For a city that prides itself on transparency, last week’s decision to appoint members of the public to the Morgan Hill Downtown Economic Development Corporation without an application process, sends the wrong message.
The city council’s list of goals, strategies and policies for 2012 look more like a list of chores that have to be accomplished than a lofty, ideal-laden tally of dreams or ambitions.
Mayor Steve Tate’s sixth annual “State of the City” address touched on a little bit of the good and the bad from 2011, while urging the public and city officials to stay engaged in local government and community affairs this year.