Mayor Greg Nickels invites Seattle residents to tell him and his department heads just how bad they @#$%-ed up last month in allowing the city to become paralyzed by a little bit of snow and ice.
Good thing it was just Mother Nature and not a terrorist attack. Who needs a dirty bomb when you’ve got snow falling in the freaking Northwest?
Anyway, according to the mayor’s peeps, “the input is being gathered as part of a citywide performance review of emergency snow operations” and “will offer residents an informal opportunity to talk one-on-one with the mayor and meet with staff from transportation, utilities and other departments.”
The closest one to our ‘hood is tomorrow, Wed., Jan. 14, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Garfield Community Center (2323 E. Cherry St.).
And if you really want to follow the big investigation the city is conducting, we suggest that you hop over and visit our friends at the West Seattle Blog where Tracy Record has been providing the kind of ultra-thorough coverage that she is so darn good at:
A question from Councilmember Jan Drago then drew an admission from Graff that emergency-management leaders were not getting the same input as councilmembers and the mayor, regarding public feedback that things were a mess. The council is going to figure out how to fix that for the future; as Councilmember Sally Clark noted, “One of the knocks we are all getting is that the city didn’t realize how bad it was, and why DIDN’T the city realize how bad it was and change the plan?”Councilmember Tom Rasmussen wanted to know more about whether emergency managers could have helped the apparent communications gap between SDOT and Metro, in which Metro’s Kevin Desmond had said he wasn’t getting his phone calls returned. Don’t Desmond and SDOT director Grace Crunican have each others’ phone numbers? he asked. “Well, I’m sure they have them NOW,” Graff replied, adding, “We accepted a lot of phone calls from Metro that I can say we channeled to a ‘live person’ at SDOT.”
Reads like a freaking soap opera, I tell you. It’s GREAT. Pathetic to be sure, but entertaining nonetheless. Did we really elect these people?
Related:
- City Council preview: Snowpocolypse ’08, CC BIA, Dearborn re-zone & more (1/11/09)
- Trash talk: Your mother may not live here, but you do pay taxes (1/5/09)
- ‘Twas the week before Christmas… in Seattle (1/5/09)
- Snowpocalypse ’08: Road conditions across the valley: UGLY (12/22/08)
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“Did we really elect these people?”
I love the spunk, but this would be the same no matter who we elected. Sad truth.
Something will “Come up” and he will have to leave early before feeling the wrath of the citizens.
good news, last night they swept Beacon Avenue and Swift as well! the bike lanes were no longer an inch deep in sand and car chain debris.
Donuts and kudo’s to all City of Seattle Street Sweepers!
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