Spent the weekend reading old Cascade City Council notes in The Cascade Interpreter, which I published between August 1989 to the Winter of 1994, because an editor has expressed interest in an article trying to answer the question-- How does a city administrator affect democracy in a town? If he will pay me, I’ll write it. Anyway, I stumbled on this interesting bit in my coverage of the Monday, March 11th 1992 meeting:
Tom
Engleken of Northway Well & Pump appeared at the invitation of City Administrator
Larry Farley to estimate for pulling and maintaining the well pump. This has
not been done since 1976 and should, ideally, be done every five to seven
years.
Engleken
said, “It probably needs bearings.”
Councilman
Pat “Blackie” Lyons (then a mechanic running his own automotive repair shop) replied,
“I can’t believe it wouldn’t!”
Reading that, I fell out laughing thinking of the recent June 26th meeting. At it, the City administrator Lisa Kotter reported that the pump in well #5 had perhaps fallen down the shaft or was stuck in it. In any case, the pump repair company was called.
I checked with city hall this morning, Clerk Kathy Goerdt says that the repair company has yet to appear because they are busy elsewhere. We all better pray they get here soon and nothing happens to #6.
So here we are, spending $50,000 for a promo & party planning position, but it seems we are not doing any better than previous councils at taking care of the infrastructure of this 100+ year-old town.
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