This morning's post is done by 'GWS44'.
Today's Glenwood Springs Post Independent announces a deadline of this coming Friday (2 days from now), for 'vacancy' seats on the new Tourism Promotion Board that was just sat last fall.
These three seats have always had a short term in order to work the new board into the designated seating cycles. 'smalltown7' is just not buying the obvious today in the fact that the PI has not announced this publically so the folks could truly be informed.
When City Council chose to heavily seed the new board with the current marketing vendor's Board of Directors last Fall, the public noticed. One of those seeds is Ken Murphy. He sits both Chamber Board of Directors and the new Tourism Board. Ken also was sitting the Financial Advisory Board that has a direct tie to the tourism grant fund requests. Ken is a highly qualified person and well liked in the community.
smalltown7 points out again that this is not a popularity contest and we do not care for the performance of our City Council's oversight.
It is a true conflict of interest for the marketing vendor board of directors to be seating the Tourism Board.
The people's request for a city handled tourism board has seen nothing but purposefully driven friction from the tourism sector that is now having to fund their private businesses themselves and who support giving no public transparency.
Nobody will blink today seeing this from the PI. It's also possible they still just remain asleep at the wheel and missed the signficance of these seats upcoming.
We hope our resident seat in Scott has not already reached a point of being so fed-up with little to no true support (or) is watching the current harm being done to still yet another local family, that he decides this is not worth it and bails. If he does, we hope John Duven steps up now that he has not turned in a petition to take the council seat held by Dave Sturges.
We call out today to 81601 avatars in commentary and ask you to pull in any tourism sector replacement that meets the requirements and at the very least replace Ken Murphy. Steve Beckley needs to move on as well. From the sound of the tourism feedback, his position of trying to force the old status quo that has kept both the rift in the community and our lodging revenues in the tank is just not right for 81601. 'necky', 'remedy'--you both could make this change happen because of how you are placed in the community.
There are terrific replacements on council in Leahy and Gamba. They'll do a great job.
Support Edmonds for Arensman's seat and urge him into the position of Mayor. smalltown could support Arensman if he retains his seat but feels it's time for a clean sweep.
Very disappointing that Dave Sturges has no competition unless what could be a well-supported write-in steps up. The one thing we know historically with Dave is that once he can finally be made to move, he usually follows through. His handling of the chamber situation and his allowing the lack of support to hold the tourism board's positions is deeply concerning.
Applications for the Tourism Board seats are due by this Friday.
Good luck and our thanks, to any qualified individual stepping up.
