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Show ing beyond its limits. He insinuated that the Planning Plan-ning Commission used the "bamlKio telephone" to get wind of its being fired (what else'.' The Council didn't have the guts to inform them of its official action of Jan. 4 in trying to fire them.) It seems abundantly clear that Mr. Hayes is usingthe bam-Ixio bam-Ixio telephone to collect hearsay and rumor upon which he founds his official action as a Councilman. Coun-cilman. I deplore such conduct on his part. Mr. Burns also has concurred in this action involving the Planning Commission. Although he is the officially designated Council representative to the Planning Commission and Mr. Hayes is the alternate, Mr. Burns attended only two meetings meet-ings of that body from Sept. 1972 up to the start of this year and Mr. Hayes attended only one simultaneously with Mr. Burns. It would be well if they discharged dis-charged their duties so they might be better informed of what is going on, before they sit in ill-advised judgment on the Planning Commission. I regret I will be out of the country when this proposed ordinance will come before the Council at the Feb. 15 meeting, meet-ing, so I will not be able to vote against it. It should definitely def-initely not be adopted, and I hope the citizens will watch closely to see how their Coun-cilmen Coun-cilmen vote on this matter. Sincerely, Mary Lehmer. we get letters ' Defends Planners The Park Record Dear Editor: I refrained from answering Mr. Bob Hayes' silly little letter about the Planning Commission because the Council did nothing when I was present at the Jan. 18 Council meetingto implement its action of Jan. 4 (when 1 was absent) in ill-advisedly trying to fire the PlanningComniission. They learned they could not fire the Planning Commission but they are apparently determined deter-mined to emasculate them. I received in the mail a proposed pro-posed ordinance which they instructed the attorney to prepare pre-pare at the Feb. 1 Council meeting at which I was not present. The proposed ordinance or-dinance eliminates the alternate member (which we inserted the last time we amended the or--diance so that meetings wouldn't be postponed because of constant con-stant lack of quorum) and gives the Council the right to remove the entire Planning Commission at will, without cause of any kind. This thinking appears in keeping with the thinking of Councilman Hayes, who in his letter admitted his action in trying to fire the PlanningCom-mission PlanningCom-mission was based on what he had heard (rank hearsay) and what he had discussed with individual in-dividual members of the Commission, Com-mission, in formulating an opinion that the Commission wasn't doing its job, or wasgo- |
