Letter: Preserve Snohomish with no vote on Prop 2

Published 1:30 am Friday, October 21, 2016

The signs popping up all over Snohomish from supporters of yes on Prop 2 are confusing to down right deceptive. How do we preserve Snohomish by changing the way we have governed ourselves for the past 45 years? I would not look at the man in the front of this campaign to change the form of government for our town, I would look at the people behind it, those are the people who will want to be our strong mayor. I know some of these people and they don’t have the experience or professional standards to run our city. We need a person who is accountable and trained to be a city manager, not someone who has the ego and would like to be a power broker for our city.

If we need a new city manager, the city can look throughout the country for a qualified and interested candidate and replace him/her right away if needed. If we get an elected mayor who isn’t doing the job we will have to wait until the next election cycle to replace him/her, and the pool for candidates is quite small for our small city. We need to keep the form of government we have now, which has worked for the last 45 years and truly preserve Snohomish. Don’t be fooled by deceptive political rhetoric, vote no on Prop 2.

Bill and Jeanne Steffener

Snohomish