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What You Can Do
Here are ways you can help influence Pottstown’s destiny:
Inform yourself about the issues.
• Read our local newspaper, The Mercury, either the hard copy or online.
• Review our Web site.
• Review the Web sites of Pottstown Borough and the Pottstown School District.
Official minutes are available on these Web sites.
Attend Public Meetings
Both Pottstown Council and the Pottstown School Board meet twice a month. All such meetings are public. Both bodies have one regular meeting each month, at which votes are taken and public comment is permitted (3-minute limit). Each group also holds a “Committee-of-the-Whole” meeting for discussion. Public comment is not permitted at these meetings.
Here are the 2011 meeting schedules of Pottstown Council and the Pottstown School Board. Because meeting dates are sometimes changed during the year, we suggest you check the dates on the Web sites of Pottstown Borough and the Pottstown School District.
Pottstown Council 2011 meeting dates
Regular Meeting |
Committee of the Whole |
| January 10, 2011 | January 5, 2011 |
| February 14, 2011 | Feb. 9, 2011 |
| March 14, 2011 | March 9, 2011 |
| April 11, 2011 | April 6, 2011 |
| May 9, 2011 | May 4, 2011 |
| June 13, 2011 | June 8, 2011 |
| July 11, 2011 | July 6, 2011 |
| August 8, 2011 | August 3, 2011 |
| September 12, 2011 | September 7, 2011 |
| October 11, 2011 (Tuesday) | October 5, 2011 |
| November 14, 2011 | November 9, 2011 |
| December 12, 2011 | December 7, 2011 |
Pottstown School Board 2011 meeting dates
Regular Meeting |
Committee of the Whole |
| January 20, 2011 | January 6, 2011 |
| February 17, 2011 | February 3, 2011 |
| March 17, 2011 | March 3, 2011 |
| April 14, 2011 | March 31, 2011 |
| May 19, 2011 | May 5, 2011 |
| June 16, 2011 | June 2, 2011 |
| July 21, 2011 | July 7, 2011 |
| August 18, 2011 | August 4, 2011 |
| September 15, 2011 | September 1, 2011 |
| October 20, 2011 | October 6, 2011 |
| November 17, 2011 | November 3, 2011 |
| December 15, 2011 | December 1, 2011 |
Contact your Council and School Board members.
Contact information is listed below. It would be courteous to send public officials letters or e-mails before calling them on the phone.
Council members are elected by Ward. To see a map of Pottstown’s seven wards, click here.
Our Council members are as follows:
Stephen M. Toroney |
Mark S. Gibson |
Maureen K. Allen, |
Jeff Chomnuk |
Dan Weand |
Jody L. Rhoads, |
Joseph L. Kirkland |
Bonnie Heath |
Our school board members are elected at large:
Richard Huss |
Dennis Wausnock |
Thomas Hylton |
Robert H. Hartman, Jr. |
Michele Pargeon |
Polly Weand |
Valerie Harris |
Nat O. White |
Julia Wilson |
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Share your thoughts on The Mercury’s Opinion Page. (The “Readers Views” section contains letters of 250 words or less and “Another View” allows for a short essay of up to 700 words.)
Considering running for office or supporting other candidates.
It’s not easy being an elected official, but these are the people who make the decisions. There’s nothing wrong with politics – that’s how democracy works.
When Theodore Roosevelt was advised that gentlemen didn’t engage in politics, he replied that “it merely meant the people I knew didn’t belong to the governing class – and I intended to be one of the governing class. If politics proved too hard-bit, I supposed I would have to quit, but I certainly would not quit until I had made the effort.”