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[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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That ANC meeting was an *embarrassment* for the neighborhood. And now the meeting is online for the world to see the ugly ANC leadership of Tenleytown, DC. 
A bully with some seemingly personal ax to grind with GDS was running the show, and the other ANC commissioners reflexively cowered and fell in line right behind him. No one in that meeting from the ANC possessed the ability to think critically or objectively; or maybe they did but fell under the spell of the leader? Whatever it was, it was atrocious, and, I hope will lead to some self-reflection.
The lack of structure, clarity, and, frankly, leadership, at that meeting was galling. There's a way to point out and recommend a penalty for failure to file required reports that does not need to be so contentious. (Usually a fine of sone kind; there's probably some precedent. The fee should not be arbitrary; especially witnessing the atrocious behavior of the ANC, I would not leave it to the ANC to come up with the fine amount.) The ANC and GDS should have formed a sub-committee to revisit the definition of "neighborhood" which appears to be the main source of confusion. West side of Wisconsin should be off limits to stopping in the AM? include that in an amended MOU--but be sure to survey your local businesses first. GDS should find out if the other schools along Wisconsin have similar restraints about drop offs and pick ups on Wisconsin.
That ANC lacks [i]practical wisdom[/i] and needs to think deeply about what public service truly means. I see that GDS acted with admirable restraint, but it's obvious they need to get their house in order. [/quote]

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