Council Wastes Time and Money
Sometimes the need for democracy needs to give way to the need to stop bad ideas from going forward and wasting everyone’s precious time. That axiom should be engraved above the hall at the City-County building right above the Council chambers.
Councilors did not get the chance to vote on a 75-percent pay raise because sponsor Roselle Boyd, withdrew the measure. Of course this wasn’t until a number of public hearings, power point presentations and a lot of people coming out and getting their very valuable time wasted.
There was never any support for this. Boyd’s own caucus told me there was no support for this. No Republican was going to vote for this. And the sad part is that all this is taking place against a backdrop of a city spiraling down into financial abyss. Someone should have stood up and shown leadership and kept this silliniess from ever seeing the light of day.
Boyd is a smart man. I respect his appreciation for intellectual pursuits. However, the problem with intellectuals is that they tend to spend a lot of time studying things that regular people already know. And a lot of regular people knew a 75-percent pay raise was a bad idea that should have never seen the light of day.
