This is not the first time I’m disappointed in Mayor Seth Fleetwood. He has let the citizens of Bellingham down in so many ways. 

Have to say I’m with the mayor on this one.    I worked for a very abusive,  bullying head nurse at a Seattle hospital many years ago;  the entire staff protested,  but they wouldn’t fire the nurse-manager,  to whom they were beholden.    She would mosey out onto the floor and insult nurses in front of patients.    Sounds just like Lev and company here.     The hospital hired a group of psychologists to have meetings between her and the other RN’s,  (kumbaya didn’t work,  as she was a powermonger);    ultimately the only thing that worked was all staff resigning.    I may have my disagreements with this mayor over his lack of stopping teardowns of historic homes in my neighborhood,   but I’m with him.     Lev may have the legal high ground,  but Fleetwood and the union have the moral one.

Wow! Pretty wild stuff in this scenic little  town. Conflict of interest is no good. What’s the old joke about government - “It’s like a septic tank, the big chunks always manage to float to the top!” LoL!

Having worked on the public broadband issues for years, and done many public record requests, I can tell you that the COB is not transperant. On top of that James has been gunning for a judge position for years and apparently Seth will help him get it any way he can. The COB does not believe in the rule of law. I have had many issues getting accurate public records from the COB and schools as well. As Angelo says, “It’s like a septic tank, the big chunks always manage to float to the top!”

Also, why are they spending time of this when we still have a homelessness crisis, broadband access crisis, food security crisis, housing crisis, poverty crisis and more? Shouldn’t our mayor and staff be helping convert abandoned buildings for use by the homeless, etc.? Just look at broadband, the COB sat on an entire existing public fiber-optic network througout a pandemic. I literally saw teachers cry over how their students chouldn’t participate via Zoom because of inadequate broadband connections. We offered to hook the gear up for them, but the COB sat on it instead or worse. The overpriced wireless solutions they bought were virtually worthless and the low-income connections they subsidized were even worse. Yet the entire time they had an existing fiber network they could have let the public use! Guess James and Seth’s beef with another member of the upper echelon must have been more important to them. 

Thanks for this good news, John. And thank goodness for the Superior Court. I maintain Mayor Fleetwood has from the outset of his tenure aligned with political and cultural agendas rather than serve the welfare of Bellingham citizens. May the court system prevail and direct remediation and consequences that serve the well-being of our city.

Well, call me a fence sitter, but I sense that there’s a lot more to this story than we’ve gotten thus far.