Tough Love for Those Entrusted to Protect & to Serve

During the course of this Municipal Election, Code Enforcement of City Ordinances has repeatedly come to the forefront. As might be expected, the procedural process for adopting laws and establishing enforcement guidelines have rested solely on the shoulders of City Staff with final approval being voted on by 5 sitting council members.

Policy and Procedures & Rules and Regulations are to be developed and supervised by the City Manager and Department Heads. Employees are expected to be trained and educated on elements contained in each ordinance. Employees are then to conduct themselves accordingly; keeping to prescribed job performance expectations.

LET US NOW DIRECT OUR ATTENTION TO THE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS and GOVERNMENT.

Particular attention to Property Rights and Code Enforcement is warranted, due to the recently filed Class-Action Law Suit naming the Mayor and City of St. George as defendants. Transparency on this issue is very important as it may very well cost the taxpayers a large amount of money to litigate this issue.

HOW DID WE GET IN THIS POSITION AND HOW COULD WE HAVE AVOIDED/PREVENTED IT FROM HAPPENING?

May I humbly suggest that we find ourselves in this predicament because those that have been entrusted to lead have succumbed to worldly temptations of power and have stopped LISTENING. I can vividly recall in my boyhood when I ceased to listen and adhere to the course I was expected to follow, my dear mother would say to me, “You are getting too big for your britches.”

Well, without describing in detail the failures that have led to the city being sued… the kindest way to put it, is to say, the predicament our City now finds itself can best be presented in the simplest and kindest terms by stating… The Mayor and City Manager appear to have gotten “too big for their britches.” As made evident by current events.

They no longer are LISTENING and more importantly RESPONDING to the folks who put them in office; they know better.

The Mayor and City Manager have grown too big to spank. There is an alternative.   It’s called an ELECTION!

Issues highlighted during this election cycle have been very disconcerting and troubling to say the least.

What has become Important in this election is that we, the people, can correct wayward, inappropriate behavior by putting individuals in office that WILL Listen, Hear, and Act in a Responsible way…And YES, be RESPECTFUL to the public when doing it.

The Mayor and City Manager should follow a mother’s admonishment.

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!

I will Listen, I will hear, I will act in a responsible way, and I will RESPECT you. I am ED BACA.

VOTE NOVEMER 5^TH.  VOTE ED BACA, Thank you.