I hope no one thinks that this vote will change whether we have an elected mayor.  Reorganization will not be on the ballot; just reclassification. There is no question that Port Angeles will continue to have a council of seven members, electing the mayor from their number every other year.   If you have heard otherwise, you have been misinformed. 

There seems to be an idea that we can petition to elect an all-new Council.  The law does not grant us that power. Democracy does not mean every thing is up for an initiative vote.   The law says that to choose Council's members, we use elections; to dismiss them, we use recall.

It is certain that one pro-fluoridation member of Council, Cherie Kidd, will leave at the end of 2017, due to term limits. The three remaining proponents of fluoridation have announced their intentions not to run for re-election in 2017.    

So, please, anyone: what is the point?