Posted 22 June 2013 - 06:22 AM

Important question...who is going to attend Monday?



I will be attending and I know ILikeMyRights will be, but we need more people to attend. Based on what I understand of the council meetings, the following is true:



1: Everyone has to sign in to speak, and I think they are required to be Evanston residents; I'd love to have others speak but I don't think that's permissible.



2: Last time there were four people who spoke AGAINST HB183 and FOR an AWB; we should at least meet this number, perhaps coordinating our speeches to cover every possible angle.



3: Citizen speakers get a max of three (3) minutes; please practice, rewrite, practice, rewrite, and practice again any speech you're considering delivering.



Thank you!



I will be attending. I am a resident of Evanston, so should be able to speak. I will prefer to make the financial arguments as I am a stronger speaker if I can just focus on the numbers. What I'd love to find out as a data point is if anyone has any idea what it cost Chicago and, more importantly, Oak Park to litigate their handgun bans (real numbers are very powerful!). I'm not asking about the Gura checks, but rather, an estimate of their own legal costs? Would the Gura costs be a good proxy for what it cost Oak Park? Or would it have cost the city more (or less)?I won't be able to work on this today, but will focus on putting it together tomorrow. Any help with data or financial points that were useful at other council meetings would be helpful. Post here or PM me. I plan on bringing up, in detail, some of the programs that had to be cut in the last budget because of shortfalls (not to mention the whopping POLICE pension shortfall).