sandy oregon shooting: Why Did It Take City Council Six Meetings and a Public Petition to Install a Simple Crosswalk by the Elementary School?
I’m just sitting here shaking my head after reading about the chaos at last night’s city council meeting. We’ve had three kids nearly hit by cars on Johnson Road this year—one just last week—and the parents have been begging for a basic crosswalk. But no, the council spent six meetings debating it like it was a nuclear power plant permit. Meanwhile, a grandmother brought in a 500-signature petition and finally got them to budge. Common sense, people. If a child is almost flattened in front of the school, you don’t form a committee; you paint some lines and put up a flashing light. Sick of the bureaucracy when we’re supposed to be keeping families safe in Sandy.