I understand Council Member Tod Warner's frustration that people don't show up for meetings until the problem is in their own backyard. I think we all should take part in our local government more than we do (especially myself)...
But, on the other hand, why do residents vote to elect a City Council and other local, city, and US Government representatives? We do that for them to represent us so we don't all have to show up...otherwise, all 18,000 or so residents would need to jam up City Hall. The council members were voted in to work in our best interests. I realize too that it's impossible for anybody to catch everything.
We know everyone's human and Mr. Warner admitted he dropped the ball. Kudos to him for the admission and saying he would accept the blame for it. But I think people aren't just looking for someone to blame. They're wanting a solution to the problem, as well as assurances that a situation like this won't happen again in the future.
To say he takes responsibility for the slip up, and then to turn around immediately and blame the 200 people present is a (sorry mom!) bass-ackwards way of doing it. If you accept responsibility, you accept responsibility. If you want to blame another person or a group for something, then do it, but it doesn't work to accept fault and then pass it on. That's the way I think, anyway. Call me crazy.
"Crazy!!!"
Oh hush.
Oh hush.
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