ALN, who is concerned about a problem in the dark about what the city is doing or
planning to do?
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How is the City going to measure the
success of their "steps" to solve the speeding problem?
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Is the City going to report to the
community the results of their "steps"?
