During council comments Monday evening, alderman Kristi Kendrick said she actually had a 10-minute speech prepared, “but I am too tired to go through all of it. I’m tired of fighting.”
She went on to stress three points. First, she said she was shocked to learn that during the two recent meetings she missed council had, in a minority vote, overruled decisions by the Planning Commission on Conditional Use Permits. “Why do we have a Planning Commission?” she asked.
She also said she “was appalled by a snarky email” from City Clerk/Treasurer Ann Armstrong to Planning commissioner Abbey Abbey, and pointed out that council did not have the courtesy to read her carefully prepared statement on Conditional Use Permits at the previous meeting when the issue was being discussed. She called it “extremely petty.”
She emphasized she wanted the decision about CUPs to be in the hands of the voters, then said, “I personally no longer have the patience for the bullshit and pettiness, and not just from council but from all city government. You will have my resignation this week.”