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7) Information put forth by the Charter Commission was misleading at best and straight out inaccurate at times a) They claimed the petition was started or spearhead by city hall. It was not. b) They claimed use of city lawyers indicated this was a City Hall directed petition. It was not. c) They implied the current PMP plan can reconstruct roads using already available funds. It can not. d) Caroline Dahl said WSLD can be fixed for $50K. Not true. e) They implied that under Statute 429 citizens have no rights. Not true. f) They put out inaccurate information on the number of referendums and there success. g) They implied that a so called "side bar meeting" of council members proves the city put forth the referendum. Not true. h) They brought up all kinds of cities projects that have nothing to do with the referendum as evidence of failed city system. i) They had a tremendous lack of respect for City Hall in all their letters and website material. j) The Charter Commission ignored the most important fact that is that under the current Charter system roads are not getting reconstructed at a sustainable rate. Reconstructing 1 road in 26 years puts us on a timeline of over 2000 years to cycle through all our roads. 8) Charter Commission members should never publicly have taken a side on this referendum. They should not have put forth a negative campaign, written letters to the editor, and misused their position to scare citizens into voting against the referendum. They could have put forth truthful balanced information, much like city hall, but they didn't. 9) The Charter Commission for the past few years has not been following the application process to file openings in the Charter Commission as outlined in the Charter. New applications are sent to the Charter Commission Chairman for filtering prior to going to the county judge for selection. This is in violation of the process laid out in the Charter. This current process is ripe for corruption. In recent years it appears some applications were never forwarded to the Judge. It appears that only people that think like the current members are being allowed onto the Charter Commission.