The Tacoma Weekly is reporting some interesting discussion by City of Tacoma leaders as they consider the various requests by Ruston's current council for the larger city to provide more and more municipal services. Tacoma Council Member Ladenburg called out "the elephant in the room", noting that annexation of Ruston would need to be discussed at some point.
Sounds like the warning some Ruston residents have been making for a few years now. Any thoughts on where that tipping point is? Are we close now? What direction do you think our council should head on this issue?
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What's the point in being on a council for a town you represent if you only want to annex to a larger city? Get off of the council if you are not looking out for the best interests of your town you pompus jerks.
I'm pretty sure that was a TACOMA council member that said that. Even then, maybe annexation IS looking out for the best interests of the town (especially considering the current state of affairs) . . . or maybe it's not. I really have no idea, and neither do you or anyone else until it is discussed an evaluated.
It has been the intent of this group to annex to Tacoma all along. No surprise there regardless of the insincere assertions of the council and their supporters. There is the matter of those assertions being on tape to prove that they are liars.
It will be up to the rest of us to keep watch on them to see who benefits monetarily so the charges can be filed on the correct perpetrators.
I don’t agree that every contingency has to be evaluated. There are some basic core values that are foundational to ethical conduct in elected office. The most important one is a duty to protect and serve the entity that elected you. If you spend all your time evaluating ways to end (kill, dissolve, whatever) the community you serve, you directly contradict your oath of office.
The option of annexation should only be “evaluated” if you are on the verge of collapse. Ruston is well past that crisis now – with a professional financial study to confirm the obvious. We’ve made it past the lean years; now careful management can prepare us for a sustainable, vibrant future.
Rather than “study” ways to walk away from our heritage, our time would be better spent assessing how to best serve our citizens. If there is any area lacking, find the best way to provide that service within the framework we have. We all moved into Ruston – not Tacoma. We have all the urban perks with the benefits of a small town. If we walk away from that, we never get it back
It seems to me that one of the main things this group has been really making an effort on is the fact that Ruston has celebrated its Centennial. I would hate to be the parents of these people if your answer is "once they reach 100 we need to put them down". Why would anyone want to see the end of an era with what Ruston has survived all these years. It's rather amazing don't you think? This poor little town that survived the closing of the smelter, when everyone thought it would die then. It has survived so many awful things and is still shining, and all it is going to take now are some stupid, egostistical people to put an end to a town that has survived so much and is only on its way to seeing a future that is well deserved. What is the purpose of spending time, effort (80 hrs from Pt. Ruston), and money on signs welcoming the public to Ruston? With all that has been written about Ruston.... being the angriest little town in Washington, no sign is going to bring them here. If they were to hear how the town is coming together to do the BEST for the town AND its citizens, maybe this sign escapade wouldn't be leaving such a nasty taste in my mouth.
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