"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Sunday, 4 March 2012

The Bull By The Horns

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "It Does So Matter":

This might be resolved very quickly.

The Town should simply withhold quarterly funding as a means of bringing the existing agreement to a de facto end and in its place propose an agreement that contains and reflects all of the concerns that were enumerated in the Town Solicitor's Report and Recommendations of December 6, 2011.

Do you think the ACC will sue the Town? I think that is highly unlikely.
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The above has been my position since the budget of 2011.

I supported the Abel/Pirri motion as a compromise from my  position.  I knew, there was no stomach for my solution and  I've watching  prevarication in dealing with an obvious problem ever  since.

Last August, John Abel  prepared another motion.He was abused by board members and allowed himself to be convinced, there might be a more acceptable solution.

 He has been actively seeking the solution ever since.

His resolution was put forward after months of examining every possible alternative and seeking professional advice in wording and repeated re-wording.

There was never a possibility  the motion  would receive unanimous support.

But the  obviously pre-planned machinations that neutered its intent were not anticipated.

The rats are cornered.The fight is ferocious.

My opinion is on record. It is wiser and easier  to prevent a scandal from erupting  with the truth, than to  attempt to bring back a semblance of order  from  resulting mayhem.

Misinformation disseminated widely can never be fully recovered and corrected.  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well said, Dame Evelyn.

Call out if you require reinforcements.