Loveland’s renowned Historic Preservation Commission has invited Councilwoman Carol Johnson to cease her role as the Loveland City Council liaison to their commission. You can read the story and see a copy of the letter here.
We believe the Loveland City Council owes the commission members an apology and clarification of the record that Carol Johnson doesn’t speak for the whole council.
The Loveland Historical Preservation Commission has contributed in value millions of dollars of in-kind contributions through their time and resources. Carol Johnson should be humbled by not only the contributions the individual members of the commission have made for so many years before she ever heard of Loveland but also the other resources they leverage into the community through their work to obtain grants and funding from other non-City of Loveland sources for their efforts.
Gene Pielin, Dave Clark and a few others find a political ally in Johnson and are therefore apparently unwilling to correct her bad behavior or even clarify the record that council doesn’t believe the commissioners are who Johnson described.
Carol Johnson needs to understand city resources are not HER contribution but instead that by everyone who pays taxes in Loveland. She is an embarrassment to the community and council. Jan Brown once bragged that she successfully discouraged Johnson’s opponent from running for council thus allowing Johnson to run unopposed.
This kind of behavior needs to be denounced. Whether it was Dave Clark telling Walt Skowron not to Run or Jan Brown also discouraging competition — the consequence of limited choices for the community means people like Carol Johnson can get elected.
Now that the commission has spoken the City Council needs to sanction Johnson by telling her to keep a healthy distance away from productive city volunteers and not to speak for the whole council again without their permission.
The lack of adult supervision here is embarrassing to the city.
Please let everyone know that Carol Johnson’s ticket for this elelction I mean people she is working closely with are:
Dave Clark for mayor
Bob Snyder for council
Jan Brown for council
I agree. Anyone too worried about their political advantages to defend city volunteers from an unstable woman on council doesn’t deserve my vote for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where are your principles people?
I’m embarassed that she presents herself as my representative.
I think the Commission took a very high-road approach in their response; which acknowledges the range of reactions. Their official response was certainly kinder and gentler then perhaps Ms. Johnson deserved.
Treatment of citizen commission members by Council has at times been pretty rude. I recall that a number of another Commission’s members resigned a few years ago claiming rude treatment by the Mayor and Council. They only hear what they want to hear.