It’s amazing how even the simplest of measures never seem to make it out the door.

These paystations are capable of flashing “DON’T PAY” when you don’t need to pay – still undone. Sunday parking is free – but even putting some duct tape over the sign doesn’t seem to be in the cards. Additional “operating hours” signs I and the Parking Task force asked the Town to put up on Lot #3/#5 still undone.

And, of course, we have the strange rewriting of the task forces recommendations – pushing the simple, no-cost, practical out of the way while making it sound like the consensus opinion was to charge MORE for parking – which was definitely not the case.

It’s going to be a tough race – four incumbents with plenty of money and the support of the current entrenched establishment. That said, I think folks will look at the 4 to 8 years of service and wonder why the basics – fiscal sanity and accountability, the Rogers Road mess, inability to work with the BOCC to site the homeless shelter, etc. – linger while these Council members continue to be obsessed by the Lot #5 disaster (a stinking deal our Town should’ve dropped 6 months ago).