The Columbus Dispatch reported today that Newark Charter Review Commission didn't have time to review suggested charter changes in time for its meeting June 28.
Members had only three months to prepare.
But even if time were not a problem, shiftlessness would have won anyway: Only two of the five members - Richard Burgie and C. Herbert Koehler - bothered to attend. Commission members Cheri Hottinger, Robert Handelman and Kurt Harden did not, even though the commission's recommendations were due to council by tomorrow's meeting.
Among the most important matters that might have been discussed was the conversion of city council to non-partisan status, at the request of Council President Marc Guthrie.
From the Dispatch report, nothing was done by the two commissioners who showed up for the meeting except explain to the five individuals in the audience what could have been considered and why it wasn't.
As for the commission's appearance in council chambers Monday, "we'll tell them we haven't had time to do the job," Burgie said. "It will be up to them what to do."
Maybe start again with members who give a damn?
Sunday, July 1, 2007
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