It Just Gives Us the Willies

As the City of Champions slides into fiscal emergency, Massillon City Council approaches it's job with a laser like focus as it grapples with the critical issues of the day.

Like where they plan on having the mayor sit during the meetings.

Again, we are serious.

There is a real live ordinance being debated in city council which if passed, would move the mayor and her administration from the front of the meeting room to the general public area.

For real.

This is how they actually spend their time.

It is believed this rubric for better seating is a punitive response being pushed by some on council as retaliation for "that woman" hiring Republican Al Hennon as Safety & Services Director.

One of our faithful readers shared with us Councilwoman Sarita Cunningham's rationale for wanting the Catazaro-from-Perry administration to move from the front of the room to the back of the room.

Apparently, having the mayor and the staff sitting next to her "gave her the willies."

What gives us the willies is a city council so lost for focus and so absent of seriousness that it spends its days worried about where the mayor sits at the meetings.

It does, however, look like Catazaro-from-Perry just hastened her move to the back of the room.

Or in the case, her new assigned seat will probably be in the parking lot.

She dared veto the well researched, well thought out rubric for better parks management authored by the Honorable, the Esteemed Councilman, Larry Slagle.

It appeared to be a fine job of cut and paste, as the version we received referred to the "City of Brunswick."

It was a plan to deal with a parks director who was already appointed.

Or maybe it was a rubric to return a former parks director to his job.

It did put city council firmly in charge of the parks.

Which based on recent history would be an unmitigated  disaster.

They would struggle endlessly with issues like where to put a swing set.

And the thought of them managing these complex issues just gives us the willies.