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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.
• Councilman Greg Berry posts an excellent Web site called Fiscal Responsibility Pottstown.
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 2009 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 2009 meeting dates
Regular Meeting |
Committee of the Whole |
| January 12, 2009 | January 7, 2009 |
| February 9, 2009 | January 4, 2009 |
| March 9, 2009 | March 4, 2009 |
| April 13, 2009 | April 8, 2009 |
| May 11, 2009 | May 6, 2009 |
| June 8, 2009 | June 3, 2009 |
| July 13, 2009 | July 8, 2009 |
| August 10, 2009 | August 5, 2009 |
| September 14, 2009 | September 9, 2009 |
| October 13, 2009 (Tuesday) | October 7, 2009 |
| November 9, 2009 | November 4, 2009 |
| December 14, 2009 | December 9, 2009 |
Pottstown School Board 2009 meeting dates
Regular Meeting |
Committee of the Whole |
| January 22, 2009 | January 8, 2009 |
| February 19, 2009 | February 5, 2009 |
| March 19, 2009 | March 5, 2009 |
| April 16, 2009 | April 2, 2009 |
| May 21, 2009 | May 7, 2009 |
| June 18, 2009 | June 4, 2009 |
| July 23, 2009 | July 9, 2009 |
| August 20, 2009 | August 6, 2009 |
| September 17, 2009 | September 3, 2009 |
| October 15, 2009 (Tuesday) | October 1, 2009 |
| November 19, 2009 | November 5, 2009 |
| December 17, 2009 | December 7, 2009 |
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:
David G. Garner, Esq. |
Greg M. Berry, |
Mark S. Gibson |
Maureen K. Allen, |
Michael D. Wenzel |
Stephen M. Toroney |
Jody L. Rhoads, |
Sharon V. Thomas |
Our school board members are elected at large:
Judyth Zahora, Board President |
Robert Hartman, Board |
Amy Francis |
Edwin Edwards |
Michele Pargeon |
Dennis Wausnock |
Richard Huss |
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.”
© Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government, 2008