Would some one please explain - why we have a City Council?

4/6/07
Sun Post - April 5-07, front-page...
'Deed found / Come together'

Reported in Friday's SunPost: Councilman Joe
Anderson says Council can't legislate from the
dais to support the original 2004 Marblehead
developer / city agreement on how homes there
SHALL be built. Lot sizes, heights - etc.
A done-deal in 2004. Right?
Wrong neighbor.
It's New Deal time.
Huh?
It's New Deal Time-Anytime (Open-House in SC People!)
in this our New Order - 'Dealing for Developer Dollars'
because Old Deals here aren't worth the parchment they're
scrawled on as Council instructs us to "Go-Deal-Directly
with the developer." It's just gotten too darn complicated
for Council to Legislate on what was Singed-Off-On
3-years ago. Or maybe ever.

Same-Deal-Different-Day Dept: some on Council vote
a hearty YES to by-pass Past developer / city agreements
regarding Pacific Golf Course's / SC's open-space
protectorate-claus, dating back to even before PGC
existed as our City allows PGC's developer-owner
3 1/2 years and 1000-hours (according to the developer)
to coerce City-Staffers into creating "Brand New Plans"
nullifying existing open-space city-charters.

Obviously the 007 game in town is,
"Who Do We Trust - Today,"
because yesterday's city-contracts are null & void,
subject to Developer-whim's today.

Why even have a city council if they don't support
"our old deals" - then tell us - "Go work it out with the
developer. This new deal is too complicated for us."

But our "old deals" - were "their deals" too - back when.

Just not now.

So - New Rules - city council's Job #1 is:
Play developer go-between - depending on what the next
developer wants today. Regardless of what was signed
off on yesterday.

Civic conundrum: do we pay city council?
Or do the developers?

Seems a fair question, considering our city's New Rules.