Regarding the Wednesday letter, “Citizen can’t get word in edgewise”:
I hope Lynnwood residents will listen to the recording of our Monday meeting on the city website or watch the televised repeat. It will shed an entirely different light on what happened.
The letter writer said that the mayor interrupted her after three words. Actually, Ms. Brinks was quoting from an article in the paper regarding the “form of government” issue placed on the November ballot last month by a majority of the council. The mayor politely asked her to suspend her comments so the City Attorney could explain the state law that limits the discussion of the pros and cons of a ballot issue by any citizen or the council members at a council meeting unless it is at a published public hearing set up to discuss that issue.
Ms. Brinks has in the past used disparaging names for elected officials she doesn’t like and did again last Monday even after she was asked not to by the council president because it is a violation of council rules.
I previously asked the council to hold public hearings and meetings in the community to see if there is support for spending money on such an election before we spent thousands of tax payers’ dollars on the ballot issue. Hopefully, we will still have such meetings to inform the voters of the positive and negative points of the mayor/ council and council/manager forms of government. That would provide a legal forum for such a discussion and avoid the false accusations that have been leveled by Ms. Brinks.
Ted Hikel
Council Member
City of Lynnwood
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