Pat Lesko has a simple but radical idea: require voters’ permission before the city issues “general obligation” bonds. She got the idea after working on a petition drive last year that tried to force a vote on the bonds for the City Hall addition. That group needed to collect 10,000 signatures in forty-five days but fell 4,000 short.

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