Brutus started a series of individual posts about each of the nine proposed city charter amendments.
In Not in my backyard, or maybe yes Brutus wrote about the 1,000 acres of existing development that city council wants to rezone without a public vote. Then in Proposition 5, fox in the hen house he pointed out that the city auditor would report to the city manager if proposition 5 passes. He wondered if the authors were nuts. These were posted on Sunday, the day city hall was demolished.
Saturday Brutus posted Proposition 4, the blank check. It would give the mayor and city council automatic salary adjustments and we would no longer get to decide how much they get paid. I posted Still uncertain. The city has a document on the web site that pretends to explain the proposed changes to the city charter, but of course does not.
Friday Brutus wrote Proposition 3, have one for the smart code. A reader suspects that it may have to do with the ball park. In Say you did it, not me he pointed out how a city representative and the city manager appear to have conspired to lie to city council and the public.
Proposition 2 or the shady deal enabling act came out on Thursday. Brutus had major problems with this proposition. Among other things it would allow council to lease out city property with a simple resolution instead of by ordinance making it simpler for a future council to slip things by the public. I wondered in Hauling what inconveniences would be caused by the 1,000 truckloads soon to be coming out of the old city hall site. A reader evidently thought that asking a question was tantamount to making an accusation.
Brutus wrote Proposition 1, authorizing nothing Wednesday. He pointed out that moving city elections to November would make getting citizen petitions under the city charter much more difficult, thus making it harder to fight city hall. I offered Congratulations El Paso Times.
Tuesday saw Seeing into their hearts, an example of disdain for the public from a city representative and the city manager. Some readers took Brutus to task for this post, while some others defended him. Then I wondered in Got the lead out? if there is going to be an environmental problem with the rubble from city hall.
New Medical Clinics was posted by M. T. Cicero Monday. He suggested ways to avoid building new clinics by using the ones we already have more wisely. I criticized the county plan to spend $162 million in Our two cents.
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