Do the people who do not have a roof have a clear title? Why not, how can they get it? (Legal services of Florida)

Do they qualify for relief?

Were they in the historical district?

Knowledge and transparency will clear up a lot of things.

A lot of things have been implied and I even saw where some people thought they were discriminated against.

Were they? I doubt it but do not actually know, I certainly hope not.

Until one can teach others what to do and how to do it one is not a leader but an enabler to allow then to cry victim.

Pull others up by showing them, teaching them and we learn ourselves.

Ask and ye shall receive.

I support Mr. Gomez on this, transparency build trust.

This is not a reflection on Ms Debbie but I think for far too long the council has been ineffective and yes many of the people up here lacked the proper guidance and KNOWLEDGE about how to run a municipality.

Can the council learn?

I think some of the citizens did not understand the process for getting SHIP, CDBG funds and perhaps that was never clearly communicated to them. I saw that it took until March to even get the inter local agreement with the county for Ms Nickles to take the application and process them. (tornado recovery) If not for her it would not have been done.

Staff did not seem to either have the time or know how to do it.

Have tasked laid out, a calendar, a leader– communicate. Use email more.
It is very old fashioned to think a meeting is the only place work can be done.

Yes you have the sunshine law and yes a reporter there to expose any thing. That is his job.

Have all the council on an email and get info to them and they should look it over ahead of time including the agenda.
Publish it online for the citizens. Have a place for citizen input.

Training, ask yourself, google it.

The charter spells it out how the government should function. There is supposed to be a balance of power but also a balance of knowledge. I think a big part, looking objectively is the council used to defer too much to the major–let him call all the shots, and they did that, I heard it called the Mayor’s council. It is not

Five heads are better than one. six better, and so on, if they USE them.

The highest paid salaried person is the clerk, she is NOT the town secretary. Is the town clerk in charge of the staff? Elected officials come and go. Century needs some one in charge.

In fact by charter, the council president is supposed to set the agenda FOR the council, not the mayor or the clerk.

Why doesn’t the president to it? Council appoint a treasurer, a secretary etc.

Some of the dysfunction of the town has been directly tied to the dysfunction of the council. Step up to the plate, but not as a yes men but with knowledge, clarity and power for ALL.

Stop the blame game. It is also dysfunction.

(My thought)
But Ms Debbie knows more about running a town that any one who lives here, has served as a mayor, or on the council combined, hands down!!

But yeah get a new accountant also. No doubt, I don’t care who he is friends with. He should be fired.

You guys are a barrel of laughs, you want micro-oversight of a lady that does an excellent job and you trust Hudson with a complete “hands off” approach. I guess it’s true, politics really does seem to suck all of the brains and common sense out of people.