"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Thursday 18 August 2011

A Question Posed . Here's One Answer.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Walk-About":

This is such a simple question with an obvious answer.

If Council spends as much time on the land issue relative to value as it did on the park apparatus the matter will still be in discussion during the term of the next council.

I find that several councillors are unable to express themselves in simple organized sentences and the thoughts or opinions they are attempting to state become blurred and unintelligible.

Possibly they should consider writing out in advance exactly what they would like to say and then stick to the script.

It must be frustrating to sit around the table, paying close attention to one's fellow councillors, and at the conclusion of their remarks, not understand what they have just said.

This is very often the case with motions where no one seems to have a clue what the mover said or meant and the exercise needs to be repeated, often more than once.

Finally, there should be a procedural change restricting a delegate to two appearances on a given issue. Last Tuesday was a complete waste of time on the part of several delegates and contributed to Council's inability to deal with the Agenda.

1 comment:

LivingInAurora.ca said...

Evelyn, you wrote: 'I find that several councillors are unable to express themselves in simple organized sentences and the thoughts or opinions they are attempting to state become blurred and unintelligible.'

Oh that is very sad to hear.

Anna :)