2^nd Monday of the Month—Be There

Critical Eye is remiss in not encouraging readers to attend the Cascade City Council meeting tonight. On the agenda is discussion of making Shelly Annis interim city administrator and disabling the devices that monitor some people's water use, so that they will be charged sewer fees on every drop of though it goes on the lawn.

Not that Cascade City Council meetings are not problematic to begin with for two reasons:

1. With such short meetings how can the difficult issues the city is currently dealing with be adequately discussed? When I was on council, meetings sometimes lasted two hours! Or more!
2. Being on the Sidewalk Committee, I have seen how Mr. Kearney and the Mayor in action. At one of the very early Sidewalk Committee meetings, the Mayor arrived with a plan fully formed, outlined it to us, and when I raised objections (that $50,000 wasn't enough), he cut the head off discussion saying, “I know the budget; I know council, and I know what they will go for—if you want a sidewalk budget, this is it.”

Yes, sir! Mr. My-Way-or-the-Highway! We got the Critical Eye fixed on you!