Petty harassment is what accomplished this?  I guess I must be a Pollyanna, then  --  I'd been thinking it was a belated recognition of the only vote our City government has allowed on the issue of water fluoridation.  

Our local "anti" groups have been trying for years simply to get the right to put this question to a popular vote.  The City has been refusing for years  --  even to the point of being sued for the right to put the issue on the ballot.  

The best outcome to Mayor Downey's belated change of heart is that we finally get to let the people of PA decide whether they want their water to be fluoridated.  

The vote we will finally get to have in 2017 is the vote we should have been allowed to have in 2006, when the Council of that time unilaterally decided to sign a fool's contract, ten years long and with a huge cancellation penalty, with no input at all from their constituents.