Today is Election Day for Trenton voters. The city must choose a new police commissioner, and three candidates are vying for the spot. Polls are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
This is a special election, triggered by the resignation of the longtime incumbent police commissioner, Sandra Black, barely nine months into the new term she'd been elected for the preceding November. And even for the regularly scheduled variety, excitement is seldom fever-pitch for city elections.
But by all accounts turnout for this special election has been especially miserable. The Dade Board of Elections, which now conducts city elections, reported today at about lunchtime that 120 votes had been collected during the three weeks of early voting and a whopping seven voters had showed up today.
So if you are a registered city voter, here's your chance to participate in democracy. Remember, city elections are now held not at City Hall but in the Dade Administrative Building. Go shake a poll worker awake, make a difference in your community--and become no. 8!
Dade Water Board Meeting at 5 p.m.
The governing board of the Dade Water Authority, which usually meets at 8 a.m. one Friday a month, has a special called meeting at 5 p.m. today in the conference room of the Dade County Commission Office. The purpose of the meeting is personnel, so most of the meeting is certain to be behind closed doors in executive session.
On the other hand, exciting news should come out of it: Dade County Executive Chairman Ted Rumley, who currently also chairs the water board, said he expects the board to announce its choice for a new manager to replace Doug Anderton, who has run the water company for the past 49 years.
Anderton is retiring this summer. His assistant manager, Sherri Walker, has applied for the job, but the board has given no indication whether she has made the final cut or if it will go with a candidate from elsewhere.
The personnel change comes coincidentally at a time of upheaval at the water board. Local legislation is in the works to restructure the board and remove Rumley from its leadership after the board and city and county governments all agreed it was time for a reshuffle.
