Dear Creekers,
It takes two council meetings to pass a town ordinance. Our present town council has said it will take another year of work before the town’s General Plan will be submitted to us for our vote of approval. Mayoral committees are formed so that an issue can be fully investigated before being decided. But it took only one meeting and about five minutes of discussion by the mayor and council members to irreversibly and permanently change our unique town. We won’t see the bulldozers as early as tomorrow, but even when we do there will be nothing we can do to change the course. Our mayor and town council took that power away from us and, at the same time, made sure that no future mayor or town council will have the power of change, either.
This will be their legacy.
I would like to think their hearts were in the right place when making their decision to allow a town within our town, but first a heart must be present, and there is no evidence of that. One cannot give away the heart and soul of what Cave Creek is and claim to have a heart. There are Creekers who understand how our future is determined by the council’s decision to allow another town to exist within our town. It is truly sad that no one with this understanding is sitting on our town council.
Several Creekers attended the April 20, 2015 town council meeting when Revitalization District Resolution No. 2015-13 was approved. They stood at the podium, asking questions--to which they received no answers--and requesting that our mayor and council members give more citizens an opportunity to express their voice and their choice about such an important issue before they decide the issue for us. After all, what was the rush? There is nothing in the law which would have prevented our mayor from allowing this to be delayed. The brave Creekers who spoke in passionate defense of our town and against approval of Revitalization District Resolution No. 2015-13 were subjected to a lack of professional decorum by the mayor and this council that would be neither legal nor tolerated in a work place environment.
According to our town clerk Carrie Dyrek, the clock is ticking. Creekers have less than thirty days to initiate and complete a referendum campaign. Even a successful referendum campaign, however, will not change the dark and ugly underbelly of Cave Creek politics. This is what Creekers truly want to change about our town. And, this is the course those of us who oppose the mayor and town council’s approval of Revitalization District Resolution No. 2015-13 will be pursuing.
It is now more important than ever that Creekers attend the informal meeting at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 28th. We all have many, many questions, but the most important question the mayor should be asked is “Why?”
See you at the meeting,
Janelle Smith-Haff
www.cavecreektownhallblog.com
[email protected]
April 23, 2015
It takes two council meetings to pass a town ordinance. Our present town council has said it will take another year of work before the town’s General Plan will be submitted to us for our vote of approval. Mayoral committees are formed so that an issue can be fully investigated before being decided. But it took only one meeting and about five minutes of discussion by the mayor and council members to irreversibly and permanently change our unique town. We won’t see the bulldozers as early as tomorrow, but even when we do there will be nothing we can do to change the course. Our mayor and town council took that power away from us and, at the same time, made sure that no future mayor or town council will have the power of change, either.
This will be their legacy.
I would like to think their hearts were in the right place when making their decision to allow a town within our town, but first a heart must be present, and there is no evidence of that. One cannot give away the heart and soul of what Cave Creek is and claim to have a heart. There are Creekers who understand how our future is determined by the council’s decision to allow another town to exist within our town. It is truly sad that no one with this understanding is sitting on our town council.
Several Creekers attended the April 20, 2015 town council meeting when Revitalization District Resolution No. 2015-13 was approved. They stood at the podium, asking questions--to which they received no answers--and requesting that our mayor and council members give more citizens an opportunity to express their voice and their choice about such an important issue before they decide the issue for us. After all, what was the rush? There is nothing in the law which would have prevented our mayor from allowing this to be delayed. The brave Creekers who spoke in passionate defense of our town and against approval of Revitalization District Resolution No. 2015-13 were subjected to a lack of professional decorum by the mayor and this council that would be neither legal nor tolerated in a work place environment.
According to our town clerk Carrie Dyrek, the clock is ticking. Creekers have less than thirty days to initiate and complete a referendum campaign. Even a successful referendum campaign, however, will not change the dark and ugly underbelly of Cave Creek politics. This is what Creekers truly want to change about our town. And, this is the course those of us who oppose the mayor and town council’s approval of Revitalization District Resolution No. 2015-13 will be pursuing.
It is now more important than ever that Creekers attend the informal meeting at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 28th. We all have many, many questions, but the most important question the mayor should be asked is “Why?”
See you at the meeting,
Janelle Smith-Haff
www.cavecreektownhallblog.com
[email protected]
April 23, 2015
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