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Quirky policies will sadly live on

| September 3, 2015 7:00 AM

Seems that Sandpoint Mayor Carrie Logan has found a way to perpetuate her policies and agenda, saddling the new mayor and council even after leaving office in January with a city administrator. When this person is hired, he or she will be well trained by Logan in her quirky policies and mindset on how things should be done.

Just because Logan says this is for the best and offers a few vague generalities as to why Sandpoint needs an administrator, doesn’t make it so. Several things puzzle me though. Does Sandpoint operate under a city charter? If so, doesn’t it take a vote of the people to make a change in it as it relates to the form of government? Such as, well, let’s say, going from a strong to a weak mayoral system as they did in Spokane?

I also have questions about the funding of this position. Fires, a savings in some fine the city has been paying for not fully funding the fireman’s retirement plan? The administrator’s salary will come also in part from the general fund. Then there is the oddest source of the other half of the $102,000 this position will pay. It will be taken from the water and sewer rate fees most of us pay for these city services. How can this be? Wouldn’t this be akin to Avista charging for their electricity, but then using a chunk of it to build an airport?

Seems like an illegal misappropriation of funds to me … silly me. So, to be ever so helpful, I wonder if the Idaho State Attorney General will be just as silly when he hears about it?

LAWRENCE FURY

Sandpoint