Well, I tried last night but to no avail. I respectfully asked the Mayor for his resignation earlier than October 17th. Unfortunately, because of his decision to resign on that late date, we will not be able to have our next election for Mayor until November, 2009. When I pressed him for his reasons for not resigning sooner, he stuck with his original answer of having things to finish. I asked him what things, but I got no answer. Till the very end, as a lame duck, he will be pulling strings in Jackson.
It looks like his back is to the wall about the Building Department. There is no other avenue available but to keep it open. DCA will not handle it, we will NEVER outsource to a third party, and there are laws governing having a Building Department and a certain number of staff. I cannot understand why he just wouldn't concede the issue, as there is no place for him to go.
We also cancelled the CCTV contract. We had many questions about that issue, including why we need to include the turf fields. We do need surveillance by the jail, and the Mayor will be sending out RFPs very soon so that we are in compliance with the state.
So far, the Council has been anything but dull. We are trying to have open discussions, and I think we are succeeding.
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I have a plan to get rid of him but I don't think I'd survive in jail.
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