City Council Agenda Packets

I don’t know how many of you in Ogden City are aware of it, but the City has been posting complete packages of the weekly City Council Meeting/Work Session agendas, including proposed ordinances in their entirety, lengthy though they may be.

One thing that worries me since this began is a lot of said proposed ordinances come through in seemingly rough draft form, with much vagueness and unclear wording included in a proposed ordinance that is supposed to be ready for Council approval or disapproval … and in the end it seems quite a few of these rough draft ordinance proposals get voted on based on somebody verbally explaining what is intended, without the actual verbiage being in place to specify the true meaning of the document. 

This leaves room for later speculation and argument based on the lack of clarity of the document or specificities needed to address a certain aspect of the issue affected by the ordinance.  

 If elected I would propose a thorough reading of all proposed ordinances with the intent of discovering these inconsistencies that need to be rectified, clarifications that need to be made and contingencies that need to be covered … and send the document back for revision.