This week, Manatee County Commissioner Tal Siddique joins Mitch and Dawn to discuss issues in District 3 as well as the county at large, including traffic and development issues.
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David Daniels
I am very pleased that Commissioner Siddique acted to end the ridiculous wasteful purchasing of so many high maintenance, low benefit palm trees for the median improvements. THANK YOU!. On the other hand, I thing the Commissioner dodged, or completely missed the point when Dennis asked Siddique to comment on the process that led up to the roundabout on University at Deer Dr in LWR. The question was not necessarily about the pros and cons of roundabouts (although that is also unclear at this specific location) - but I think Dennis was trying to get Siddique to weigh in on yet another failure of transparency by Charlie Bishop's Administration. The residents out there were mis-led, over and over. They were not told what was actually happening. They thought they would get their day to comment but instead, Bishop pushed the contract through on consent. I just don't understand the unwillingness to hold Bishop accountable for all of the unethical, non-transparent, anti-public interest actions he has taken.It was Bishop who wrote the memo recommending the old city hall property be "surplussed" - paving the way for what will soon be 400 apartments on Manatee Ave at 15th St W. I could name action after action where Bishop has worked to protect special interests instead of the public and did not come clean beforehand with the board.
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