Be warned, this is a 3 hour meeting, so you may have to watch in segments. Also, we have never had much luck recording audio in this room, so there will be some echoing, etc., bare with us.
Be warned, this is a 3 hour meeting, so you may have to watch in segments. Also, we have never had much luck recording audio in this room, so there will be some echoing, etc., bare with us.
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Brekke impressed me. Three hours and nothing enforceable nor hardly definitive.
I’m rather disappointed in the ethics board. They’re only interested in reviewing the legality of past actions. The ethics board should be brave enough to discuss ethics, that’s their name after all! By pretending that ethics and legality are the same, the ethics board does a disservice to us all.
The real ethical issue here does not involve the mayor, rather it concerns our form of local government. It is the size of the current city council, which allows this debate to even happen. If we had a much larger city council, then it would be harder to buy it, and then ethics in general would be more inherent rather than tangent to our form of city government.
Ethics and openness flourish in a true democratic experience. Our city has had a painful process to this end, which has not totally been achieved yet. Our city has gone from a commission system involving three to one that involved five, but our current council system, which was supposed to be the answer to all of this, still only needs four or five to achieve an outcome.
So what we need is a true city council with many members, who represent the many neighborhoods and not just the few developers, if we want ethics to flourish and democracy to truly take hold in our fine town.