There's Democracy & There's Democracy

 Last Tuesday, the day before the agenda deadline, I sent the city council an ordinance I drafted:

The city administrator will be subject to voter approval in all biennial elections. Citizens will be able to assess his/her/their performance by answering yes or no to the following question to be placed on the ballot every two years: Shall City Administrator _________________(insert name  of current administrator) be retained for another two years?

Only when I got the agenda, I wasn’t on it. And everybody knows you cannot take action on a matter unless you are officially set for discussion and a vote. So I will try again next time.

Cascade has had some notoriously undemocratic administrators, and the fault may be council’s. Just checking the building permits, we see a variation of violation of city ordinance:

1)      A couple have been issued in violation of the 80-20 green space provision.
2)      Only 3 (Delaney, Kelchen & Rausch) signed off on them; there are 5 council people; all of them in rotation should sign building permits.

3)      With some, it is difficult to tell whether they violate code or not.

Council happily tolerated this undemocratic situation, so you might want contact Councilman Delaney and Councilwoman Oliphant and tell them you want your voice to be on this issue. Otherwise, these sorts of abuses will continue.

I will try to post some more of them in the coming days so you have plenty of evidence.  However, it really looks spring, and I got to get out there and start gardening, picking up sticks.

Yeah Spring!!!