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ALV groenlinks utrecht

Yesterday GL-Utrecht had an ALV. Around 20:00 it was declared open, given that the needed tools were made available.       Important to say, some people was preparing their speeches form long before.  The first event of the night was an important exchange of functions: Barry stop as treasurer and got involved in the next commission of financial control, meanwhile Els stop as financial controller and become treasurer.       Ditter gave us a brief overview of the stand of the partijraad,and asked how members would like to be informed about the partijraad. After a deafening silence, we follow the suggestion of several members on informing via email when the discussion texts for the partijraad are available. People will then be able to read and react, if and when they desire so.  After a pause we went into the real discussion of the evening, in which Cees explained the successes of our wethouders, starting by mentioning the new wind that blows across Utrecht with our college. Marry talked about her evaluation from the fractie, and Gijs reminded us our election program. Heleen did a view-right-away transcript of what was said.   The discussion got steam and trundled on, so that one hour later a point was clear for this reporteur: members of groenlinks utrecht are not happy with the style of government that our own wethouders have used: the pretension of a city government that gives the initiative to the citizen, that the citizen perceives as his and her government, is not to be achieved. Our wethouders, interestingly enough, disagree.      Given that this discussion  is a preparation for a mid term evaluation to occur in few weeks, between fractie, bestuur and wethouders, our ALV of yesterday promised interesting tension fields and sharp discussion… and I am looking forward!