CALL IN TOMORROW (TUESDAY) TO GIVE COMMENT ON ETHICS RESOLUTION AT HEARING

Tomorrow/Tuesday, 4-5-22, the Clark County Council will vote on an Ethics Resolution (at the end of the Council meeting) that will practically give all the power to the administrative state by empowering the County Manager regarding the entire Ethics process, make the ethics policies more bureaucratic in nature and ultimately make standards weaker.

Here's the breakdown of this Ethics Resolution:

• It gives ALL THE POWER to the County Manager to select and appoint Ethics Committee, an unelected bureaucrat who has no direct accountability to the voters or citizens of Clark County, who will carry out all the investigating and rulings. NO CITIZENS OF CLARK COUNTY WILL BE ABLE TO BE APART OF THE PROCESS.
• It adopts State Ethics laws from RCW 42 without clarifications or further directions. RCW is wordy and has many aspects that will not make ethical code clear and understandable. Basically, this will be left to those that are expert at exploiting the bureaucracy and will not empower the average citizen.
• They are striking a portion of the current ethics review which I submitted a complaint which will weaken ethical standards (there's nothing similar in the RCW 42) so Councilors will be allowed to manipulate and mislead the public about county business matters with impunity. Why are they removing this?

VOTE NO ON THIS ETHICS RESOLUTION...

Make the following changes:

• County Council Members should appoint and select the committee members, not the County Manager. The County Manager will already be managing the office of Ethics so don't put all the power that one person's hands.
• Put in conditions or ways to remove the committee members and put clearer restrictions on political involvement, affiliation or support.
• Include the current ethics standards already adopted without removing restrictions on misleading the public.
• Write our own ethics standards, borrow some from the State, but simplify complicated RCW's to be more understandable and user friendly to employees and citizens.

The Public Hearing for the Ethics Resolution will be at the very end of the 10am County Council Meeting.

Call in tomorrow/Tuesday. The meeting starts at 10am

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There will be a separate time towards the end of the CC meeting regarding public comment for the Ethics Resolution

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Parable of the Talents teaches us that God hates it when we do nothing. When fear of failure, loss and ridicule (losing friends or family) holds us back from faithful action and risk then God is not pleased with us.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, say wrong words. God teaches to be more afraid of doing nothing and saying nothing because that will ultimately lead us to a place of nothingness.

Grace is sufficient, be ready to say sorry, to listen to the Spirit and be corrected & challenged. For God has a plan for our missteps as well as our failures & successes.

Fear not of making mistakes or being wrong or wronged. Be more afraid of doing nothing on God’s behalf.

I will not fear the mistakes I might make or being unpopular with some. I will fear the Lord and the trap of doing nothing on His behalf. Peter couldn’t sit still when he saw Jesus walking on the water and got out on the water to walk to Jesus even though he belonged more in the boat… but thank God he did. Mans place isn’t to walk on water but Jesus welcomed the faith-filled courage to try.

God doesn’t need cowards. He wants warriors. God calls us out of cowardice and into courage. He tells warriors “fear not.” He tells cowards who ignore His call, “Away from me you wicked & lazy servant.”

Matthew 25:14-30 & Matthew 14:22-33

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