Asking the Everett city solicitor for rulings on important matters that concern the City Charter and Ethics should come to an end.
The City Council so relies on the city solicitor’s rulings that her rulings are often becoming de facto laws in contravention of the city charter and of a more simple law – that is- the law of what is right and what is clearly wrong.
Nearly everyone serving on the council understands the $40,000 a year longevity payment to the mayor is a farce and very likely is not allowed.
The city solicitor has ruled it is perfectly legal and OK. This ruling, despite her knowing as a lawyer the language indicates the mayor should be receiving $10,000 per term or $2500 per year – not $40,000.
Such rulings about matters connected to the mayor like an umbilical cord should not be asked of her, given by her or taken as the last word by those who asked.
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