Survey: Your feelings on the roads override (and those other overrides, too)

First of all: check out the new Bloggingbelmont.com header graphic. I got tired of the standard Google maps graphic, so I used my handy Powershot to take this panorama pic from the Belmont Center train platform a week or so ago. Hope you like it. If you hate it or its messing up your ability to view the Bloggingbelmont site, let me know and…well…I’ll change it. This site’s about the words, not the graphics, after all!

Now on to business: with the spring town meeting now officially over after three sessions, the town’s attention now turns to the upcoming special election on June 9, when town residents will be asked to consider an override of Proposition 2 1/2. The goal is to raise $2.5m to fund road repairs. Of course, the June 9 vote is just the first in three expected override votes. Others include a debt exclusion vote to fund reconstruction of the Wellington School. The timing of that is unclear, and depends on the state giving the green light to state funds, but could come as early as this summer. There is also an expected operational override vote that will need to accompany the FY10 budget, barring any radical and unplanned improvements in the town’s finances.

With three big votes staring voters in the face, BloggingBelmont is introducing the first-ever reader survey. We’re using a free survey from our friends at surveymonkey.com. This is highly unscientific (can you say “self selecting population”) — but no more so than the polls offered by our esteemed local paper.

A couple notes:

1) The survey appears as a pop-up window when you click the link below. If you don’t see the pop-up window when you click, make sure you have set your Web browser to allow pop-ups (at least for the voices.bloggingbelmont.com Web page), then try again!

2) I’ve had inconsistent results getting the survey to appear at all, depending on the Web browser I’m using. (Did I mention surveymonkey.com is free?) In any case, let me know if you encounter problems viewing the survey and I’ll try to help.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE BLOGGINGBELMONT.COM ROADS OVERRIDE SURVEY — AND THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!