Promises, Promises....The Band Plays On

It is a new year with a new mayor. There were many, many promises during his campaign, so now what is Mayor Green going to do to deliver on these many promises? Our Mayor's Report has been turned into a partisan, post-election reiteration of election promises posted here on a revised Township webpage. (Why are we using this 10 year old Rick Green photo by the way? Is there something wrong with aging? It is natural man.) The new year has brought no plans from the mayor on how he will delivery (or even a plan to deliver) on the promises. The local media have not interviewed him to get him on the record, but that is no surprise given the "editor in pocket" comments that have been flying around and overheard.

A HUGE bone of contention for Mayor Rick Green was the Redwoods Golf Course and Bedford House Restaurant purchases by the TOL. Councillor Kim Richter also harped on this all of last year. So, where is Richter's motion to sell off these Township assets and Mayor Green's wagging head to this plan? You hold the keys to these properties so to speak Mr. Mayor, so what are you going to do now? Councillor Richter has been seen walking in step with the mayor, so where is her verbose Notice of Motion on this topic? Maybe we can help her out with this?

Whereas:

1. The Township of Langley is in dire straights because it is politically expedient to tout this line or, "the sky is falling down".
2. That a three year zero-based budget was always a pipe dream and the good mayor failed to do his homework during his long campaign
3. The mayor and I speak in tandem and he borrowed my platform and foiled my bid for mayor in the 2008 campaign
4. I'm going to use my phone to dial for dollars to mount a 2011 mayoral campaign after backing down 3 times
5. The mayor needs me to file motions to promote our agenda
6. All of our collective business wisdom hasn't resulted in any tangible and detailed plans and nor actions
7. (enter weekly shopping list and CBC News Headlines here to make this more verbose and me to get more air time)
   

Now therefore be it resolved that:

1. We not acknowledge the wisdom of former mayor and the other councillors, but we act quietly.
2. That the Township sell off this golf course and restaurant forthwith, forever snuffing out the possibilities of a Rick Green Invitational Golf Tournament and Prime Rib dinner with Yorkshire Pudding to follow.
3. That we use the proceeds of this sale to create the Ricky Zero Based Budget Bail Out Fund.
4. That we then credit the Finance Committee of the Chosen with saving the Township from all manners of harm, tax increases, alternating closed TOL facilities and banishment of toilet tissue from all TOL flush facilities.

Do I have a seconder?