Our City Manager

Shouldn't we know what the Council really thinks?

Phil Vince, our City Manager for the past few years, resigned with no notice following a performance review session with the City Council. There are protocols and even laws that protect City personnel, including the City Manager, from public disclosure about what was said and what went on during that review session.

But shouldn't we the people, whom the Council represents and who pay the City's bills, including the salary of the City Manager, know what the our elected leaders think did not go well during the tenure of Phil Vince?

Every year at the State of the City breakfast, frequently at City Council meetings, and always when incumbents come back again for our votes, we the people are treated to gilded lily versions of the City's reality. 

Why can't we be treated to more than "spin," to something closer to the truth? To a self-examination of where these leaders have led us, or not led us?

Let's hear them say where the City should have performed better, where the City "blew it," where money was wasted, where projects that were approved shouldn't have been, and where they weren't but should have. And the reasons why, in every case.