[Vision2020] Daily News Letters: Ament shows his arrogance

joekc at adelphia.net joekc at adelphia.net
Sun Jan 8 10:48:35 PST 2006 

AD,

I have no disagreement with this whatsoever.

Joe

---- Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote: 
> Joe,
> 
> At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I think we again are failing 
> to recognize a fundamental issue in the downtown parking issue/problem:  The 
> City of Moscow Comprehensive Plan.
> 
> Whatever is done through the zoning code must be in conformance with the 
> comprehensive plan by law (Attention JoAnn Mack, Jon Kimberling).  John 
> Dickinson seemed to be the only member of the past council who realized and 
> who sincerely and eloquently spoke to the issue of the necessity of 
> conforming to the comprehensive plan although Nancy Chaney did also bring up 
> the issue.
> 
> With the exception of the CCC, most people recognize there is a parking 
> problem for the downtown area.  Not everyone can walk very far and not 
> everyone wants to.  That is reality.  Various merchants have expressed their 
> observations on this matter quite clearly.
> 
> If the previous council, which included one non-elected person who did not 
> choose to resign once an election was held, had read and honestly debated 
> the contents of the comprehensive plan for the downtown area in conjunction 
> with the parking issue, a very different result or no result would have been 
> the likely outcome.
> 
> Like it or not, Aaron Ament and others are quite familiar with this flawed 
> process and are trying to correct it. Those that find it strange that an 
> incoming council would try to change what the previous council did do not 
> understand elective democracy.  The past city council was not endowed with 
> infinite wisdom;  they made a number of decisions that need to be revisited; 
> their management of the city style and involvement also needs to be 
> revisited.  The downtown parking problem was a hot, relevant issue in the 
> last election.  Ament clearly expressed his opinion and was elected 
> (...elected, elected, elected, ...) [Attention Jon Kimberling].
> 
> It would, in fact, be extremely hypocritical for Ament not to call for a 
> review of the parking problem now that he is seated on the council.  Those 
> on the council who are belly-aching about Ament's actions are the real 
> threat to the democratic process.
> 
> [As a side-note and guess based on information which has not appeared on 
> this forum or in the Daily News [an oxymoron], given the huge flaws in the 
> just past city election, it is likely that Kit Craine and Dan Carscallen 
> would be the legitimate holders of council seats, not the two belly-achers.]
> 
> I hope now that the new council will review and act on the parking issue 
> while conforming to the comprehensive plan.  However, I have a real concern 
> that one newly elected member may not even have a clue about the correct 
> procedure and may not even understand it after competent, repeated tutelage.
> 
> As for the Daily News, a huge, effective dose of Epsom Salts at the 
> management level is called for.  I suspect that if some personnel changes 
> are not made, the Daily News will start to see an erosion of advertising 
> revenue.
> 
> 
> Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
> deco at moscow.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <joekc at adelphia.net>
> To: "'Moscow Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Daily News Letters: Ament shows his arrogance
> 
> 
> >I wonder why it is that the Daily News sent wasted so much ink on the first 
> >meeting of the new council and so little ink on the last meeting of the old 
> >council. The problem, as I see it, is that the old council tried to shove 
> >the issuance of conditional use permits in the downtown business district 
> >relating to educational institutions down our throats before the new 
> >council took office. This hardly sounds like accepting "the will of the 
> >people."
> >
> > If NSA had handled the issue up front in the first place, instead of 
> > wheeling and dealing behind closed doors, then they wouldn't have half the 
> > problems they are having now. I know it is popular to spin this all as 
> > Anti-Christian sentiment but since I am a church-going Christian that 
> > attack does not apply to me. I can give you a list of several people who 
> > fall in this category, as well.
> >
> > One thing I have a problem with is granting a right to a tax-exempt 
> > college that has been in town for about 10 years that cannot be granted to 
> > an institution that has been in town for over 100 years. Try explaining 
> > that before extending more ad hominem attacks on NSA's critics.
> >
> > ---- "AreaMan (DanC)" <areaman at moscow.com> wrote:
> >> Ament shows his arrogance
> >>
> >> I attended the Moscow City Council meeting Tuesday and was completely
> >> astounded when, shortly after the new City Council members were sworn
> >> in, new Councilman Aaron Ament made a motion to impose a moratorium on
> >> the issuance of conditional use permits in the downtown business
> >> district relating to educational institutions.
> >> After a lengthy debate, the motion did pass. But then Ament tried to
> >> fabricate a reason for vacating the 15-day notification for public
> >> testimony. He could not as there was no imminent peril as defined by
> >> Idaho statute.
> >>
> >> Moscow's new mayor, Nancy Chaney, also voted for the motion knowing no
> >> imminent peril existed. After more debate and two more votes on vacating
> >> the 15-day notification and failing, the original motion was set aside.
> >>
> >> I too ran for City Council in the past election. I have spoken with
> >> Ament on many occasions and found his views to be totally agenda- and
> >> special interest group-driven. He has now proven he will try to assert
> >> his narrow viewpoint on the city of Moscow.
> >>
> >> On Tuesday he appeared arrogant, unprofessional and showed absolutely no
> >> respect for the city staff or willingness to work with them in a
> >> constructive manner.
> >>
> >> The residents who voted for Ament should plead temporary insanity and be
> >> ashamed for putting someone like him and the other three MCA clones in
> >> office. We have two long years ahead to pay the price for this election.
> >> I fear that Moscow will go back many steps instead of ahead and may not
> >> recover from this administration for many years to come.
> >>
> >> Don Meyer, Moscow
> >> ____________________________________
> >>
> >> Thank you Commander,
> >>
> >> DC
> >>
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