If you have no problem with a mayor who admits that “it’s impossible to do this job right, and hold another job” while he is in fact holding another job, and then asks for a pay raise so he can continue “not doing this job right”, then good for you.

I, however, do have a problem with that.

Think about this yourself, before criticizing the Mayor.

Your Quote: “Seems to me his whining about how busy he is would be a lot easier to take if he gave his other job up BEFORE asking for more money.”

Give us all a break. He’s not whining. He’s being responsible.

So, you’d quit a full-time job in this economy, THEN ask a part-time employer to give you a full-time position? Boy, that is just plain stupid-logic.

If you have a wife and child to feed, you just don’t do risky things like that with your income.

I cannot imagine being without a county and county commissioners and the Sheriff’s Department for law enforcement.
If I have a choice I would live in a good rural community and neighborhood.
Sharon O’Hara

It appears that, separate from any question of suspending the interlocal revenue-sharing (“soft landing”) agreement and annexation of the entire corridor by Port Orchard, the city is going ahead with annexation of the Fred Meyer end of the corridor.

Once this annexation goes through, assuming it does, then the city will have both ends of the corridor within its boundaries. I suppose it can just “munch” from one end or the other as time goes on until it has taken the whole thing.

As for the county’s infrastructure burden, I doubt that anything would happen for quite a while, since the county has little funding and little incentive to put money into an area that the city would then annex and take all the sales tax revenue and part of the property tax revenue. I think the Bethel Corridor will simply develop like Wheaton Way did — a little at a time, whether under the city or county.

Since the city seems willing to toss out the “not like Wheaton Way” plans adopted by the county back in December 2000, I suppose the piecemeal “just like Wheaton Way” development will come after the city annexes it.

Perhaps this piecemeal development is what the owners want. If not, what is the advantage to the owners of being annexed into Port Orchard?

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/nov/11/port-orchard-eye-on-the-bethel-corridor/
You’re right, I need to do a follow up and taker a closer look at the financial implications for both the city and the county. Notice in the article the city would like the county to suspend the revenue sharing agreement it has with all cities in the event of annexation, the purpose of which is to give the county a “soft landing” as it loses funding. Coppola says the trade-off would be, the county would no longer have the burden of developing infrastructure along Bethel Road.

It’s impossible to do this job right, and hold another job.

then why does he still hold another job? Seems to me his whining about how busy he is would be a lot easier to take if he gave his other job up BEFORE asking for more money.

The cost to the taxpayers of putting this to a vote — even when run in conjunction with a regularly scheduled election — is a minimum of about $15,000. That’s money the City can better spend on other things — like parks, public safety, and capital improvements.

…or raising the salary of the “Lord Mayor”.