Where is Mountlake Terrace council?

BRIGHTWATER

Is the Mountlake Terrace City Council out of touch with its citizens? While other politicians actively lobbied to keep Brightwater out of their towns for the last two years, our council and city manager chose not to be involved. The council and all citizens should listen to tapes of the June 3 council meeting at which the council and city manager were forced kicking and screaming to have even one Brightwater meeting or to pay for a mailer announcing the meeting.

Is the council out of touch? Listen to tapes of the two Brightwater meetings that they didn’t want to have. Then check your mailbox and find an informational flyer on water quality, a public works advertisement funded as a formality while debating like high drama the wisdom of informing their neighbors about the largest and most disuptive public works project here in our lifetimes.

Is the council out of touch? This council, that at the direction of legal counsel can’t act on Brightwater, is the same council that won’t act in response to their citizen’s concerns on parking and nuisance ordinances. In case the council didn’t understand the boos, sneers and catcalls at the joking mentions of those ordinances on June 26 during the Brightwater meeting at the high school, let me interpret. You folks need to get outside your political insulation more often. The locals are no more fond of having you cram bad ideas down their throats than they are of having King County Executive Ron Sims do it.

Mountlake Terrace