Hello Olathe;
As part of our new website at The Olathe Messenger, we've added this blog site as a way for all of you to post your thoughts and opinions about life here in good ol' Olathe, Colorado. It's kinda like sitting down at the B&C around one of the tables of wisdom, only this is an on-line version where you are free to vent about issues and solve problems to your heart's content! It's interesting to read what others are thinking, so please feel to write about any topic you like as it relates to our community. You may choose an identity, or posts can be kept completely anonymous by choosing that option when you compose your post. Either way, we do want to hear from you, so blog away!
Your Friend and Fellow Olathean,
Kelley
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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I have read the papers and this blog and still have no clue why anyone would want to fire the finance person or why the mayor would quit over the issue. If the situation is that serious then the public has the right to know what's happening so that we can judge for ourselves who should stay and who should go. How about a public hearing or has that already been done?
ReplyDeletePublic hearing? Those cost money. OUR money. So do law suits (someone suggested Pam Woods "sue the pants off" of the town. Great idea, waste more of OUR money!) We need to remember that the money that runs the town comes from us, it isn't some funny-money provided by the funding fairies. We (and our appointed, elected, hired representatives) have an obligation to be good stewards of that money.
ReplyDelete-- If people attended the Town meetings where these things happened, they'd know a lot more about the situation. Maybe not the details of why Pam was fired (I don't recall that being openly discussed) but certainly why Mayor Perkins resigned.
-- I think a public hearing would be as sparsely attended as the regular town meetings, and would only serve to satisfy the curiosity of people who don't want to attend meetings but want to be "in the know."
If a public hearing is done, it will be posted in the Olathe Messenger as well as be discussed openly in a town meeting. Reading the local paper and personal attendance at town meetings are the best ways to keep informed about what's going on in Olathe - the good the bad and the confusing ...
So, can we count on seeing you at the next Town meeting?
What I would like to know is if Scott Harold, the Town Administrator, got any reprimand for firing the financial clerk? What he did was against the town polices. The Mayor quit and that is a good thing. But Mr. Harold got away with it? He makes over $70,000 a year and what has he really done for the town. He made many promises but I have not seen anything he has done for Olathe. Maybe the Olathe Messenger should list what he has done in the last year………..
ReplyDeleteWhy not go to a town meeting and ask that question yourself?
ReplyDeleteOur town leaders are available at every public meeting to listen to you and to respond to your questions. They know they are accountable to the people they represent.
So, if you want to know what Scott Harold has done this past year, go ask him - he goes to all the town meetings. Don't you?
Really, you think it's a good thing that the mayor quit mid-term?
ReplyDeleteI disagree - I think it shows a problem in Olathe when the town leaders can't work together for the good of the town. I think the resignation of the mayor is a symptom of a deeper issue in Olathe, that people can't get along and work for the good of all.
I've lived here for 4+ years - a relatively newcomer - but since the day I moved here - all I've heard and read about is fighting... amongst the townspeople...between the townspeople and over the townspeople........ Has anyone EVER gotten along?
ReplyDeleteAnd if you don't LIVE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS - there isn't any purpose attending any OLATHE meetings........you don't count and your vote doesn't count.....and they (the powers to be) make certain that you know it.