An Anniversary of Sorts

It’s an anniversary of sorts: For a whole year, other than one meeting in early August 2024, to watch citizens toss out Lisa Kotter out on her inglorious bum, I have not attended a Cascade City Council meeting. I said nothing at that meeting, because neither I heard or saw there led me to believe that the systemic corruption of the entitled making every decision to suit their fancies continues unabated. Earlier on in the summer, a man who I had seen at only one council meeting tells me how “Much Mike Beck has done for this community…” I almost barfed on his shoes. Since I have been back from Florida this year, I had a beer with the Mayor, and he tells me it cost us $50,000 to fix the sewer line Beck transferred to the city several years back. Last year, Feb. 2024, when I got back to town, I discovered an end run around democracy: Ms. Kotter and the entitled, instead of a public discussion and decision about where the dog park should be moved to, it was decided behind closed doors to put it in Oak Hill. By the middle of July new pickleball courts were sited there despite the fact that it is not centrally located, and a community should not be using public money to augment property values in its well-off neighborhoods.