Thank you Mr. Doyon for summarizing and coming up with suggestions concerning the city's involvement in SME/HGS.
I appreciate his acknowledging that resolution #9537 gave the city manager way too much authority and essentially gave away valuable city time and energy to a project that not only the citizens were not given the right to approve, but a project in which the citizens cannot participate.
With regard to his suggestion that responsibility should shift from the city manager's office to ECP, I have a concern.
It has been mentioned several times that there currently is no ECP board member familiar enough with this industry. If this is an option to be considered, the City Commission better reorganize this board and get members appointed who have a clue. Otherwise, it will be real easy, as it already has been proven, for SME to continue to hoodwink the city. Ignorance, in this case, is not bliss.
And if this board were to gain more responsibility, the City Commission better start to uphold Title 2 of the city charter that states if members of city boards/councils miss more than three meetings, they can be replaced.
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Thanks for posting and lets hope the spirit of transparency can prevail and glad Mr. Doyon appreciates that civic value.
According to the rules there are two board members who need to be replaced. This may be the opportunity to get someone knowledgable and willing to put in the necessary time to keep up with this complex situation.....
It would also be nice to have at least one board member who did NOT have a conflict of interest.
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