Concerned Citizens of Fridley

Your Executive Board has been hearing from quite a number of you, that while the CCof F’s goals are fine, we seem stymied from reaching them. A number of you have also suggested that we seek the help that an experienced outside speaker might bring to us.

The board has heard you. At its December meeting, the board agreed on a unified course of action and have set up two full member meetings. Both will be held at 7pm at the Fridley Community Center.

The first one is scheduled for Thursday evening, January 12, 2006. Although we had hoped to feature a speaker at this meeting, Tam McGehee, from the Friends of Twin Lakes group in Roseville had a scheduling conflict and was unable to join us. We are working with her to schedule a different date. Instead we will use this meeting as an open forum. Come and share your ideas of what you see as our course of action. Join us as we make plans and set goals for 2006.

There will be no meeting in February.

Roger McBridge, will be with us on Thursday evening March 9, 2006. From him we’ll hear how his citizen’s group in Prior Lake moved from identifying local concerns not being addressed by the city council, to changing the makeup of the council. He will tell us how this was accomplished by asking the incumbents and their challengers to sign the groups pledge. Come hear about the incumbents refusals to sign and their subsequent defeat, thus creating a new and different thinking majority. Be sure to hear this winning speaker.

From the information gathered from you and speakers we present over the coming months, your Board members believe they can lay out a successful course of action to bring back to you for your approval. If followed through on, it should stop the process of jamming more multi-family, multi-story, higher density, low income, high builder profits and bigger taxes for the Council to spend. Remember we like the 70% home ownership to 30% rental ratio. The warehousing of people has long had a history of its debilitating effect on a community’s culture and is a major step in “ghettoizing” it. The social engineering must stop some where and it might as well be here.

Please join us at these two events and don’t forget to visit our web site and post your comments in our discussion forums located at www.concernedcitizensoffridley.com.

Your CCofF Executive Board