All Posts from February, 2009

Why Contacting City Officials Matters

February 11th, 2009 | By admin in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Citizens can be eyes and ears and their feedback is vital for working partnership with government at all levels.

If citizens have a complaint, suggestion, idea, question, or comment related to city utilities, services, open process, staff, council, public safety, ordinances, zoning, policies, environmental stewardship, traffic, or anything else, there is one important way to share it: directly with a city representative.

Blogs, letters to the editor, newspaper websites, and radio shows (without city guests) are all wonderful and important ways to communicate, but do not take the place of contacting the city directly.

I mention this because last night’s public hearing on ABC Cab’s license is fresh in my mind.  There were a lot of people who spoke about a lot of  past problems and complaints that were not directed to the city or the police at the time.

There is contact information for city personnel and departments at www.HarrisonburgVA.gov.  If you’re not sure who to contact, take your best guess and someone will help you get to the right person.   If that doesn’t work, contact me!

Why ABC Cab (for now)

February 11th, 2009 | By admin in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Yesterday, I voted with the rest of City Council to approve a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for ABC Cab (see the DN-R article).   All taxi companies operating in the city must have such a certificate issued by city council in order to operate a cab, according to the City Code.  Read Full Post