What is an Ordinance?
Regulation or Law, as in: The city council passed an ordinance against disturbing the peace.www.business-words.com/dictionary/O.html
Does common sense tell you that as an elected official and when you take your oath of office , that you should freely swear/affirm to uphold the Laws/Ordinances you are charged with overseeing, administering and legislating?
And the sitting Clatsop County Board of Commissioners wants to sidestep that in their oath by leaving "Upholding all Ordinances" out of their oath?
It truly seems they believe they actually are an "Island Unto Themselves" and are completely unaccountable to the community they vow to serve.
And now, two of those characters that scoff at honoring the ordinancees of the county, one, over the airwaves, publicly chortling that honoring these ordinances could get one recalled by simply "wearing a certain type dress" and the other, as well, accusing another County Commissioner of a "Witch Hunt" in even wanting to change the County Oath of Office to include honoring all County Ordinances, wants to spend our tax money to go to Washington to attend a Federal Energy Commission meeting on the presumed current disposition of Bradwood Landing, where they have no testimony or input at all to just show their faces in representing our community?
I ask; What's the point?
They want to do something productive for us, get out there and find us some good clean industry to invite here that can put thousands in our community to work at good, living wage, sustainable jobs instead of just giving it lip service and waiting to abet the next wave of "Speculators" to wedge their jack boots in our door, uninvited by the community.
Better yet, take that $2-3,000(+) and donate it to the County Food Bank.
Any wonder why ammended County Comprehensive Plan and ammended Land Development and Water Use "Ordinance", 08-05's validity would be questioned by the Citizens of Clatsop County and Measure 4-131 get so much traction?
2 comments:
Ann Samuelson was ranting and raving about how the county didn't have money for the Healthy Start program and where were they going to find the money.
Well they canceled the program but maybe if they didn't take junkets to Washington DC on the Clatsop taxpayers pocket they could fund that program for at risk kids!
At least pay County Counsel, Blair Henningsgaard or Andy Jordan or both for a Daturday Seminar on the ins and outs of how important it is to know exactly what their job is when it comes "Ordinances".
The reason County Consel is there is to make sure they don;t trample all over them to our detriment.
Go to a FERC meeting in DC for no reason?
Let's put that money to better use in real "Community Building" that benefits the people those two serve.
Those two, Samuelson and Hazen, want to go, let them pay their own way and expenses.
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