My letter pertains to the “Gough faces council revolt” news story by Oscar Halpert in the Friday Herald. While it is true “the council doesn’t have the authority to force Gough’s resignation,” it does have the authority to significantly reduce or eliminate the budget line items for salary and benefits for the mayoral position. This could be the ultimate impetus for Gough to quit.
Furthermore, it would be a way of recovering taxpayer dollars thus far expended because of Gough’s dysfunctional behaviors. I estimate that Gough thus far has cost us about $140,000.
As for sending Gough to anger management training, I don’t believe he could be forced to go and in reality this would be additional waste of taxpayer dollars. I suspect Gough is a narcissist and a few anger management sessions won’t fix him.
Ron Siddell
Lynnwood
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