photo Phil Gilston
The Scuttlebutt:
Nice to stroll through St Helens the other day...talk to some of y'all.
Lemme tell ya...Y'all seemed pissed.
Couple items:
- City Attorney Richard Appichello is on administrative leave. People were wondering why. Publically, no one downtown seems to want to go on record about it.
- Greg Jenks from the Port of St. Helens is also on Administrative leave. Hmmm...does one have anything to do with the other? One fella thought it didn't.
- Everyone on the Fireworks Committee resigned (including Jimmie & Diane Dillard and Donna Smith). One person theorized that they were not being allowed to make any meaningful decisions. The rumor is that they are in search of a new 501c-3 non-profit umbrella to get out from under the city boys.
Ok, in terms of fireworks--a good metaphor, I think--here are some folks donating time in a committee (some of them, donating more than 20 years of their own time organizing the St. Helens 4th of July) working throughout the year collecting money and donations, organizing the event, and suddenly being told that they don't have any authority. All because they are using the Columbia Foundation's 501c-3?
So...what does the city have to do with The Columbia Foundation?
And why, all-of-a-sudden, have things changed?
WTF? people seem to be askin' me. WTF? indeed. Nice to be back. I'm keepin' my eyes open.
-Tom
4 comments:
Nice house....
:-)
actually, it's a church here in St Helens, Oregon
:^)
Hello to y'all in Italy!
The City has the money in their "own" foundation. They told the Fireworks Committee, that even though the committee collected the money, the City controlled it.
This did not sit well with them.
I suspect that the city would probably let them have what they want, but the Committee was in no mood to try and beg the city for permission to spend their own money.
It used to be the episcopal church... now, I am not sure what it is.
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