Yes Virginia, Micah Cawley IS Yakima’s new Mayor! The first meeting of the year gave us a glimpse of what is to come. Cawley and Dave Ettl became joined at the lip just as Lover and Ensey have been and continue to be. The meeting became an exercise in futility when Ettl made a motion to reopen discussion on the placement of art on Front Street that had previously been approved several months ago by the council. Ettl’s motion was about to die for lack of a second when Cawley jumped in to save it for his ally. Micah stated he made the second for “purposes of discussion”. After some discussion and audience input Ettl then made a motion to void the previous council decision and not allow the sculpture to be placed on Front Street and to rescind the funding for it. Cawley again jumped in to save Ettl with a second as it appeared destined to die.
Now stay with me here. This is where things get muddled a bit. Naturally, the king of all muddlers, Bill Lover, had to toss in an amendment which actually resulted in reversing Ettl’s motion. Lover’s amendment was ready to die for a lack of a second when his lip mate, Rick Ensey, rushed to his rescue and made the seconding. That amendment stated that the funding be pulled and the sculpture remain per the original approval! This amendment passed 4-3! I think Atkison, Ensey and Coffey were confused and voted along with Lover for the amendment. Now the new motion actually became Lover’s amendment and this time Coffey & Ensey voted against the measure! The result is the council’s original decision stands and the sculpture and the funding to install it is to proceed on the Front Street location.
What have we learned here? We’ve learned that no matter how obtuse a motion by Ettl or Lover that each will get a second by their lip mates; Cawley and Ensey. We’ve also learned that KIT listeners have a lot of sway with this council! It was a survey Ettl said his radio station did on the art placement that prompted him to ask to reopen the discussion. So now it appears that the council will have to check with KIT to rexamine previous council decisions? How about reopening a discussion on the council’s 4-2 vote to pay Ensey’s legal fees? Lover seems intently interested in every penny of the $15,000 estimate being accounted for in the work of art installation. I wonder why he doesn’t require the same scrutiny for the $16,000 plus that the city paid with no questions asked and no scrutiny whatsoever for Ensey’s attorney fees.
Welcome aboard Mayor Micah! And try to remember that the business of the city includes ALL residents, not just KIT listeners.
P.S. If you have the time go to the city’s website and view the video of this meeting. Select the Government tab, then select Council agendas, then select council meeting videos then Jan 6 video. (It was actually Jan 5).
The council meeting must have been a replay of a Bob And Ray radio show where Wally Ballou aka Dave Ettel was dominating the discussion. Well, at least we are going to have some entertainment down the road thanks to our city council!
..ally Ballou here at the Yakima City Council meeting where the president of the Yakima Paper Clip factory has been selected as the new mayor. Mr Mayor, doesn’t it concern you that your workers earn 20 cents an hour?
“oh, I don’t pry in the personal affairs of my employees”
Oh dear lord…the 6th grade student council meetings at school have more dignity than this.
I was there. It did seem pretty confusing when the two amendments to the original motion (whatever that was) locked horns and the good council was wondering how to vote. The audience was confused, the council was confused and eventually it took Dick Zais to straighten it all out and tell them they had arrived (after 40 minutes of discussion) at the same point they were in July, concerning the art piece. Bob Sherwood and Joe Mann both showed some real practical thinking and the VP of the Arts Gifting bunch stammered on for 10 minutes and said nothing, accusing Paschen (sp) of fixing the votes against the placement at the depot. I am still concerned about two radio jocks being on our city council, but I guess I will have to live with it. It sure is apparent that KIT apparatchiks now have a voice on the council. Ettl did his best to qualify, quantify and intellectualize his audience’s sentiments, and was visibly disappointed in his failure to do so, at one point banging on Edler for his stand on espresso-stand dress, which drew an unusual and angered response from Edler. It was a very entertaining evening.
Cawley made several respectful attempts to get the audience involved, but there was considerable reluctance. Whoop
How entertaining it is watching Ron’s sour grapes get y’all’s panties in a bunch.
