[Vision2020] John Dickinson replacement scenarios

[J Ford]

The only issue that looms heavily before this reasoning is the fact that the 
people in John's District will be left unrepresented for a great deal of 
time.  We have over 9 months left in this year and those people need to feel 
like their views and issues are represented on the Council and/or that they 
have a representative they can call and talk to.

I still think the people should be allowed to put in there the person THEY 
want and not have the Mayor just appoint someone.

J  :]





>From: jeanlivingston <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com>
>Reply-To: jeanlivingston <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com>
>To: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>, <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] John Dickinson replacement scenarios
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:43:02 -0800
>
>My sense of the situation with John Dickinson's seat on Council is that the 
>legal eagles that have looked at the issue find no indisputable basis or 
>provision for replacing John, unless he is declared dead.  That would 
>easily be done if there were a body found, but without a dead body or a 
>live one with the ability to resign as Jack Hll did, the situation is an 
>anomaly that does not seem to have a ready answer.  There really seems to 
>be no prescribed basis for a replacement in this situation.  One 
>possibility might be to file a declaratory judgemnt action in court and try 
>to prove that the City can't function unless the court orders a 
>replacement.  But it is not at all clear that the City cannot function 
>without John's presence.  Dan's point about the increased likelihoood of a 
>quorum problem without replacing the "vacant" spot might provde such a 
>basis, but when you add in the debatable nature of that argument, (i.e., 
>generally business can be conducted), plus the time and !
>  expense
>of litigating the issue in court, maybe the powers that be have decided 
>that it is better to continue to just "wait and see."
>
>Bruce Livingston
>
>
>-----Original message-----
>From: "Dan Carscallen" areaman at moscow.com
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:51:08 -0800
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] vision 2020 proposal
>
> > Tom says:
> > "If John Dickinson's term expires in December of this year, I assume
> > then that there is an election scheduled for this November?  If so,
> > wouldn't it be more prudent to simply let it remain vacant until
> > somebody is elected to fill it?"
> >
> > Yes, elections are again this November.  And that may be Mayor Chaney's
> > plan--just leave it open for the next 10 months.  I don't know if she
> > can be "forced" to fill the position, but if we have situations again
> > where two council members get sick, with an appointment we'd still have
> > a quorum.  Right now, only one council member can be absent at a time
> > and still allow the council to do the city's business.
> >
> > Not that it's that big a deal, but it might be to some people.
> >
> > DC
> >
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