UPDATE: I just recommend you view the meeting. It got really complicated really fast. Basically the CRC approved a ballot measure that, if passed by the voters, it would give ‘permission’ to the Council to create a committee and wage study for mayor and councilors. Hey, CRC, you know, the council can pass a resolution ANY Tuesday to approve this study, and they should, so we can put this stupid raise BS to bed. Councilor Merkouris testified that he was against this, I can’t remember all he said, but he did recognize that the perception and trust right now between the council and the public is pretty low and that the council needed to work on that before asking for a raise. Yah Think?!
I also found it ironic, once again, that the only items approved for the ballot were presented by city staff and CRC members. Why are CRC members presenting anything? That is NOT your job. These folks are obviously tone deaf, but I’m starting to think more and more they are also brain dead. You should listen to their CEO corporate argument BS, classic Rush 1997.
I hope when the video is posted the ending isn’t edited. So at the end they adjourned, and someone in the crowd wanted to say something further, and the chair told them it was already adjourned. Which, was the correct answer. But this person kept bugging folks that he wanted to speak, so the clerk, I think Denise, whispers to the chair, ‘Quick, do a voice vote, do a voice vote.’ and then the video cuts. It was funny because watching how these meetings have been run lately is like watching amateur hour.
MAYOR TENFOLD HAS AN EXIT STRATEGY
It’s just to bad it doesn’t include him moving out of the state. Probably does.
It’s a fascinating article (not really).
Poops is going to be a C-Suite CEO Leadership Mentor, says we can solve homelessness by having churches adopt transients and his greatest achievement as mayor was the leadership team he compiled. Yeah, that one made me keel over in laughter. Is this the same leadership team you pretty much fired? Or at least half of them? Do I need to provide the list? It is FREAKY long . . . he even once went to the public works garage and fired a pothole crew worker. He did something naughty, but NOT fire worthy. It really was a misunderstanding and I think an apology would have sufficed to the VIP who complained to Poops. Did you know Paul got booted out of a major fitness center before he was mayor. I asked this person why and he said Paul was doing ‘proselytizing’ workouts and taking over rooms and the establishment said, good bye.
It all makes sense NOW! This is why he likes to do jumping jacks with kids at the private Christian schools, he can only get a good workout if the good lord is watching over it. The other day I cramped up after a long bike ride, and I did quite a bit of ‘proselytizing’ 🙂
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We saw the tone deafness of the city council on full display Tuesday night, but proposing a ballot question that gives themselves raises in this economy and their piss poor performance is the epitome of TONE DEAF. Hey, it may not pass the muster of the Charter Revision Commission. They have two proposals on the table;
A one time bump or course correction and changing the percentage of mayoral pay that is afforded to the city council. Currently the council gets 15% of mayor’s salary, they want to bump it to 25%. I actually think it should be 10% and we should have at least 4-5 more councilors instead of paying more for less representation, it’s idiotic. But they are so tone deaf the CRC will pass this, the Council will review the ballot question and approve it for the June election. This will fail soooooo hard it is not even funny. They already tried this 2 years ago and we voted it down. They don’t get it. Seriously!!!
Scott, in the event the CRC passes this through, we got to make sure they amend their proposal and put stipulations on the salary increase — “…no increase in salary shall go into effect until after the next city election”
The council always adopts their own raises, and I do not think they should be voting on their salary increase. The raise should not be effective immediately. All raises should be subject to the next election cycle. And I like your idea of about adding 4-5 districts, and cutting their pay by 10-15%.
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