Comments on: Council votes to modify mayoral selection http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/council-votes-to-modify-mayoral-selection/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Wed, 22 May 2013 21:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Real Encinitas http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/council-votes-to-modify-mayoral-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-16076 Real Encinitas Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:25:27 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=46780#comment-16076 The Mayor rotation was not ‘broken.’ Having 1 year terms was a way that Encinitas citizens from all sides were assured greater represenation. It also allowed for Council to work better as a group when power was not placed into the hands of the same person for too long.

]]> By: Lynn Marr http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/council-votes-to-modify-mayoral-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-14861 Lynn Marr Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:36:27 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=46780#comment-14861 What Councilmembers Muir, Gaspar and current Mayor Stocks did once again would deny Teresa Barth an opportunity to be Mayor, until at least 2016, if she decides to run for a third term, and if she receives the most votes for her election. No discussion of Stocks’ second substitute motion was held, either by Council, or public speakers. The two-year term rotational alternative wasn’t on the agenda. Since appointment of Mayor is codified, part of EMC, as a one-year term selected by council majority, then in order to formally change Municipal Code, a change to a 2 year term must be introduced, after a full staff report, as a specific agenda item. Creating a new ordinance requires a second reading. No short cuts!

If someone is to be granted a two-year term as mayor, he or she should have to run for that position! Councilmembers need to CHOOSE if they are willing to NOT RUN for Council, but for mayor, instead.

We know of no other city where a prerequisite for running for mayor is to have previously served on Council. “New blood” would be great for our Council! Requiring candidates to have served on council in order to run for mayor is an attempt to codify the power of incumbency.

Excellent plans for a fair rotational method, which did take into account who receives the most votes at election, were offered by Lisa Shaffer and Sheila Cameron. City attorney Sabine should have spoken up about the impropriety of the 2nd substitute motion, without first “vetting” that plan through a staff report and a specific agenda item, addressing the 2 year term, so that public speakers could participate. Never explained was why Stocks described this as an interim policy?

]]> By: Protect Community Character http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/council-votes-to-modify-mayoral-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-14384 Protect Community Character Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:45:20 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=46780#comment-14384 Teresa and her supporters are upset because they are making it harder for her to do her job in advancing our concerns as her constituents. The title of Mayor is much more than cerimonial since the Mayor can appoint Council members to committees and can agendize items.

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