Comments on: How Should Councils Deal With Vacant Seats? http://www.lazylightning.org/how-should-councils-deal-with-vacant-seats Lazy Lightning: The South Metro News Source Sat, 18 May 2013 02:16:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tom Bullington http://www.lazylightning.org/how-should-councils-deal-with-vacant-seats#comment-399890 Tom Bullington Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:23:24 +0000 http://www.lazylightning.org/?p=5942#comment-399890 Thanks Bill for your viewpoint on this, and Joey for your comments as well. My main reason for bringing this topic to the local papers and writing the city council about it is to help Hastings avoid the appearance that this appointment was inappropriate. While it may have been legal, I believe appointing someone without any sort of public input for two years, looks bad. There was really no good reason not to take applications from the public. The question remains “why not?” Countless other cities around the country and in our area (Lakeville, S. St. Paul, etc.) are taking applications, but Hastings refused.

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]]> By: Joey http://www.lazylightning.org/how-should-councils-deal-with-vacant-seats#comment-384634 Joey Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:41:21 +0000 http://www.lazylightning.org/?p=5942#comment-384634 I think the mayor’s intentions are good, but perception matters far more than intentions. Put the public perception of cronyism to rest and allow for open submissions. At least then the public knows who the alternatives to the presumed favorite candidate are and can decide for themselves if the wrong person was given the job.

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