The contrast between how an ordinary citizen with an issue before the Cascade City Council and Mike Beck is currently on full view. During the pool construction, the city brought heavy equipment on my lawn, tore up the grass, and I want to be reimbursed for fixing it. I was not there for the discussion because the city had previously published that meetings were closed because of Covid. The following meeting Mayor Pro-temp Andrew Kelchen rudely refused to hear it or tell me to put it back on the agenda.
Meanwhile Mike Beck gets a special meeting to discuss breaking his promise to the city to run a street to the park he gave the city—limestone outcropping land he can’t dig a basement in and can’t sell anyway. And there is lots of discussion:
1) The street to the park will be closed and then he has another lot to sell for $50,000
2) City workers are against it because a cul-de-sac is far harder to (snow) plow and becomes a safety issue.
3) More hard surface (an additional house, garage, and driveway) invalidates the drainage plan, which is already a problem.
They are starting over with the special meeting bit, because they screwed it up on the first try, and Councilman Hosch called them on it. But if you are an ordinary citizen, don’t count on getting one, you get a rude ration…