Our item is listed last on the agenda.  It will feature pro-fluoridation presentations by the usual suspects.  Professionals from Fluoride Free Austin:  dentists, physicians and Ph.D. scientists will have a half hour in which to respond.  Then, our opponents “from the community” will take their half hour turn. Since nobody from “the community” has arrived to speak in favor of fluoride in the two and a half years of Fluoride Free Austin’s existence, Shade’s office has actively sought “volunteers” through the dental and medical societies. This latest information is based on the agenda—not posted until Friday afternoon—and a conversation with the policy aide in charge on Friday.  It has been extremely difficult to get accurate information out of Shade’s office over the past several weeks.

We need a huge attendance for this first official airing of Austin’s water fluoridation issue in nearly 40 years.  Be there—whether you speak or not—and wear your yellow and blue anti-fluoride sticker proudly!   We’ll also have some creative signs available.  City hall is located at 301 W. Second Street, between Guadalupe and Lavaca.  Validated parking in the building’s underground garage can be accessed from the Lavaca side.  
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Also, don’t forget the Candidates Forum set for later the same evening, 6:30 p.m. at Memorial United Methodist Church, 6100 Berkman Drive.  Shade, Morrison—both PHHS committee members—and Chris Riley will all be there along with their challengers for re-election in May.  While we don’t recommend taking over this event (there are other issues), it will provide an opportunity to show them that we’re here—and we vote.

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