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<br />obey, nice. So I simply am a little bit concerned as to how all of this works. You can <br />call it anything you want to call it but it is what it is, what it is. This Council has not <br />necessarily reached an agreement on many substantive issues. I think it would be <br />hard for any of his collages to say that I have ever personally offended any of them, <br />made any inappropriate comments towards them. However, I do find it very <br />necessary to speak my opinion and this pledge seems to be window dressing for all <br />that is going on behind the scenes. It still strikes me completely as odd that police <br />officers are taken off the street to hand deliver a letter to each of us, that is to the <br />best of his knowledge, the first time in fifty years, sixty years, that this has ever been <br />done. So one of our colleagues has actually put all this information up on the web <br />site. So to me we can vote on the resolution but at the end of the day it is what it is.” <br /> <br />Mr. Sharpe stated that he wished we had the opportunity to discuss this prior to <br />asking us on the dais to vote on it. He said he had a little problem with the word <br />coaching and he did believe in a harmonious relationship between Councilmembers <br />and he hoped that in some kind of a way that can be addressed but he did not think it <br />would be addressed by signing this pledge. <br /> <br />Mr. Kraft said he saw the word coaching and is not sure what it means and asked if <br />the pledge would be acceptable if the word coaching would be removed? <br /> <br />Mr. Sharpe said he really felt that the Council should work harmoniously together. <br />He has a very urgent feeling that something likes this should transpire but he doesn’t <br />think it is going to transpire by signing this pledge and did not think it was necessary. <br />He felt like it was something within each one of the Council that we are going to <br />agree, not by signing something that we are going to be cooperative as far as our <br />give and take and as far as our discussion, as far as I treat you and you treat me. <br />That is going to happen, he believes, but it is not going to happen as the result of him <br />signing the pledge. <br /> <br />Mayor Welsch noted that this pledge went out ten days ago and Council can delay <br />this for consideration later. It was agreed to by six members of the Council who were <br />at the retreat. Mr. Crow was not at the retreat. This was something that was agreed <br />upon by six members of the Council with the facilitator at the retreat. It is something <br />they wanted to do to put this Council on record to say how we were going to be <br />treated. It was strongly pushed because of the way the previous Council had <br />worked. Mayor Welsch hoped that this Council would go on record. It does not <br />concern the way Robert’s Rules are enforced on this Council and does not include <br />any action by the City Manager, this includes the way the seven people sitting at this <br />dais treat each other in private and public meetings. <br /> <br />Mr. Glickert confirmed what Mayor Welsch said; that there were six members at the <br />retreat who took a look at a pledge that the facilitator supplied and did feel this was <br />important, as the six were in accord with moving forward. Mr. Glickert said as he <br />listened tonight to his colleagues and the citizens in regard to consensus, we are in <br />the public here and he moved to postpone the vote on Council’s pledge until Council <br />could study it again in order to get consensus from all of the Councilmembers and <br />was seconded by Mr. Price. Voice vote carried unanimously to postpone until after <br />Council had additional discussion. <br /> <br /> <br /> 9 <br /> <br />