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Walsh Slams Committee Members, Calls for Resignations

Council Member Nancy Walsh refuted the idea that revisions and changes made to the general plan were not under the control of the City Council.

City Council Member Nancy Walsh fired back at members of the Sierra Madre General Plan Update Committee Tuesday, going so far as to ask for the resignation of no less than two members of the committee and its Chairperson, Denise Delmar. Walsh also said that the committee members “serve at the pleasure of the city council” and “we brought you in and we can take you out.”

Walsh’s prepared speech blasting the members of the committee came in response to the appearance of two committee members before the City Council at the Sept. 27 meeting.

Committee members Colin Braudrick and Debbie Sheridan appeared before the City Council Tuesday to express their disappointment with the way that committee’s chairperson, Denise Delmar, had been treated at the Sept. 13 meeting. 

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Braudrick and Sheridan said they felt Delmar had been mistreated by members of the City Council, particularly Joe Mosca and Nancy Walsh.

Debbie Sheridan closed her comments with a phrase hear from many involved in the General Plan update process: “The general plan is a vision of the residents and a document of the people, not of the City Council.”

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But Walsh did not mince words in her disagreement with this stance. At Tuesday’s meeting she directly refuted this idea.

“Folks in the audience can continue to come to the microphone and repeat ‘the plan is the people’s plan and not the City Council’s’ as you have many times and you will continue to be wrong,” Walsh said, adding, “and after tonight you will just look foolish.”

Walsh also seemed to threaten that members of the General Plan Committee could be removed from their positions by the City Council.

“Looky here,” Walsh said. “Committees and commissions serve at the pleasure of the governing body… And in a very, very basic English, for those who don’t get it, we brought you in and we can take you out.”

Walsh then suggested that Braudrick, Sheridan and Delmar all resign from the General Plan Committee and that Council Member MaryAnn MacGillivray give up her duties as liaison to the committee.

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