Help us with Charter Amendment
To BAN Red Light Cameras!
***PRESS RELEASE***
Petition Drive to Stop the Traffic Cameras and Rubbish Collection Tax in Garfield Heights will Host a Second Petition Signing Event
A SECOND public gathering will be held to gather signatures from registered voters from Garfield Hts to stop the traffic cameras and the rubbish collection Tax.The Second event will take place this Saturday, June 19, 2010.
Please come by and sign the petition or bring your walking shoes and help circulate a petition.
If you could volunteer a half an hour to an hour it would greatly help the cause and effort to get these two very important items on the November ballot for public approval to end the traffic cameras and the rubbish collection tax.
When: Saturday, June 19, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: 5637 Turney Rd (The Polish National Alliance Hall)
We will have a drive-thru for you to conveniently sign the petitions - or you can come in and get the latest information and sign the petitions – and you may take around petitions to be signed by friends and neighbors.
for more information contact:
Paul Long (216) 406-3075 or Frank Wagner (216) 799-2909.
The Petitions are ready:
Petition Signing drive has been underway since before the May primary elections.
If you are a registered garfield heights voter and want to sign please contact us and we will get a petition in front of you for signing.
The most surprising canvaser for petition signing is a 76 year old garfield heights grandmother who we think has taken to going door to door for signatures...now that's conviction!
So if you want to Sign or take around petitions to be signed contact either
Paul Long (216) 406-3075 or Frank Wagner (216) 799-2909.
Petition Signing Drive
We are in the midst of a Petition Signing drive to stop Garfield Heights City Government from putting undue burdens upon its' residents by Tax increases and Fees for services and worse yet RED LIGHT CAMERAS
WE NEED YOUR HELP<<<<<.THE COMMUNITY MUST GET INVOVLED>>>>>>PLEASE GET IN CONTACT WITH US TO HELP US.
Garfield Heights has put into effect a contract with RedFlex to begin installing 6 Fixed Intersection Red Light/Speed Cameras and will also use up to 2 mobile Red Light/Speed Cameras.
At Monday May 10ths Council meeting Garfield Heights Mayor Vic Collova announced the Mobile traffic cameras will be on the road and issueing tickets.
These cameras are being installed through-out the country by municipalities that are desiring to bolster bad fiscal policies with another source of income, The State of Ohio has rulled these cameras are ONLY to be used for safety purposes and many have used safety as the reason they say publicly for the municipality's camera installation efforts.
Garfield Heights now ex-mayor Thomas Longo prior to introducing legislation for the cameras spoke with a reporter and was quoted as saying:
"You really don't want to say we did it for finances, but really we are," (read Plain Dealer article)
July 23, 2009, 5:44PM (read PD article)
GARFIELD HTS. -- Mayor Thomas Longo used a threat to lay off 19 workers to prompt City Council on Monday to pursue traffic cameras.
Longo's maneuver caused Police Chief Thomas Murphy to complain the Police Department was being used as "pawns" in a "stand-off" among Longo and council members.
If you are unsure how you feel about Red Light Cameras - Let's examine the facts:
SAFETY ISSUES:
- UNDER Current OHIO Law the Violator would be fined $ 100.00 and Court costs of about $105.00.
- They could receive 2 points on their Drivers license.
- Multiple offenders would have the financial disincentive AND would face potentially losing driving privelages in OHIO due to the points accumulation.
- Garfield Heights and others that make it a CIVIL Fine…
- Offender Pays Fine----Mailed in.
- receives NO POINTS AND NO DANGER OF LOSING DRIVING PRIVELAGES IN OHIO.
- Multiple offenders pay only fines and mail them in again and again as they speed and run red lights.
Studies have shown REAR END COLLISIONS INCREASE at Red Light camera Locations.
2007 Virginia DOT Report Shows Red Light Cameras Increase Accidents
A new Virginia Department of Transportation study shows accidents increased by nearly a third where red light cameras were used.