Leave initiatives alone

I am puzzled as to why the City Council should consider a change to Spokane’s ordinance on initiatives. A couple of years ago, the City Council created a citizen task force that considered the current initiative ordinance and proposed changes. That task force, after many hours of discussion, created a document representative of all the opinions of the citizens on the task force that essentially said don’t change the local initiative ordinance.

The two council members sponsoring the current change in the ordinance claim to be familiar with the task force’s work. However, despite this, they insist that they know better how initiatives should be handled than ordinary citizens. The arrogance of these two newest members of the City Council to think that they know better is unparalleled!

There are more important topics that need to be considered for the betterment of Spokane than a change in the initiative ordinance. City Council should follow the recommendations of the task force that they created and leave the initiative ordinance unchanged.

Carol Cunningham

Spokane