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Show iflg". v ' r i -- A':'A ! f g -r-i i, f ! i L i L j j ' . ,V - , i ' a"J : li If i j " -J .i :"'m Cedar Hills Council Discusses Aesthetics, Expertise by Harlow Clark City council members not only attend council meetings and listen to the concerns of residents, they also have specific spe-cific responsibilities and report on them at the end of council meetings. One of Council Member Marisa Wright's responsibilities responsibili-ties is city beautification, and she's passionate about it. Last February, thinking about spring beautification projects, she said the hillside in front of the Public Works building looked neglected. "I have this vision of the city being a daffodil city-' city-' -because deer won't eat daffodils," daffo-dils," she said, adding that daf fodils should be planted in the Fall, not the Spring. Her vision for the city also includes volunteers, particularly particu-larly on the beautification committee, com-mittee, "five capable people with good aesthetic eyes." At the October 5 council meeting, she talked about resistance re-sistance from other city officials. offi-cials. "I didn't expect as much push back," she said, and got a laugh when she said of Council Coun-cil Member Jim Perry, "I'm friends with him on Facebook still." "You have people in this city willing to put in the time, for free," she said. "If not, it's just going to cost the city money." "I'm skeptical about elected elect-ed and appointed officials," Perry said, and apologized if he had been condescending ("Rude," Wright said) in teasing teas-ing her earlier when discussing concepts for the community center at the golf course. Perry added that he didn't want to hand off the task of creating cre-ating landscape and beautification-designs to "someone who's not accountable." Council Member Scott Jackman agreed. "We want to be careful when we don't know someone's expertise." Perry said he was not an expert in beautification and didn't feel qualified to judge designs. Both he and Jackman suggested having an expert review re-view the committee's designs. "I'm totally okay with that," Wright said. However, resident Brent Ubell pointed out that expert opinions can be in the eye of the beholder and one expert may think another expert's designs de-signs aren't very good at all, and a third expert will disagree with both. "We're not asking for a design," Perry said, just a review re-view of designs. "I don't want to approve designs myself," he added. Contact Harlow Clark at har-lowclarkcomcast.net |