AZCentral posted a story yesterday by Beth Duckett entitled “Exits by officials costly for Scottsdale.” The point of the story is that, “Scottsdale taxpayers have forked over $328,000 in the last four years to settle acrimonious departures by city mangers who differed with a majority of the City Council.” In my opinion, a) that’s a […]
Republic Question, Week 2
Arizona Republic opinion page editor Robert Leger posed four questions to the mayoral candidates. For ease of future reference, I’ll post the questions and the answers here. Here’s my segment of this the series from 12 July: Q: Is Scottsdale on the right track? Why or why not? A: No. The defeat of the General […]
Republic Question, Week 1
Arizona Republic opinion page editor Robert Leger posed four questions to the mayoral candidates. For ease of future reference, I’ll post the questions and the answers here. Here’s my segment of this the series from 5 July: Q: What is the most important function of the mayor? A: The mayor is primarily the chief representative […]
Culture, Taxes, and Golf
The Tuesday 5 June City Council meeting was another very long night, over 5 hours, not counting the executive session meeting prior to the regular meeting. You can stream the video from the city’s website. Items on which I commented are at the time indexes listed below. 0:36:30. “Text” amendments to Scottsdale’s General Plan. 2:16:00. […]