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Charter Commission Issues <br />Has Brian been advised regarding the effect of his behavior on others? <br />Mayor, Reyes-Johnson, Zikmund, Riggs (publicly and privately), Beer, Council <br /> <br />Has Jonathan been advised regarding the effect of his behavior on others? <br />Riggs (publicly and privately), Mayor, Zikmund <br /> <br />Questions <br />Why did Marissa resign? <br />Why is Brooks going to resign and unwilling to meet with Brian and Jonathan? <br />Why (likely) is Justin Klander going to resign? <br />Why did Scott and I recommend and continue to recommend change is needed? <br />Why does the commission experience constant turnover sans Brian and Jonathan? <br />Why did Brian refuse to meet with Marissa? <br /> <br />Behavior <br />Both Jonathan and Brian can be extremely polite, helpful and courteous – UNTIL – you challenge them. At that point they become argumentative, condescending, demeaning and absolutely <br /> astringent. <br />Both Jonathan and Brian mire themselves in minutia, process and formality; all in extreme levels. The likelihood of them changing their behavior is extremely remote. <br />Both are adamantly opposed and extremely argumentative on having Riggs doing any drafting of charter language – they want to do all the drafting. <br />If simplicity of language is goal, will not occur until Riggs starts drafting. <br /> <br />Future Membership <br /> I was able to retain Marissa and recruit Brooks. I was not able to recruit Barb Renshaw or Stacy Waltz. I have no one else on my list <br />Gary was able to recruit Justin Klander but no others. These three represented the next generation/future/leadership of Mounds View and all have or will be leaving. <br /> <br />Where do we go from here? <br /> There is an immediate need to fill Reyes-Johnson spot and likely need to fill one or two more. <br />Worst case scenario – we are down 4 members. Likely scenario – 3. Best case 2 <br />Highly likely Brian has or will be recruiting Bill Doty and possible that Bill Mori or others may come back. <br />Possibility that Brandon Clawson, another future leader may walk away as he mumbled to both me and Riggs that night and publicly expressed frustration on “what is going on here”. <br />If 3 or 4 vacancies, unlikely the combination of Brian and Jonathan will be able to fill those four seats and while the Commission can meet and may have a quorum, per Riggs and in reference <br /> to his reference to the AG opinion, they cannot “rule” or make “recommendation” on actual Charter Changes until a full complement of members is achieved, thus – absent this they are <br /> unable to do anything. <br />Similarly, unlikely that as long as they are both on commission, we will be unable to recruit members such as Marissa, Justin and Brooks who simply will walk away before confronting <br /> as they are not interested in taking on the beast, willing to serve and help but unwilling to tolerate the demonstrated behaviors.