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<br />meaning two path ways. So a commission may go off and work with staff and then <br />come back to Council and say, we spent six months doing this; you have to <br />approve it, even though Council did not like it. Ms. Carr stated to Mayor Welsch <br />that her reaction was in large measure to Mayor’s behavior toward her. She <br />wanted to approve these ordinances and honor the work that has been done. Ms. <br />Carr said she could not do that the way it was stated and was trying to amend this <br />in such a way that the work of these commissions will come before the Council <br />and not be fait accompli when they finally come to the Council. Every commission <br />according to the City Attorney’s statement at the presentation on Roberts Rules <br />serves under the authority of the Council and at the pleasure of the Council. Ms. <br />Carr stated Council did not have to rubber stamp the decisions made by the <br />commissions, but the Council should not create commissions that can get the <br />City into difficult situations again. <br /> <br />The Mayor asked to clarify Ms. Carr’s statement saying Ms. Carr had made that <br />comment a number of times. She stated she had found out about the Human <br />Relations stuff in early June, two weeks after Ms. Carr attended a Human <br />Relations meeting. Mayor Welsch noted Mr. Carr has mentioned it in public and <br />now again and it was not true. Mayor Welsch said for the record, “It is not true. <br />Every commission serves as an advisory role to this Council. Council does not <br />have to approve anything the boards or commissions do, but to say they have to <br />ask permission to look into every issue is wrong. <br /> <br />Mr. Crow stated that Ms. Carr and Mr. Sharpe were amending this on the front <br />end and was not something Council should be chided at, by the Mayor. He stated <br />they are making an amendment tonight which would not be voted on until the next <br />meeting. Mr. Crow stated this was the second time tonight the Council has been <br />chided by the Mayor because Council has not operated in her time frame. Mr. <br />Crow said he got his package on Friday night, arrived in the country on Saturday <br />and reviewed it on Sunday and got through it today. He said he made comments <br />about two liquor licenses that had errors in them and he said it would be nice for <br />the Mayor to say you caught a couple of errors that save the City a problem, <br />instead of chiding him for not getting it to her in a timely fashion. Mr. Crow noted <br />the concerns expressed by Ms. Carr actually lay at the feet of the Mayor and the <br />concerns that most of the Councilmembers have expressed have to do with the <br />way they have been treated and the way the commissions have operated. Mr. <br />Crow said there was no doubt there has been a different set of communication <br />through to some Councilmembers and for anyone to sit here and say it was the <br />Human Relations Commission doing something – it was not the Human Relations <br />Commission doing something - it was one member going off, who happened to be <br />one of Mayor’s largest contributors who the Mayor has gone to bat for to defend <br />and it was simply one member. <br /> <br />Mr. Kraft said he was sympathetic to the issues and suggested a simpler way to <br />meet Ms. Carr’s concerns of the idea it is advisory versus it is expect to provide <br />timely advice. He thought advisory was more explicit and could read, “The <br />commission is advisory to the Council”. Mr. Kraft said it just clarifies it better. He <br />noted the simplest way to do it would be to subtract rather than add, by stating, <br />“the city officers and staff of City departments may consult and advise with the <br />20 <br /> <br /> <br />