Election 2010 is coming…get used to it.
Neal
The only sour grapes on this blog seem to come out of you when you drop your panties.
WOW…did I get slammed…Why didn’t ya just say..”So are you, but what am I?”
I may not have slept tonight…
I have noticed the empty comments Neal contributes to the discussion here. When asked what percentage of Hawaiians work less then 20 hours a week, he hasn’t come up with any but he has to tell us how bad the Hawaii health plan is because it is somehow ruinous to business, or his Maui condo owners or his Florida Sunshine Tree, or…. C’mon Neal do better, a conservative mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Streeter, no figures are available telling that point. My point was…Drew was wrong when he said ALL workers are covered…they are not.
Personally, at my house 2 out of 2 didn’t get health insurance while working. The couple that rented my ohana (look that one up) also didn’t. And Kim next door didn’t. My experience over there (which is FAR greater than yours or Drew’s) indicated a significant percentage didn’t get “free” health care.
As for wasting a mind?? I suppose that is ONE area you are indeed an expert at, Streeter.
Neal, Hawaii is in the median as far as percentage of part time workers.
Your claim that mandated insurance creates a majority of jobs that are less than 20 hours a week isn’t proven. I’ve worked over there being covered by my companies insurer. The insurance adjuster I took my driving abstract to drive a company vehicle in Hilo is a 9-5 mon-fri employee. The airport screeners were full time, the folks at Costco in Kona are more than 20 hours a week, the hotel folks at Waikoloa Marriot are more than 20 hours a week,as were the wait staff at Roy’s.
Neal, tell us why you think it’s important to support slavery?
Part of Hawaiian culture, ʻohana means family in an extended sense of the term including blood-related, adoptive or intentional. It emphasizes that family are bound together and members must cooperate and remember one another. The term is cognate with (and its usage is similar to) the New Zealand Māori term whānau.
In actual Hawaiian culture the term ʻohana is strictly used for blood relations. Non-familial groupings always instead use the word “hui”.
In Hawaiian, the word is ʻohana with the leading inverted apostrophe (ʻ) indicating a glottal stop or ‘okina.
The root word ʻohā refers to the root or corm of the kalo, or taro plant (the staple “staff of life” in Hawaii), which Kanaka Maoli consider to be their cosmological ancestor.
In contemporary Hawaiian life, an “ʻohana unit” is a part of a house or a separate structure on the same lot that may contain a relative but which may not be rented to the general public
Streeter, if you could only read..
Nowhere have I said a “majority” of people in Hawaii work less than the mandated 20 hours. I have simply refuted your master’s idea that EVERY WORKER has mandated health insurance. Hopefully, you, as his designated toady, will catch on someday.
And Whoopee…if you think ohanas aren’t rented….you are even less enlightened than Streeter.
If Washington state keeps it up, you libs might get enough felons signed up to vote to even vote out Doc…
NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Why do you support slavery, neal?
How many years were you in 6th grade, Streeter?
1, how many years have you supported slavery?
One of these days I will make a foray into the enemy camp, just to see how it feels. I will use supposition, rhetoric, undeclared-but alluded to)-however-still unfounded, declarations that the enemy is at the gates and has to be repelled. I will resort to dramatic name calling and accusations that ring hollow, and are based purely on not what the enemy says, but what I think they said-or what my brand of dogma suggests they should say. Of course I will allow my prejudices do a great deal of the character assassination.
Although I find the engagements sometimes entertaining, at length, they become character foibles, and move eccentrically and tangent-like away from the issues. Never-the-less they provide insight into the wobbly mind of humanity.
In the end, I will be certain to wander and vacillate so that whatever was important will be set aside while I disparage another’s screeds and dopamine levels.
This is not to say I have not already (how’s that for double negs?) dealt this sort of hand, for I know I have. Just let me admit my sins. Finally, I cite the four exchanges above as truly worthless. Candor is the pith.
This sure sounds like Wally Ballou himself. Lots of hot air about nothing.
What mgunder said…