June 19, 2010
Insco Running with a Let’s Comprise Financial Reform Ball
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – City Councilman Jim Insco has received responses from a portion of council members on the proposed timeline for tax reform ordinances. He’s still waiting to hear from others. Contrary to initial reports, Insco declined to take credit for the reshaped tax reform proposals; he did take responsibility for the proposed time lines, however.
Although he gave the proposals to council at the end of Good & Welfare, he called them an assemblage of ideas advanced by other council members and the public during the lengthy financial committee hearing process.
Possessing a rare shoot from the hip style at the meeting, Insco’s passionate concluding speech advocated a call to action (anything but sitting stagnant), even those not spelled out on the paper. Knowing that public sentiment opposes the occupation tax , he took what he felt were the best compromises of, laid them on the table, and asked for feedback from council members, so the body could realign its focus, not stand stationary.
On the phone, he told HNN that many of the city’s problems now and in the past have come from previous council’s declining to vote on tough issues, instead passing them carryover unresolved and mounting in severity and sensitivity to the next elected officials.
He bestowed a legislative touchdown on Finance Committee Chairman Steve Williams for his work during the hearings and committee process. Relating a metaphor to Williams’ days on Marshall’s gridiron , he explained that Williams handed the ball to the council chair to “put in one package” and he’s running with it.
“With a little give and take, we’ll put them together as one and move forward. I think we can be a leader in the state,” Insco stressed.
“There are a lot of positive things happening in our city. All of the problems are not fixed. The streets are not all paved. The drugs aren’t out of here. Not everything is perfect, but we are taking steps,” Insco said. [Still,] these are exciting times for the city.”
He asked that both citizens and the media show a little “patience” as council members determine their positions on the tax reform issues, as presented.
Referring back to his Friday, June 11 remarks on the AM Tom Rotten Show. He explained that he told the host that tax issues would NOT be on council’s agenda, but , due to the direness of the city’s financial state and the fluidity of discussions with other council members, he changed his mind and opted for the last minute Monday night consolidation of proposals with possible up or down vote time lines.
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Insco Running with a Let’s Comprise Financial Reform Ball
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – City Councilman Jim Insco has received responses from a portion of council members on the proposed timeline for tax reform ordinances. He’s still waiting to hear from others. Contrary to initial reports, Insco declined to take credit for the reshaped tax reform proposals; he did take responsibility for the proposed time lines, however.
Although he gave the proposals to council at the end of Good & Welfare, he called them an assemblage of ideas advanced by other council members and the public during the lengthy financial committee hearing process.
Possessing a rare shoot from the hip style at the meeting, Insco’s passionate concluding speech advocated a call to action (anything but sitting stagnant), even those not spelled out on the paper. Knowing that public sentiment opposes the occupation tax , he took what he felt were the best compromises of, laid them on the table, and asked for feedback from council members, so the body could realign its focus, not stand stationary.
On the phone, he told HNN that many of the city’s problems now and in the past have come from previous council’s declining to vote on tough issues, instead passing them carryover unresolved and mounting in severity and sensitivity to the next elected officials.
He bestowed a legislative touchdown on Finance Committee Chairman Steve Williams for his work during the hearings and committee process. Relating a metaphor to Williams’ days on Marshall’s gridiron , he explained that Williams handed the ball to the council chair to “put in one package” and he’s running with it.
“With a little give and take, we’ll put them together as one and move forward. I think we can be a leader in the state,” Insco stressed.
“There are a lot of positive things happening in our city. All of the problems are not fixed. The streets are not all paved. The drugs aren’t out of here. Not everything is perfect, but we are taking steps,” Insco said. [Still,] these are exciting times for the city.”
He asked that both citizens and the media show a little “patience” as council members determine their positions on the tax reform issues, as presented.
Referring back to his Friday, June 11 remarks on the AM Tom Rotten Show. He explained that he told the host that tax issues would NOT be on council’s agenda, but , due to the direness of the city’s financial state and the fluidity of discussions with other council members, he changed his mind and opted for the last minute Monday night consolidation of proposals with possible up or down vote time lines.
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