A Local Newspaper’s Quote of the Day
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 7/15/10 @ 9:23 am - Filed Under City Council
From their editorial supporting Mayor Henry’s proposal to create a task force which would look at changing what city contracts require city council approval:
After a bit of saber-rattling and defensiveness over City Council criticism of consultant contracts, Mayor Tom Henry proposed a common-sense, fair method of addressing the issue.
Henry created a panel that includes Council President Marty Bender and two other council members. In a move that was both practical and politically savvy, Henry asked Bender to appoint critics of the contracts from each party, Republican Liz Brown and Democrat Glynn Hines. The panel will also give Henry a voice by including new Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy and have a somewhat neutral member, City Clerk Sandy Kennedy, whose office serves as the council’s secretary and record-keeper.
Neutral? Are they kidding? There’s nothing wrong with Kennedy being a choice for the panel but let’s not pretend that she would be neutral. That is disingenuous. Of course the whole idea of a panel is ridiculous in the first place. We elect members of city council to legislate and we don’t need a special panel to help them do that.
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Another unnecessary layer of government, which, of course, the Journal Gazette loves. Why doesn’t Council simply review all contracts? Isn’t that their job? Change the ordinance. It wasn’t all that hard for Council and the Mayor to demolish those 2 blocks of Calhoun St and kill all those trees?