When people get fed up enough, they elect new people and then you have a good one again. It s a grass-roots democracy. Chavous pointed to Congress move as an erosion of self-government. We don t have much democracy in this city anyway. Evans said the problem with ANCs is lack of enforcement of financial regulations, rather than lack of training for commissioners.
Residents have to elect better people, people that are going to show up.
Statehood Party candidate John Gloster said ANCs need more than just full funding. Gloster said as mayor, he would link the ANCs to a decentralized Department of Public Works with substations in each ANC, to further facilitate delivery of public services, as many ANCs already do. Gloster s proposal would formalize the relationship and give the ANC power to dismiss public works officials responsible for upkeep of their neighborhood. Commissioners would be able to call up the substation head and say, Look, there s a problem in this alley.