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Mayor rotation post-mortem

5/28/14 City Council meeting open thread

The current city council has continued prior councils' practice of not providing written summary minutes of council discussion, but only "action minutes" which state the outcomes. Encinitas Undercover will provide a forum for observers to record what occurs at each council meeting.

Please use the comments to record your observations.

Tonight should be quite a circus. Generating the most heat will be the majority's ill-advised Mean Girls stunt, where they welsh on their end of last December's power-sharing bargain and strip Kristin Gaspar of her turn as mayor. Our spider sense tells us they may back down in the face of public criticism, but they've been stubborn and wrong plenty of times before.

But of more substance this evening will be Bob Bonde's presentation on ambulance services, as well as more budget discussion.

Lisa Shaffer doesn't want to hear your opinion until after she's done whatever it is she's going to do

Really?  You put something this inflammatory onto the agenda at the last minute and you expect the public to shut up until it's a fait accompli?

Somebody needs a remedial course in civics.

Open letter on Pacific View

Encinitas City Council and residents,

It's time to take a deep breath before we dive into this one. If we proceed, some changes in the proposed contract should be made. These two related elements must be addressed in concert. The first is the action plan on this purchase proposed by the City Manager:

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A reference to our city council?

Barth calls for asking questions and debating issues in an open forum; Lisa Shaffer deletes Facebook post where her constituents tried to do just that

Mayor Barth on the Kranz-Shaffer plan to strip Kristin Gaspar of her unanimously agreed turn as mayor (from Barth's weekly newsletter):

Encinitas mayor-sharing deal unraveling The council initiated option allows individual council members to place an item on the agenda for full council discussion at a public meeting. It is unfortunate that some critics do not recognize that asking questions and debating issues in an open forum is a more transparent and honest approach.

We wonder who those critics are who can't see that a move to take away Kristin Gaspar's turn as mayor in a unanimously agreed power-sharing deal after Barth has already had her turn is just "asking questions and debating issues in an open forum."

And we wish Barth had had this philosophy of open debate on Prop A, the most important recent public policy issue in Encinitas.  But perhaps open debate is only appropriate for high school drama.

Nevertheless, Lisa Shaffer did take to her public Councilmember Lisa Shaffer Facebook page to defend the move.



We were really looking forward to an answer to those questions. Then another of Shaffer's constituents came along and commented.



Finally, Shaffer responded. You can see her response here.