While I have been salivating since about 10:34 AM to post about this (but I was working) I see Mrs. Holsen beat me to the punch;
I agree that the City Council’s latest action in passing a resolution prohibiting the mayor from spending down the city’s reserves without council approval is a move to tighten control of the mayor, but to say there has been no attempt by Huether to change the reserve’s healthy level is a head scratcher.  Maybe the Editorial Board should start reading its own reporters’ news articles.
The mayor has stated in the past that surplus money will go into the cookie jar for the event center. His actions regarding cuts in departmental budgets and program services and going after employee pay and benefits to ensure the reserve fund continues to build a healthy balance for his EC vision is telling.  It may be a knee jerk reaction of the city council but, then the mayor has not been playing very nice with the city council despite his energetic projections on how he and the council were going to be a team and play nice together when he took office.
There are also several other expenditures he has approved without city council approval. This resolution approval by the city council was a smart move on many levels, even though Mike tried to play ‘Stimpy‘ when they voted on it. But it doesn’t stop the extremely out of touch, ignorant, isolated, idiotic AL editorial board to comment on something they know nothing freaking about, really, they don’t;
But it’s exactly this type of knee-jerk reaction to Huether’s style – rather than the result of a clearly articulated reason – that’s becoming tiresome.
Huh? Not only did the finance committee discuss this for 3 months, they had an unanimous vote on it, on top of that, this has been on the books since 2007. Knee-jerk reaction? Give me a break. You are out-of-line just like the mayor.
What kind of deal have you cooked up with Mike? Seriously? Does it have to do with the EC? Does it have to do with your credit rating? One wonders? I’m starting to think he gives you weekly beatings if you don’t let him say and do what he wants.
Myself? The guy doesn’t scare me, in fact, I find him quite comical, especially how he manages to hoodwink everyone. Keep it up AL Ed Board. I’ll keep laughing. As our city goes down the tubes.