The petition has passed 1800. 1803 right now.
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Love that John is there from House of Swank!
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signatures up to 1952
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Apparently city council just ignored all of this. Wtf
Apparently the moloks weren’t large enough to fit the multiple councilors who are trash. Needed a redesign.
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So did the council address the issue the containers at all? There was no mention of them at all in Mendel’s email update to her constituents.
This is a bunch of hogwash. Why even put them in if you let one complaint abolish the whole trial after one month.
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I believe it takes 2 weeks to get on the agenda to speak at a public hearing. By the time “we” could officially speak about them in front of council, they’ll be gone.
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So the council did indeed ignore all of this. And they’re about to spend about $70,000 to take them all back out and again without consulting the public.
And chances are many or most of them will be reelected. That’s local politics at its best.
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Can we start a campaign to bring our trash cans to council members’ houses, the way they did with toilets in The Help? 
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Don’t tempt me. I’m so disappointed in what I see (not) happen that I would probably join you.
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You can count me in…
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I’ll bet my life that Raleigh will get negative national press for this in either citylab or some other urban development blog…oh, and the petition is at 2084.
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Mo money, mo problems,
Seems to me this was an issue of perception/lack of public engagement, less so than a complaint about any actual impact from the moloks.
From an article in Indy yesterday:
“Did you ever think that for your minority residents there is nothing innovative about this?” Daniel Coleman, who chairs the South Central Citizens Advisory Council, wrote to council members and city officials on August 8. “We always get the trash dumps, the short end of the stick, history teaches us all a whole lot, and if you let history teach you a thing or two and not be so fixated on the future without the pulse of the past to guide, things would be so much easier and equitable.”
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“We weren’t invited to the table,” says Kimberly Muktarian, an activist and president of Save Our Sons of Raleigh, which advocates for racial justice in the court system. “It’s the only black bank that we have, so while we are losing so much of our property and our dignity and respect, Mechanics and Farmers is one of the last places in the city in the downtown district, and for us to be singling them out like that, it’s insensitive—and, to me, it’s deliberate as well.”
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“This was an equity issue for the bank, whether they should have been brought in for the process,” Coleman says. “The bank had not been a party to the decision-making process, which really goes to a lot of other issues that are going on with the city, and the staff is making decisions and they are doing it thinking they know all the points of interest in the matter.”In much of the planning happening downtown, says Diana Powell, the executive director of Justice Served NC, the city’s African American community is left behind.
“They say they are community-engaged, but that’s not a reality to us,” Powell says. “You look at downtown and how so much development is going in, it’s not at all inclusive.”
This is pure speculation, but I almost feel like if someone had had the foresight to engage the bank and explain the reasons for placing them there before they actually went in, there may not have been any backlash.
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"The city ceased using the Moloks Sunday and is now looking for alternative locations. Moore says there’s no timeline for relaunching the program. "
Yeah the program is officially dead. Welcome to Raleigh.
This is piss poor planning by the city. Why would they not engage the surrounding business for input before proceeding?
And then on the flip side, they should have told the bank, and all other businesses, this is a trial for X-months. after which we will collect feedback and make a decision to keep / delete, or relocate them. Don’t pull them out after one month when one business complains. tell them you would be happy to hear any feedback, and it will be considered when the trial period is over.
This whole thing seems to have been mismanaged from the start.
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There’s a huge amount of concrete surface on the new Moore Square park. You think they could have placed it there.