This year’s round of city council elections look to be a non-event. (Well, except for Joni Balter calling everyone who didn’t ran weenies. And besides her, who still uses that word?)

But, in a perverse desire to meet my weekly post quota, I think we should go find out more about the candidates. I’m going to be e-mailing them and sending them a list of questions about the city and its future. But I’m not really up for asking their opinion about the viaduct or what they would do with City Light. No, I want to ask really, really local questions. See, in Seattle, you’re elected at-large, a scenario that at various times has left all of Seattle north of the Ship Canal with ZERO council representatives (and with the retirement of Jackson Park resident Peter Steinbrueck, it could be that way again). But every attempt to convert the council to some form of district system has been shot down by the voters. We don’t want ward politics, they say. (And people wonder why the 2.7 billion neighborhood groups in this city — and their lawyers — have so much power.)

This is where you come in. I need local questions. Look around your neighborhood. What’s wrong? What could the city fix? Submit a question or three in the comment box. And then I’ll round them up and send them out to this year’s candidates. And we’ll see how they react. I’m expecting it’ll mostly be press secretaries coming back with some 500 word version of “no comment.” But who knows?

(And if you do have a non-micro-local question you do want to ask, you can submit that, too. Just nothing about the viaduct, please.)