Mayor Frank Mackaman named Sue Ann Kortkamp to complete the remainder of Daryl Dagit’s term with the unanimous consent of the city council tonight. Kortkamp offers valuable experience and would seem to make a fine addition to the council. The Journal Star outlines her qualifications:
Kortkamp previously served on the council from 1983 to 1991 – when the city was under a commission form of government – as commissioner of finance and mayor pro tem. She is executive director of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s Foundation Council, the fund-raising arm for St. Francis and the Children’s Hospital of Illinois, and has experience in strategic planning and budgeting.
This move surprises me. I suspected that Mackaman would leave the decision to the new mayor and the newly elected council. That would seem to be the more democratic way of handling things, but Mackaman didn’t want to pass the buck:
Do I fulfill my statutory responsibility as mayor to name a replacement for council member Dagit, or do I use the convenient circumstance of the approaching election to decline that responsibility, leaving it to the next council?
Mackaman obviously chose to fulfill his statutory responsibility as mayor. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that he did things by the book.
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I’d also like to note that the Journal Star screwed up the title of their article on this breaking news – “TEBBEN’S council replacement named.”
Ummm … Dave Tebben is the former mayor and current mayoral candidate. Daryl Dagit is the council member that resigned and was replaced tonight. The text of the article actually does manage to get it right, but the title is erroneous.
I hope the new owners of the Journal Star leave the Pekin reporting to the Daily Times and have the Journal concentrate on Peoria. They do an absolutely horrible job of reporting on Tazewell County issues. They can’t manage to get even the simplest details correct.
UPDATE (about two minutes after I posted this): The JS has corrected the title without acknowledging their error or apologizing.
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// Apr 10, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Maybe it was a Freudian slip. Maybe they meant “Tebben’s council”, as the possessive, i.e., it’s his council?
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