Ward 3 Councilman James Griffin will be holding a community meeting tonight, March 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM to discuss Canton’s red light camera and speed camera proposal. Questions will be “answered” by City officials for residents who have questions about these traffic enforcement systems. The meeting will be held at the Westminster Community Church, 171 Aultman Ave NW.
If you would like to reach Councilman Griffin, you may call the council clerk’s office at (330)489-3223.
I think this is going to be more of the same high pressure sales tactics we have see from the City. Any answers to questions from City officials will be Redflex propaganda. Mr. Griffin has been flip-flopping on the issue since he found out what a political hot potato it is. Mr. Griffin voted initially with all but one council member to allow the City to enter into an agreement with Redflex. Mr Griffin then was quoted two different times in the Repository has “having reservations” and he said of his constituents “they just don’t want it.” I am sure that this meeting will be a way to tell us that we really do want red light cameras, but we are just not smart enough to realize it.
I hope that Mr. Griffin hears a lot from angry residents at this meeting. I would love to go to it, but my work schedule will not allow it. Maybe SexCPotatoes will be there, if he is, he will write about it.