Fight underway to save Jacksonville from itself

[sheclown]

Paul Harden almost always gets what his client wants.  Never something that helps the city.

Could we at least ask that when he writes the city's legislation he does so in a manner in which the staff can understand?  Its embarrassing otherwise.

[strider]

Here's an interesting thought.  If a councilman works with the office of General Council to write a bill, all of the correspondence leading up to that bill is public record.  If a councilmen or other city employee, even just a member of a citizen committee, uses their personal e-mail for something related, all of their personal e-mail becomes public record.

I think we can also see that ordinances are supposed to be written for the good of the public otherwise, why have them to begin with?  So it follows that anyone who writes an ordinance is doing it for the public good (in theory anyway) and therefore they are defacto employees of the general public.  That should mean that all of the correspondence relating to this ordinance written for the public by Mr Harden regardless of the format or whether it was to a council person or his clients should be public record.  I would think names and some personal information would have to be redacted, but the meat of the correspondence should be available to the public.  It would make very interesting reading I'm sure.

[AviationMetalSmith]

What Jacksonville needs is a Kevlar armored bicycle-tank, in full camouflage .

Seriously, pass the blame to the Federal Government, it's the US Route 17 "Roosevelt Blvd" that needs the Bike Lanes and Sidewalks.