Seriously
This is a rather silly editorial, isn't it?
On the heels of a very detailed and thorough explanation of what the local government has been doing to address the drought - including pointing out that the state government is using our community's drought management plan as a model to address the larger impact of our lack of rain - we get the same old, same old ... 'we need a plan ... they gotta hurry ... the sky is(n't) falling.'
And to attempt to discredit their work by pointing out the, yes, ridiculous focus on the consent agenda is terribly misguided. Believe it or not, it's possible for the commission to focus on those trivial things and develop the Step F proposal for drought management. Are we to believe that an additional two hours of debate over sidewalk widening, as mind-numbing as it can be, is going to cause them to say 'gee, I'm tired ... let's just forget about this whole drought thing' ...
What's the end game with this?
On the heels of a very detailed and thorough explanation of what the local government has been doing to address the drought - including pointing out that the state government is using our community's drought management plan as a model to address the larger impact of our lack of rain - we get the same old, same old ... 'we need a plan ... they gotta hurry ... the sky is(n't) falling.'
And to attempt to discredit their work by pointing out the, yes, ridiculous focus on the consent agenda is terribly misguided. Believe it or not, it's possible for the commission to focus on those trivial things and develop the Step F proposal for drought management. Are we to believe that an additional two hours of debate over sidewalk widening, as mind-numbing as it can be, is going to cause them to say 'gee, I'm tired ... let's just forget about this whole drought thing' ...
What's the end game with this?
posted by Jmac at 10:01 AM
6 Comments:
I didn't write it, but I think the point of the editorial might have been that the current field of ACC Commissioners are pedantic tenured types with close to zero real-world leadership and management experience and capabilities, with a tendency to becomed mired in meaningless minutiae, fiddling in trivialities while Rome--or, in this case, Athens--burns--or, in this case, dies of thirst.
That might've been the point.
... with close to zero real-world leadership and management experience and capabilities ...
Except for the fact that they're, you know, elected officials.
Regardless, your criticism makes no sense and isn't grounded in the realities of the situation. Particularly since this community's drought management plan is the model the state intends to implement, that we've cut back on water consumption by 25 percent and the local government (staff and commission) are already examining ways to best execute Step F.
I mean, last time I checked, Carl Jordan may enjoy scrutinizing the consent agenda, but he could also chew gum and walk at the same time.
And it forgets that the agenda-setting mtg is the first time the Commissioners get to see most things, as the agenda is put together by the Mayor, the Mayor pro-tem, and the Clerk. And, you can imagine the editorials that would be written if something passed through the Commission w/out having been addressed by them. In the ABH's eyes, they can't win either way.
Is "real-world" an alternate for "business" or "private sector"?
I think that's probably how anon and many critics of ACC use the term, yes. Probably not a fair way to frame the debate, but that does seem to be how people use the term.
Yep, because it's not like the M&C have to deal w/ the real world or anything is it? Yep, not like they have to deal w/ the collective desires and complaints of 110k people, plus interactions w/ the state and feds, plus worry about how to fund the services people want but w/out the taxes they don't want to pay to do so. Nope, I'd definitely say the M&C live in an environment unconnected to the real world.
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