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By SCOTT CARLSON . public improvements,"Bruton
Staff Writer observed."I think that causes con-
It wasn't the kind of speech that fusion not only for the public but
was designed to end his term of for the city staff.
office in glorious.fashion.
But after sit- "Secondly,I think there has
tin throw h an- been a tendency to be indecisive,"
other in the,nev- Bruton continued."There are an
a
;:.: er-ending series awful lot of matters that have
4,.. of lengthy been reconsidered an awful lot of
Ma lewood citytimes.I'm not saying you don't
council meetins recognize mistakes and go back
and correct them,"he added."But
last Thursday, If you do that too often you raise
outgoing Mayor the question of whether you ade-
farewe Bruton's quatelyconsidered them(the first
. farewell corn- time)"me)"
• ments seemed
Carlson very appropri- In the past three years the coun-
ate,in my opin- cil has hashed and re-hashed such
ion. issues as the rezoning of Beam
"ON A NUMBER of occasions Avenue,the water system,North-
I've stressed the importance of east roads and now the develop-
what I think we should be sitting ment in the Sterling Avenue area.
down and looking at,what it is OF COURSE,a city doing from a broad perspec- council has
tive,"Bruton began.Thatincludes a lot of tough decisions to make
planning for signs,streets and and nobody,I believe,would con-
storm sewers,he added. tend that the decisions come easi-
ly.
Bruton continued that the coun-
cil should be making some basic tingof itemsnant the delays
put
decisions and pursuing them. city council
agenda time after time,I believe,
"I feel to some extent that the only makes that job more diff i-
council has tended to be inconsist- cult.And who should know better
ent in how they have proceeded on than a mayor who has lived
approving signs and authorizing through all of the proceedings?