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wwkvoter, I know my solution is unrealistic because we can't vote on anyone in office until next year.

All I'm saying is that is does nothing when Solomon and the council keep whining about the last guy and expect people to ignore their own records.

We're looking at tax increases, and we would be anyway. There's no way around it.

But it's insulting to me that these city officials are trying to distract from that truth.

None of what we're facing should be a surprise to them -- they had a hand in causing it.

Yes, I know Avedisian negotiated the contracts; I know he ran the city day-to-day; and I know he proposed tax increases every year -- but the council's job was to review those contracts, oversee city operations, and change and approved those budgets.

When they've been put on the spot about their decisions in the last few months, here's what Solomon and the city council have said:

We didn't read the contracts.

We didn't watch how City Hall was being run.

We passed the budgets he wanted (until 2017 when we passed a budget without a tax increase and left the city millions of dollars in the hole).

These simply aren't the words of the accountable and responsible people they promised to be during the last election.