Dear Editor,
I’m sorry: I just don’t get it!
The City of the Village of Clarkston was created by an affirmative vote of the residents in 1992 to adopt a proposed charter, thus creating the municipality we have today.
According to the Preamble, citizens agreed that ‘We’establish this Charter for the City, in order to secure the benefits of local self government?.?
The charter carried over ‘all valid ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations? which were in effect at the time of the passage of the charter. Additional ordinances and resolutions have been added since 1992.
These sure seem like the ‘laws? of our little city.
But, according to some city council members, and the city attorney, these laws may be followed in a manner which and when the city council sees fit.
I don’t understand.
If these were the laws voted into existence by city residents, or by their elected representatives, why aren’t they being enforced?
We are a country of law; it helps us proceed with our lives in an orderly way. If laws can be ‘selectively? followed by our government, then what is there to keep us from deciding what laws we want to follow? What happens to order?
I sure do hope that our city leaders can get it straight: laws are made to be followed, not broken!
Tom Stone
Clarkston