Council Wastes $ on a Special Election?

 You might think you missed something at the council meeting Monday night.  I was there, and I missed it too! Because it didn’t happen—nobody announced that a group of Cascade citizens got almost 200 signatures to force a special election for the seat Council put Sue Knepper in. The election will be Tues. 29 March.   Call the election commission now, and order an absentee ballot, if you want to vote at home.   

          Custom, tradition and logic has put the highest council vote-getter in an empty council seat, even if there has been some passage of time. If the mayor resigned or died, it might make some sense to put a mayoral candidate in there. For some reason council didn’t want the next highest vote-getter—Bill Hosch. 

    
        Acting City Administrator Chris Hill did, however, announce that both Jones and Dubuque Counties will charge us upwards of $2,000 to schlep the machines out here, pay poll watchers and count votes. So, Cascade will waste almost $5,000 because the city council refuses to follow custom and tradition and logic. 

            If you missed the meeting, you probably missed my award to council: Booby Prize for Concern over Senior Health & Safety. City plows go by here 50 mph and fill my driveway with compacted ice and snow I can’t remove.  I fell down, broke my arm and have been fair to middling miserable for the past 5 weeks. (Yeah, it’s my cast with a black bow on it!)