Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
July 27, 2020

Dear Readers:

Attached are my meeting notes from last night’s meeting along with a letter from the Dorchester County NAACP regarding the upcoming election. While I have talked about the upcoming election in earlier reports, understand that everyone wants an open and honest election, and I believe that we will have that and more as a result of the planning for the upcoming election on October 17th. In order to encourage voting by every registered voter, they will be mailed a ballot at his or her address as known by the County Election Board.

We have an excellent and knowledgeable private provider in place. As the Supervisor of Elections will be mailing out ballots to every registered voter in the city; if you have moved since you last registered and have not updated that information, please do so at the county election office. If you choose to vote in person rather than by mail or by absentee ballot, the Supervisor of Elections with the assistance and approval of the Election Judges has chosen the Cambridge Center of Chesapeake College on Race Street for the place to vote. There are entrances to the building from Race Street and from the rear parking lot.

Every Candidate will be allowed to have a poll watcher to observe what is happening at the polls as well as process for the Election Judges opening the mail in ballots. Every effort is being made to ensure that every vote counts.

When you see the results of this years voting for the Mayor and City Council, remember our last election in July 2016. Four of the six races were uncontested. With each Ward having around 1750 registered voters, we had the following voting totals:

Ward 1 – Steve Rideout – 145
Ward 2 – Donald Sydnor – 50
Ward 3 – LaShon Foster – 179 to 166 for Frank Cooke = 345 total
Ward 4 – Dave Cannon 151 to 139 for Dion Banks = 290 total
Ward 5- Robbie Hanson – 60

Mayor – Victoria Jackson Stanley – 653

I hope that every race this year will be contested and that voters will be able to hear from the candidates about their positions on the important issues facing the city.

Thanks for reading.

Steve

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Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
July 14, 2020

Dear Readers:

Attached please find my informal report on last night’s meeting of the Cambridge City Council. As with all meetings there were some interesting discussions. Unlike other meetings this one went quite long.

I have tried to condense what happened to provide you with the basics of the issue and outcomes.

Steve

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Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
July 5, 2020

Dear Readers:

Attached please find my report on what city council has done (not all of it) over the past 6 months. To remind you of what we did from July 1-December 25 of 2019, I am also attaching my prior report to you.

I hope that they are helpful. They do not cover everything that was done but those things that I think are the most important for the management and future of the city.

Let me know if you have questions. I have taken the information from my prior Cambridge Matters reports.

Steve

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