Here Are Two Samples
Last December, for example, the City Council issued a ruling against overnight street parking by certain oversized vehicles. Eleven months later, it still is not on the books. Last August, the City Council gave a private school on Jefferson Boulevard until Nov. 5 to vacate its premises. With Sundays deadline looming, no action, or discipline, is expected. The school remains in place. These were the kinds of outcomes Edge leaders had in mind when they protested to Mr. LaPointe. For the Parks and Rec Director, this mornings startling announcement marked a sharp reversal of the position he previously had stated insistently several times in public. To the consternation of a parent from the Edge Swim Club at last Monday nights Town Hall meeting, Mr. LaPointe stated unequivocally that the new schedule would take effect on Wednesday morning. He repeated this position on Tuesday afternoon in an interview with thefrontpageonline.com. This afternoon, Mr. LaPointe explained to the newspaper why he reversed himself. Things kept rolling around in my mind, he said. I was thinking of the kids. I wanted to make sure the community was being served. When I thought about the turnaround time, again and again, I felt it was too tight.
Postscript
This was precisely the point Edge leaders have been making to him over the past 9 days. Edge officials complained that the richly detailed new schedule would be harmful to their team, which includes 200 swimmers, and its goals. Presumably the newcomer Royal Swim Team, roughly one-quarter the size of the Edge, was pleased all along to be shoehorned into the already crowded lineup at The Plunge.
