Luis has a point. It is not really the job of the town council to do all the paperwork involved in running the town. The burden for posting times and dates is on the clerk unless she delegates it to someone else. She needs to make sure the designated one does the job, but actually doing the job is not the job of the town council. They obviously need to let her know if there’s a change and make certain that she notifies everyone according to the law. The town council’s job is to decide what courses of action need to be taken in the broad sense.

The same applies to employees responsible for assorted departments. Water department needs to make sure water is dependably delivered and safe to drink. They need to make sure that the water is measured so the people who use it pay appropriately. The gas department needs to do the same thing: look out for leaks, make sure users are billed appropriately, make emergency repairs as needed, install new lines as needed, replace equipment that needs to be replaced. They need to make certain that they plan ahead for problems that may come up. Each one of them does.

Each department needs to make certain they inform their overseers what their budget needs to be — how much it’s going to cost them to operate properly. That’s one of the decisions that the town council needs to deal with, what kind of a budget to have, do they have enough money coming in? Do they need to raise rates? if so, how exactly? Is there something they need to order now before it becomes critically missing later?

If any of them try to wear too many hats, do too many jobs, you can be certain they will miss something because they were too busy with something else or because someone thought that somebody else was going to do it. So people need to stay in their own lane have a particular, specified , designated job that they worry about and do it very carefully. Keep the house in order.

That’s why Luis is being reasonable when he says he’s not going to try to to do everything himself or not expect the counsel to. He might be better served wording it more diplomatically, but the basic idea is sound.

David for many hands making light work

On this week’s episode, will Little Louis get put in time out for not following the rules?
Will his tantrums continue because he’s being required to follow the law or will he gain control of himself and follow the simple rules to present an appearance of professionalism?
Will the town ONCE AGAIN be before a grand jury for sunshine laws?
Will the State of Florida become involved?
Will the charter finally be revoked?

Seriously though, if you can’t be trusted to do even the simplest things, like placing a correct council meeting advertisement on a board so the taxpayers can have accurate information…..how are you going to be in charge of major (or even minor) decisions regarding their hard earned money? The taxpayers have a right to leadership that understands the reasons for the rules and sets an example by following them, not someone who has a temper tantrum when they are called on it for not doing things right. You’d think by now you could get at least the simple things right.

YET. !!

He does look somewhat important there in his fine clothing and gold doo-dads.
C’mon man, and this is for Real, the Sunshine Laws are in place for a REASON and you can’t just ignore them no matter how important you feel, and that’s not a lie, it’s the truth.