Massillon City Council was not able to conduct a whole lot of the people's business Tuesday night as a result of so many members of council being absent. Four members of council were unavailable for the Tuesday night session. Council member Hersher was taking a class. Council member Catazaro-Perry had a family medical emergency. Councilman Mang is personally ill. Catazaro-Perry and Hersher rarely miss a meeting.
And then we have Councilman David McCune.
McCune misses a lot of meetings.
According to city council's own minutes, McCune has missed 6 of the 19 scheduled council meetings so far this year.
McCune's absence rate is over 30%.
30 percent.
He hasn't been to a regularly scheduled session of city council since August 1.
We realize city council is a part time job.
But
Council normally has two regular meetings per month, plus the occasional special meeting.
The salary is $7,555 dollars per year.
If you have 28 meeting per year, that comes out to about $270 per regular meeting.
If your attendance record at your job was less than 70%, do you think you would still have a job?
David McCune thinks he should, as he is running for another term this November.
The first job of a city council member is to attend the meetings. If you can't attend the meetings, maybe you shouldn't run for the job.
McCune needs to do a better job of coming to the meetings.
