Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The Fox

After a pledge, prayers, boy scouts and a photo-op, the June 8 Springdale City Council Meeting got underway.

About 6:20 minutes into the video, Mayor Sprouse tells us it is time for citizen comments. As a citizen, the mayor's traveling companion, Perry Webb takes the podium and tells the audience how the mayor had asked him - that very morning - to supply the council and the city with invoices of the chamber of commerce economic development activity for the first five months of the year. Maybe some people had been complaining or something.

The excitement didn't last long. Once again, the city is allowing this elusive and exclusive group to do whatever they want - including nothing - without any accountability. If you find economic development activity anywhere on page one let me know. Don't waste your time looking any further than that because the other months are just a photocopy of the first.

As a steward of the taxpayers' money, the mayor should be ashamed.

3 comments:

  1. I'm not against prayer, but are city council meetings an appropriate place for it? Separation of church and state?

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  2. Did anyone expect anything else. We are only here to foot the bills. Now that the Mayor has had a taste of the good life, he be takin' care of his homie. They be hangin! Vegas, Washington and Hot Springs.

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  3. "Shame"? Isn't that something that is used to keep the peons in line?

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