Though City Council duties, meetings, committees, and hearings require 45 to 55 hours per week to fulfill, Bend City Councilors are considered volunteers, have no administrative support staff and receive no benefits. The archaic notion of an unpaid mayor and city council is not in step with the times within the paradigm of the exponential […]
Mayor Jim Clinton
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Rogue Wave
Comments by Mayor Clinton bring back Mirror Pond discussion—at least for the time-being
If plotted out, the conversation about what to do about Mirror Pond would probably look something like a wave in the ocean—a community discussion that gathers momentum when one public official or another offers his opinion about whether to maintain the Newport Street Dam, but then quickly crests and dissipates. In May, the conversation about […]
