"Something is rotten in the state of ..."

For Commerce folks please read what is going on at City Hall...

SMH this morning in a little bewilderment as it was posted back in July for the City of Commerce to hire a Tourism/Event Coordinator. Yes, you probably don't know this because even though the City generally post job opening in the paper it never did.  Wonder why they are trying to sneak this in?  Don't you want the best qualified people to apply for the position? But if you don't let the general public know, it makes me think City Hall is trying to do something questionable. Or at least they already had a person pegged for the position and did not really want to take applicants.

You know if we were 4B, the EDC Director could possibly handle the responsibility as well. The EDC Director is making $65K per year, would this be too great of a work load to do both? But let's create another position and waste more tax revenues. 

But ask some questions:

If you are going to do that why not become a Main Street Community?

Does this mean you are going to cut funding to the @Chamber?

The City made the decision to not fully fund the library and couldn't find funds to re-open pool but let's create another position that is 1) basically a function of the Chamber and 2) could be handled if we were 4B. Something is not right in Denmark!

And let's see, the Chili Fest B-B-Q Cook Off (remember that) you stopped because it didn't generate enough money and now you want to create a Tourism/Event Coordinator? Wonder what the cost benefit analysis of this position is?

Do you see what is happening people, they are trying to put a band aid on a situation that needs surgery.  They will say we don't need to go 4B because we are creating this position to help bring events into town.

Ask yourself why no one on council has made any public statement as to whether they support going 4B or not. I think every candidate who has ever been on council in the past 10+ years has talked about making quality of life improvements in Commerce and yet no real progress ever gets made.  Why? The excuse is the City doesn't have the money. And yet you have the money to create this position.   You have the opportunity to empower the EDC Board to be able to spend money on quality of life improvements AND still work to attract industry yet you keep fighting it all the way.

I think the majority of people in Commerce want to go 4B. 

State laws says 10% of registered voters can file a petition to abolish the 4A and create a 4B. In Commerce, there are just under 3300 registered voters. So we need 330 people to sign a petition to get this moving.  The City could make this easy and put an item on the agenda at their meeting in August and vote to let the citizens of Commerce decide to stay 4A or go 4B.  And once again I ask, why do you not give the CITIZENS the option to choose.