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Originally Posted by Regorium
The writing style, for one. It's written for a 10th grade reading level, which is likely to help his audience.
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All daily newspapers are written for a grade 10 reading level. That's what they teach in journalism school. But whatever.
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Originally Posted by Regorium
Second, I have no problem with the assertion that Nenshi is a poor meeting chair. However, I have a huge problem with the assertion that it's somehow a scandal or boondoggle.
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If they have to bring in a facilitator for 170K a year, yes it's a scandal or boondogle. Every other council has managed to get by without one.
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Originally Posted by Regorium
I can totally see how Nenshi is a poor facilitator, because even though he is nearly 100% correct, it is hard for him to stop without other people agreeing with him or at least seeing his side. This is a hopeless endeavour when you have people like Sean Chu, who doesn't even read the council material, much less understand and critically form an opinion on it.
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So you're saying he's poorly suited to chairing meetings because he's almost always right. Seriously? There have always been councilors who are dumb, stubborn, and don't read the material or understand it. Duerr and Bronconnier had to deal with them too. You think Ric McIver was a treat to work with? This is nothing new.
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Originally Posted by Regorium
Perhaps we do need a meeting chair, someone whose sole duty is to keep the meeting effective and without bias. Is there something so scandalous about this? Maybe Woolley should be the meeting chair, saving us $170,000 a year, AND we get good meetings.
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Facilitating council meetings is
one of the core duties of the mayor. Yes, it requires a specific skill set. So does understanding budgets and setting priorities. But a mayor doesn't get to opt out of those duties just because he finds them difficult.
So either Nenshi doesn't want to learn one of the core duties of his role, or he's temperamentally unsuited to one of the core duties of his role. Either way, it doesn't look good on him.