by Tiffany Knox | May 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
15 year city employee: Why I do NOT support the city manager-mayor-council form of government. The city has grown! We need more political infrastructure for leadership! Now take this consideration and let’s analyze the enhancements over the years. Trash Pandas and...
by Beth Nemati | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Note: this information was obtained from the Madison City Clerk. Please verify anything critical to your own vote. District 1 Faith Lutheran Church – 660 Gillespie Road District 2 Madison Baptist Church – 840 Balch Road (Madison County residents) Lamb of...
by Beth Nemati | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Madison City Hall’s web page omits extremely important information about the current power of the mayor. In part 6 of the governance transition list, it says that currently the mayor does not have a vote on the city council. However, it omits that the mayor...
by Beth Nemati | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Note: This was obtained by request from the Madison City Clerk. However, please verify all the information you will personally need–your right to vote is extremely important. Absentee Ballot Rules from the Madison City Clerk The City Clerk Office will control...
by Beth Nemati | Mar 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
The ballot language and election date were approved by the Madison city council on 3/13/23. “The City of Madison, with order of the Probate Court, has set the date for voters to decide the future of Madison’s municipal form of government. The special...
by Beth Nemati | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Current form of government Madison has a Mayor-Council form of government. There is a city council with seven members who represent seven districts of the city. Voters elect a council member for their district. Because the city is not very big, the council members’...
by Kathryn Patrick | Mar 7, 2023 | AL, Bad city managers
City hall wants you to think the “city manager” style government is a panacea. At least that’s what we’ve observed from public meetings and posts at madisonal.gov. The flip side is the FACT that cities all over the country have had big...
by Beth Nemati | Feb 18, 2023 | accountability, continuity
What is lost? The right to vote is lost: If we vote for this change, we lose the right to elect a mayor to be the city’s executive. The city council now gets to select the city’s executive. Accountability is lost: Currently, if Madison citizens...
by Beth Nemati | Feb 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Tiffany Knox Since July 2022, “Madison Forward” has been collecting signatures to call for a special election to change Madison’s form of government. Many citizens are skeptical about this change. This article will look at two reasons why Madison residents should...
by Beth Nemati | Feb 9, 2023 | CEO, debt, economic development, efficiency, freedom, run city as a business
Government inefficiency is actually good for us. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says in this video that we don’t want government to run smoothly! Gridlock is a good thing. Partisan conflict is fine. Why? Because if government were free from all these...
