Request of County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa....
This Strong Mayor thing...Not working. How about a Charter Change Resolution to rescind the Strong Mayor form of government so we all can vote on it. You know you have the votes on the Commission to put it on the 2016 ballot.
I admit, I was an idiot to support it. If Rebeca with one "c" will not do it, who will? You did say it was not working Ms. Becky. So please help us.
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| The Strong Mayor form of Government is just not working. (Carlos Alvarez, our first Strong Mayor) |
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I think you would need to rebalance the county commission at the same time, perhaps with a second charter amendment, to provide that a majority of county commissioners should be elected by a county-wide vote. We need to reverse the Balkanization of the county commission.
DO NOT COMPLICATE MY POST. One thing only please.
You're so right. We desparately need this change to our charter. We were fools to vote for it.
It's not confusing the issue. Could go back to 9 districts with the election countywide. After all the only reason we have the current gerrymandered set up is court ordered and race-based. And it's the ability of the mayor to manipulate the current 13 narrow interests against each other that gives him his power.
Yes you are...only one issue on a ballot. Do your own article for your change. I think it is good but it is not helping my change.
ONLY ONE ISSUE on a ballot question.
GET IT??? ONE
The lobbyists would absolutely love going back to the bad ole days of a "weak" mayor when the county commission and county bureaucracy ran amok. Spread the wealth again! Chaos equals profit! Power vacuum equals opportunity!
We have had sorry ass "executive" mayors, but even sorrier ass county managers (Stierheim, Burgess, Shiver, et al). I will concede most did their best under a terrible system.
We should do a charter change for a true "strong" mayor instead of the hybrid "executive" mayor system we now have.
At least now we know whom to blame, or even pat on the back every so often (less and less often, I will concede). A true "strong" mayor system would mean a separation of powers. Legislative branch, executive branch. It works.
P.S. The verificatin process for publishing comments is just crazy complicated. I just can't figure out which is a "pie" and which isn't!
Please Commissioner Sosa save us. We need more of a balance.
We really didn't get a strong mayor. He doesn't manage he lets all his assistant mayors manage. We just have more salaries and a dictator.
I was pleased to read Comm. Sosa's quote in the Herald earlier this year- "I think the strong mayor is hurting us" - it's more than hurting is destroying us! Incompetence concentrated in a one know-it-all individual is a bad combination. The charter change was done sloppily and we've seen the consequences.
If at least this mayor was a good manager (which is what he thinks he is) we would be in a better place- but his disregard for expert council continues to put our community at risk.
A repeal if the strong mayor will get us in the right track- let's amend the Charter please.
Commissioner Sosa is my district's commissioner. Other than calling her office staff in support of the idea, any suggestions to how to get this campaign off of the ground?
Yes. Call her office staff.
Not to restate the obvious, but looking at Alvarez's photo, I would think that he is still the county's only strong mayor!
Gimenez is a puff ball.
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