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NO-votes by Royal Oak Cit Commissioners |
Beginning with the 09 January 2006 meeting of the Royal Oak City Commission, the tabulation below will list NO-votes by the elected officials. Whether patterns emerge over time -- framed by temperament or topic or principle or politics -- remains to be seen.
DISCONTINUED. Enough no-votes have been cast to enable us to conclude that the commissioners for the most part base their vote on issues, not framed primarily by temperament or politics.
So I have stopped maintaining this tabulation, although I'll leave it in place for a while as a reference item. -- FJV: 20 Sep 06
However!
With the election of former City
Attorney Chuck Semchena to CITCOM, activist-readers have suggested that I
tabulate any split vote to see if any 4-3 or 5-2 pattern forms. That tabulation
starts below. -- March 2008
One more time:
The election of two-and-a-half newbies -- Rasor, Poulton, and Capello --
resulted in enough 5-2 votes during their 21 December 2009 meeting for readers
to request tabulating split votes again for at least a few months.
See.
| Date | Elected Official | Topic | Impression |
| 09 Jan 06 | Drinkwine | Appointments to DDA | In City Manager Tom Hoover's medical absence, It bothered Drinkwine that the appointments had been proposed by Acting City Manager Tim Thwing, who sits on the DDA and whose Planning Dept does most of the DDA's work. |
| 20 Feb 06 | Drinkwine | Rezoning application by Beaumont Hospital | Although two or three other commissioners and the mayor agreed with Drinkwine that proper procedures had been followed and proper notice given, all except Drinkwine deferred to residents' demands for more time and more hearings. |
| 20 Feb 06 | Ellison | Shakespeare in the Park | Ellison abstained because his wife is a performer in the group. |
| 20 Feb 06 | Drinkwine & Andrzejak | Following current procedures for resolving a paving petition where residents split 50-50, rather than informally talking to residents. | I must have missed something in the dialogue, because I don't understand what Terry's and Mike's objections were. |
| 06 Mar 06 | Drinkwine | Requiring retailers to notify the city when they plan to give alcoholic beverages to their patrons. | Drinkwine doesn't consider he proposed amendment to the special event ordinance strict enough. |
| 06 Mar 06 | Capello, Drinkwine, Ellision | Require 2/3, supermajority vote when making decisions re transferring Enterprise Funds to the General Fund. | Because such a policy can be overridden by a simple majority vote, there's some question about its practical usefulness. |
| 06 Mar 06 | Capello, Drinkwine, Ellison | Re-create an Ice Arena Committee | Does this re-establish an unnecessary layer of bureaucratic control? |
| 06 Mar 06 | Drinkwine | Restrict any transfers from Enterprise Funds to General Fund to 20% per fiscal year | Supermajority or not, each commission has to make specific judgments each fiscal year, so the 20% restriction in meaningless. |
| 20 Mar 06 | Drinkwine | Requiring retailers to notify the city when they plan to give alcoholic beverages to their patrons. (Second reading) | Drinkwine doesn't consider he proposed amendment to the special event ordinance strict enough. |
| 17 Apr 06 | Andrzejak | A parking-related resolution by the Traffic Committee, which included the committee's request/announcement for holding a public hearing related to the issue. Ginotti had restated the resolution, omitting the request for a public hearing | Although the Traffic Committee has the authority to hold a public hearing without seeking approval from the commission, Andrzejak says, "I had no problem keeping the language in the resolution calling for the public hearing that the Traffic Committee is going to have anyway. Other than that the Commission was on the same page." |
| 19 June 06 | Ellison, Lelito, Miller | Traffic Committee resolution to remove "No Parking" signs from West Harrison | All three no-voters cited concern re emergency vehicles as their main concern. Miller would have voted to allow Permit Parking. Lelito says the majority's preferences should have been the deciding factor. Ellison is concerned that workers in or visitors to the nearby office building will park on the street, considering that safer than the building's parking lot. |
| 10 July 2006 | Ginotti & Miller | A lot-split. | A symbolic protest vote against lot-splits in general. |
| 10 July 2006 | Ellison, Ginotti, Lelito | Resolution to deny a liquor license to Doc Green's. | The dissenting three saw neither an alcohol threat nor a binding precedent in granting the license transfer from another city. |
| 21 Aug 2006 | Ginotti | A lot-split | A symbolic protest vote against lot-splits in general -- a bit more justified this time because there had been variances granted by ZBA. |
| 21 Aug 2006 | Andrzejak, Drinkwine, Miller | Rescind resolution which denied tavern license to Doc Green's. (See 10 July, above) | No new information was presented to justify reversing the denial . . . Setting bad precedent . . . Fear that tavern license might be upgraded to full C-status in the future. |
| 21 Aug 2006 | Andrzejak, Drinkwine, Miller | Grant tavern license to Doc Green's. | Consistent with their vote immediately above. |