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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a GDS parent but not a DC resident. Can someone please explain to me what these ANCs are and whether they have any enforcement power? Is it just a commission of NIMBYs who bother to run for a council seat that has no power?

I watched the meeting video. Good lord, if this is how DC neighborhoods are run, I’m so grateful to live in MoCo

Did one of the ANC members sing or perform a poem or was that just a neighbor?

The guy who chairs the ANC seems like the exact type of person I imagined would want that job and would seek to run for it.

Some sort of a lawyer who never practiced at a big firm. Barely makes it as a lawyer and therefore the type who has the time to run an election platform entirely based on being against GDS. Because he’s a liberal you know. But he’s not liberal about a school that’s spending millions monitoring its transportation plan. So he’s gonna treat this like the Watergate Commission or whatever he learned at the third rate law school he attended.

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ANCs are meant to provide local representation for micro-areas throughout the city, but they have no official binding authority (though their decisions do carry weight).  They then advise their councilmember (in this case, the Ward 3 councilmember) who is able to exercise real authority as part of the DC city council.

ANC reps are unpaid and they often run unopposed in their elections.  The job requires a lot of time and frankly stinks. Most of your time is spent on very rudimentary matters...someone wants to put up a fence or make a home improvement that requires a variance, a business wants a liquor license...think of any day-to-day random matter that may impact a neighborhood in a city.

As you might imagine, the job stinks, pays nothing and has no binding authority...which is why it takes a very particular person (likely with some specific issue that consumes them) to run for the office.

I believe ANCs are elected for 4-year terms, with some recently elected in 2022 and some coming up in 2024.  Only people that live within that specific ANC area can vote for that ANC rep.[/quote]

All true, but they are 2-year terms. [/quote]

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