Wait, you didn't have floride in the water? That's like Dr. Strangelove or something.

Anyway, my impulse on all sorts of decisions like that is that public bodies and public reps engage their public before getting to the point of having to cast the vote. It just makes sense from every point of view. If I'm a citizen, I know I'll have a chance to give my 2 cents. If I'm an elected, I'll have cover and be able to say, we talked to a lot of people and here's why we're making this decision. One of the visions of our project is that there be a common place that everyone knows is the place to participate in these sorts of conversations (in addition to traditional public processes).