Our View: No debate and no leadership

Last week, when the Green River City Council was supposed to discuss and deliberate on an increase to residents’ solid waste rates, anyone interested in listening to what individual Council representatives thought about the proposed increase was met with only one response.

Total silence.

According to Robert’s Rules of Order, when a piece of business to be introduced to a governing body fails to receive a motion to do so, it dies for a lack of motion and the governing body moves on to its next piece of business.

However, allowing this to happen communicates a number of messages to Green...

 

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