"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

Thursday 24 July 2014

TWO TEAMS DO NOT MAKE A WHOLE

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "STUFF. HaPPENS":

Well, it sounds like the no-show excuses are already in from the three non-team players.

Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 24 July 2014 11:34

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And that sounds like the predictable response from  one or all of the team players. 

It sums up the problem with the current Council. 

It's not a lack if commitment.

Nor an unwillingness to put sin the time needed  for town business. 

It' s not a lack of conscience or even terrible enmity between Councillors. 

There is the occasional jab or like last week  the gang-up on Councillor Gaertner who dared to put a motion on the table for discussion. 

There is no tension in  Council Chamber on meeting nights.

No...the problem is not mutual hostility .......or serious disrespect.

The problem is not understanding what it takes to succeed. 

A divided Council. never knows the satisfaction of  overcoming all prejudices and achieving  worthwhile  purpose  in the community.

I repeat. It's not easy . It calls for  learned skills  and a particular level of integrity.  

If members do not  comprehend  and accept the complexity...it's impossible.

Each Councillor  has a responsibility to put forward a particular perspective. And to fight for it. to prevail.

Out of that, because the community's interest come first, solutions must be found to everyone's near satisfaction. 

It may not always happen but the effort must be made.And when it does ,satisfaction is immense. 

Forming  a  voting block  or "team" to ensure one way or another prevails is blundering ,inefficient and frustrates everyone. 

It's the modern simplicity method. 

Everybody knows how things should be done without ever having done it. 

Nobody has to learn. 

Google has all  the answers .

Consultants do all the thinking

Excluding  Council members not perceived as part of  "the team"  does not  fool all of the people any of the time. 

Voters  most certainly expect that once elected , a council will  work together.

A Council is not a team or Heaven forbid, two teams. 

A team scores points ...wins or loses.... the Club increases status or  loses place. In the end it's only a game. 

A Council is not in competition.  The objective must be to find ways to do things better ,at least cost, 
to maintain and if need be improve services and  to. make progress.

it doesn't happen with "teams " pulling against each other. 

A Council divided is inefficient .

Bureaucracy reigns supreme.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am not thinking in terms of teams but of numbers and the silliness of the exercise. If one more councillor were unable to attend for whatever reason, there would be no quorum ? No ? What then ? Would the skies fall ?

Anonymous said...

We could use the former clerk here. He usually managed to control events. The new one is not likely going to have anyone to whom he can turn for advice.
I wish him luck because experience is not available for this event.