resolution to common dilemmas

Chino fires back over comments on arsenic treatment …By Cindy Barks …The Daily Courier.. Thursday, March 06, 2008 … PRESCOTT –
A Prescott City Councilman's Tuesday reference to regional cooperation as "horse manure" apparently struck a nerve with the Town of Chino Valley this week. In a strongly-worded letter to Prescott Mayor Jack Wilson, Chino Valley Mayor Karen Fann maintained that while Chino Valley continues to work toward cooperation in the area, "If some of the Prescott council members feel regionalism is 'crap & manure,' we are not sure how we can ever work together as a team and serve our respective communities and taxpayers as we were elected to do." Fann's letter concluded by asking the city to "put the hatchet down and start working together..."
The matter stems from this week's Prescott City Council discussion about the city's attempts to get conditional use permits for the installation of arsenic treatment equipment on Prescott's water wells in Chino Valley.

One would like to feel that our elected officials are above “name calling” and finger-pointing, but alas their only human, just like you and me…?

And just like you and me, they too get a bit “hyper” when they are summarily excluded, demeaned, avoided, rejected and not give a seat at the table.

Some how these same elected officials have no problem excluding you and me from that table, nor setting meeting agendas and times in such a manner as to knowingly preclude our attendance.

What does it take to get us all on the same page and reading the same text so our discussion can be meaningful, productive bringing about positive resolutions to common dilemmas…?